{"id":1668,"date":"2017-05-30T12:19:17","date_gmt":"2017-05-30T16:19:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/attheintersectionoffaithandculture\/?p=1668"},"modified":"2017-05-30T12:35:19","modified_gmt":"2017-05-30T16:35:19","slug":"white-supremacist-attack-portland-fake-news-vs-clear-thinking-jeremy-christian","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/attheintersectionoffaithandculture\/2017\/05\/white-supremacist-attack-portland-fake-news-vs-clear-thinking-jeremy-christian.html","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;White Supremacist&#8221; Attack in Portland?! Fake News vs. Clear Thinking on Jeremy Christian"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Over the Memorial Day weekend, Jeremy Joseph Christian, 35, boarded the MAX train in Portland, Oregon and harassed two young women who, reportedly, were in Islamic attire. Three other men, who are now being hailed as heroes, came to their defense.<\/p>\n<p>Christian killed two of them by slashing their throats. The third man, who was also stabbed, sustained non-life threatening wounds.<\/p>\n<p>The alleged murderer is now being described as a \u201cknown \u2018white supremacist\u2019\u201d and his crime a \u201chate crime\u201d or \u201canti-Muslim\u201d attack.<\/p>\n<p>Both descriptions further blacken the collective eye of the journalist class, thus reminding us as to why it richly deserves the \u201cFake News\u201d moniker that now attaches to it.<\/p>\n<p>First, as far as we know at this moment, there are no videos, audios, or even photographs of the Portland crime. This in itself, in this day and age, though not necessarily suspicious, is certainly peculiar. It\u2019s even more peculiar when it is considered that there <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bing.com\/videos\/search?q=portland+attack&amp;view=detail&amp;mid=DC38491D8146841BBD56DC38491D8146841BBD56&amp;FORM=EWREVC&amp;mmscn=wnmp&amp;ru=%2fsearch%3fq%3dportland%2battack\">is video<\/a><\/em> of Christian on this same train ranting and raving just one day prior to the event in question.<\/p>\n<p>On this video, Christian is indeed seen and heard saying something both derogatory and crass about Muslims.\u00a0 However, in one and the same breath, this \u201cIslamophobe\u201d is seen and heard saying derogatory and crass things about Jews and Christians as well:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cF**k Christians, f**k Jews, f**k Muslims!\u201d Christian shouts.<\/p>\n<p>On his Facebook <a href=\"http:\/\/www.portlandmercury.com\/blogtown\/2017\/05\/27\/19041594\/suspect-in-portland-hate-crime-murders-is-a-known-white-supremacist\">wall<\/a>, Christian called for a \u201cMonotheist Holocaust,\u201d the \u201cFinal Solution to the Monotheist Question.\u201d He wrote that he wants to \u201cput an end to the Monotheist Question.\u00a0 All Zionist Jews, All Christians who do not follow Christ\u2019s teaching of Love, Charity, and Forgiveness And All Jihadi Muslims are going to Madagascar or the Ovens\/FEMA Camps!!!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In another post, he wrote: \u201cI want a job in Norway cutting off the heads of people that Circumsize Babies\u2026Like if you agree!!!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Judging from what we know, it would seem that Christian equally disdains all three of the Earth\u2019s great monotheistic traditions, or at least those of their forms that Christian takes to be their perversions (<em>Zionist <\/em>Judaism, <em>Jihadi <\/em>Islam, Christians <em>who do not <\/em>follow Christ).\u00a0 Police have confirmed that Christian was hardly the obsessed \u201cIslamophobe\u201d that the media is making him out to be, instead ranting about all sorts of matters.<\/p>\n<p>Yet the Christophobes in the media, always on the hunt for the Big, Bad White Supremacist\u2014who they want for the public to at least subconsciously associate with Christianity\u2014ignore Christian\u2019s <em>\u201cChristophobia<\/em>\u201d to make it sound as if he has a singular obsession with Muslims.<\/p>\n<p>The secular atheists in the media ignore Christian\u2019s own atheism.\u00a0 In fact, Christian sounds like Richard Dawkins, Sam Harris, Bill Maher, or any number of other contemporary atheists insofar as he asserts: \u201cI would really prefer not to have live with monotheists and various other moronic groups of ignorant cretins that foment hate in the name of Tetragrammaton\/Yaheh\/Allah and threaten to Destroy the world with their unmatched incompetence\u2026.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Second, predictably, such organizations as the Council on Islamic-American Relations (CAIR) and its propagandists in the left-wing media have tried linking this attack with President Trump.\u00a0 This is preposterous and should remind all Americans of conscience and decency that the left and those racial, ethnic, and religious supremacist organizations with which it allies are motivated by, not truth and good faith, but a desire for ideological domination.<\/p>\n<p>Christian was a convicted criminal.\u00a0 His record includes convictions for robbery, kidnapping, and weapons.\u00a0 He was, indeed, a bad seed. \u00a0His Facebook rants reveal that he was as well erratic. A one-time self-identified backer of Bernie Sanders, Christian called for the death of Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump supporters. After Clinton won her party\u2019s nomination, Christian endorsed Jill Stein.\u00a0 Then, after Trump was elected President, he threw in behind Trump\u2014or so he said.<\/p>\n<p>Still, his harassment of Trump supporters didn\u2019t stop.\u00a0 Apparently, it got so bad that some Trump supporters contacted the local police about Christian. The police, though, for whatever reasons, were unresponsive.<\/p>\n<p>Third, I have been looking high and low for a detailed account of what exactly occurred between Christian and the men who are now being hailed as \u201cheroes.\u201d\u00a0 Thus far, I have not been able to find one.\u00a0 If they <em>verbally<\/em> reproached him, imploring Christian to desist his harassment of the two female, (reportedly) Islamic passengers, then Christian is indeed guilty of double murder and battery. If, however, the men who may very well have been the good Samaritans that they are being depicted as, physically besieged him in an attempt to get him to stop running his mouth, then the killing would be one of self-defense, for Christian was not physically harming anyone at the time that the men, somehow, intervened.<\/p>\n<p>Fourth, at this point, if the police have indicated that Christian was not a known \u201cwhite supremacist.\u201d If anything, they have suspected that he is \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/heavy.com\/news\/2017\/05\/jeremy-christian-muslim-hate-crime-stabbing\/\">mentally ill<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Fifth, Christian has explicitly disavowed that he is a \u201cracist\u201d and has assured those that would think to accuse him of being such that they could count upon being \u201cknock [ed] out.\u201d\u00a0 \u201cI am not a racist,\u201d he wrote, \u201cand have a half Vietnamese Nephew and large Vietnamese Family in Portland the US Vietnam and around the world.\u201d\u00a0 He added: \u201cI will generally knock out a person that calls me a racist.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Nor has Christian at any place or time affirmed \u201cwhite supremacy.\u201d \u00a0If anything, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.funnyjunk.com\/channel\/politics\/Jeremy+christian+white+supremacist\/znnqLma\/\">he expressed<\/a> admiration for\u2026<em>Malcolm X<\/em>. \u00a0\u201cBasically,\u201d he wrote on Facebook, \u201cit pisses me off that we have a federal holiday for some plagerizing [sic] weak sauce revolutionary\u2026.If X had lived longer I think he would have done big things!!!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Christian continued: \u201cWhich is why I celebrate a real black revolutionary. MLK was as revolutionary as Mussolini.\u00a0 everything he wrote was actually written by someone else\u2026.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>What a strange type of \u201cwhite supremacist.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Finally, and related directly to this last point, that the media is spinning the Portland incident into an \u201canti-Muslim\u201d attack is as dishonest as it is offensive. The two Islamic women left the train physically unscathed.\u00a0 This \u201cwhite supremacist\u201d instead turned his sights upon three white men.<\/p>\n<p><em>Three<\/em>. <em>White<\/em>. <em>Men<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Two of these men are now dead and the third is recovering from knife wounds.\u00a0 It is a strange kind of white supremacy that refuses to lift a finger against non-white females in favor of butchering fellow white men.<\/p>\n<p>To be clear, Jeremy Christian sounds like he was a scumbag long before he stabbed three men, killing two of them. If, upon receiving a fair trial, he is convicted of the crimes of which he is now being accused, I will be the first to urge that he pay with his life.<\/p>\n<p>Though my judgment of Christian doesn\u2019t in the least change the fact that media coverage of him and his alleged crime has been profoundly dishonest, cooked from the start to fit the press\u2019s favorite political narrative of endemic \u201cWhite Racism.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>And what a better time, hot on the heels of the Islamic murders in Manchester, England and in Egypt, to truck out the left\u2019s meme of choice.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Over the Memorial Day weekend, Jeremy Joseph Christian, 35, boarded the MAX train in Portland, Oregon and harassed two young women who, reportedly, were in Islamic attire. Three other men, who are now being hailed as heroes, came to their defense. 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