{"id":6043,"date":"2010-04-12T14:22:29","date_gmt":"2010-04-12T14:22:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/jesuscreed\/2010\/04\/were-confederate-soldiers-terr.html"},"modified":"2010-04-12T14:22:29","modified_gmt":"2010-04-12T14:22:29","slug":"were-confederate-soldiers-terr","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/jesuscreed\/2010\/04\/were-confederate-soldiers-terr.html","title":{"rendered":"Were Confederate Soldiers Terrorists?"},"content":{"rendered":"

So argues Roland Martin, of CNN.com<\/a>. [Roland needs to define “terrorist.” It appears to me that he’s defined “terrorist” as anyone who fights for an unjustifiable cause. I don’t support, however, Virginia’s governor in this celebration.]<\/p>\n

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Based on the hundreds of e-mails, Facebook comments and Tweets I’ve read in response to my denunciation of Virginia Gov. Bob McDonnell’s decision to honor Confederates for their involvement in the Civil War — which was based on the desire to continue slavery — the one consistent thing that supporters of the proclamation offer up as a defense is that these individuals were fighting for what they believed in and defending their homeland…. [skipping to the end…]<\/span><\/div>\n

Even if you’re a relative of one of the 9\/11 hijackers, that man was an out-and-out terrorist, and nothing you can say will change that. And if your great-great-great-granddaddy was a Confederate who stood up for Southern ideals, he too was a terrorist.<\/p>\n

They are the same.
\nAs a matter of conscience, I will not justify, understand or accept the atrocious view of Muslim terrorists that their actions represent a just war. They are reprehensible, and their actions a sin against humanity.<\/p>\n

And I will never, under any circumstances, cast Confederates as heroic figures who should be honored and revered. No — they were, and forever will be, domestic terrorists.<\/p>\n

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