Consider the movies and dramas that make Christians the bad guys. Even after 9-11, a Law and Order episode made a Christian group a terrorist training school for kids: Angelgrove .
. . . "But the probe leads the detectives to the victim's troubled son and his ties to a fanatic religious group. " Having seen this drama, I recall Jack McCoy's final words were approximately, "They have their fanatics and we have ours". The line posited a moral equivalence of Muslims and Christians
Quotes from this drama:
"The reports are multiplying — the gunman who killed ten people in Roseburg, Ore., yesterday did, in fact, target Christians during his shooting spree. The brother of victim Autumn Vicari told NBC News that the shooter told his victims to stand and asked them whether they were Christians. If they said “yes,” he shot them in the head. “If they said ‘other’ or didn’t answer, they were shot elsewhere in the body, usually the leg.” A similar report came from student Kortney Moore, who was on the scene.
" With Christians explicitly targeted for mass murder, are we now going to launch a round of anguished soul-searching about anti-Christian rhetoric? Will we cleanse political discourse of anti-Christian expression? Will militant, angry atheists be universally shamed into silence?" . . .
"But if the gunman had asked Muslims to stand before shooting them, what would the conversation look like today? After all, we’re still talking about the brief detention of a young Muslim student who made a clock look like a bomb. Will we talk about anti-Christian bigotry after Roseburg as much as we discussed “Islamophobia” after Ahmed? I doubt it." . . .
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