Just when you thought you heard it all - "DHS is attacking Jesus by mentioning right wing threats!"

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I have to admit that after I first read the Department of Homeland Security’s report “Rightwing Extremism: Current Economic and Political Climate Fueling Resurgence in Radicalization and Recruitment” on Monday, I immediately forgot about it because it was of no use to me.

While I am always on the look-out for things demonstrating the extremism of the Religious Right, this report focused solely on violent racist and anti-government groups and since we tend not to cover such groups here, the report had little to offer.

Or so I thought. As it turns out, the report was apparently exactly about the Religious Right groups we follow here … or at least that is what Religious Right groups are insisting...

The AFA’s Don Wildmon is outraged about the whole thing, but particularly upset about the reports supposed attacks on veterans:

"They say watch these soldiers coming home from Iraq because they could turn out to be terrorists in our own country," Wildmon notes. "These are kids basically who have gone over there and risked their lives -- and many of them have given their lives -- and here we put out a nine-page report from Homeland Security saying, 'Watch these soldiers that come home because they could be possible terrorists in their own country.'

But in terms of sheer inanity and hyperbole, I doubt that anything can top this statement from Janice Crouse of Concerned Women for America:

"Here you have a group of people who are in charge of Homeland Security portraying conservative Christian people as people the nation really needs to be afraid of," notes Crouse. "It's so alarmist. It's spreading fear and suspicion, and it's demonizing those of us who hold true traditional values."

Crouse tells OneNewsNow the report is a direct attack on the church. " a direct assault on the basic principles of religious beliefs that have been here since the time of Christ," she argues. "These are the things that Christ died on the cross for."

Did anyone on the Right even bother to read the report before spouting off about it? It seems doubtful because presumably they wouldn’t be blasting a report aimed at violent racist extremists as an attack on “traditional values” and Christianity. Do the basic tenets of Christianity and traditional values now incorporate ideologically driven terrorism and violence?

http://rightwingwatch.org/content/dhs-report-attack-christ

[SoxFan]

1. Reality Check

The second-worst terrorist attack in US history was carried out by a disgruntled Gulf War veteran with extreme right wing views.

But I guess Timothy McVeigh was just a misunderstood, God-fearing Christian, right?