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Originally Posted by Flabbibulin
Interesting response, and you listed a few very reprehensible things, but once again, please consider a little context here. The topic here is terrorism (targeting of civilians), not extremism. I am not interested in arguing on whether Christians are extreme, or promote extremism.
Although yes, the bombing of random civilians in an abortion clinic would be considered an act of terrorism. Uganda's anti-gay legislation is not an example of an act of terrorism. I am not familiar with your reference to the killing of media members, but that sounds more like murder, not terrorism?
I'll abandon this tangent now so the thread isn't derailed any further.
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It really depends on how you define terrorism. If you simply define it as blowing stuff up or killing lots of people at a time, then no those examples don't work. If you use the actual definition of terrorism which is "The use of violence and intimidation in the pursuit of political aims," then those examples certainly fall under the umbrella.
Uganda's legislation, in my opinion, is a prime example of state terrorism. The killing of members of the media by Christians (i.e. Alan Berg) was done to intimidate other media members, so I would consider that terrorism as well.