Was/is the Klan a domestic Christian terrorist group?

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21. I voted no because they are not particularly Christian.

Despite all the crosses. Just white supremacist terrorists.

Edit: further reasoning after reading responses. I do not mean that they were not "real Christians" or that "real Christians" would not be terrorists. Most of them probably were Christians, though I would bet there were some closet atheists and agnostics. I am saying that what distinguished and motivated them was white supremacism, along antisemitism and anti-Catholicism. It is one thing to characterize a group as "Christian" or "Muslim" and another to concede that their members are mostly or all "Christian" or "Muslim" since the first characterization implies that they are representative of the larger group. The United Methodist Church is a Methodist group. A club of Methodist business proprietors is not a "Methodist group" in the same sense in that many Methodists are not business proprietors. In that case, though, no harm is done by overlooking the distinction. When we characterize a terrorist group or a criminal conspiracy as though its members were representative of the religious or ethnic group, harm is done and should be avoided.