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Originally Posted by JohnnyD
He wasn't implying that there were. I think the intention is that there could possibly exist a difference between religious fanatics and terrorists.
Which is also what I have been saying. I specifically said that terrorism is not an accurate description of Hasan's motives. I attributed it to "Jihadism" which non-Jihadists would probably refer to as religious fanaticism.
No one was screaming terrorists when abortion clinics were getting bombed. Or did not enough people die in those incidents?
Although no one was "screaming" terrorists, the abortion clinic bombings have been defined by many as terrorism. Even Wikipedia defines it as a form of terrorism.
Or is it murder if you kill because of Christian beliefs, but terrorism when you kill due to Islamic beliefs?
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If it's murder, it's murder in both cases. The motivation for the murders is probably different. As far as anti-abortion violence, the main animous seems to be a loathing for the killing of what is considered to be innocent human life, innocent babies. I think that nine such anti-abortion murders have occured since 1993. Not all, probably the minority, were attributed to religion. As horrible as these have been, I don't think they evoked a national security threat. Jihad against the West seems to be a much different, much larger, greatly more dangerous phenomenon. And it is specifically an Islamic religious phenomenon.