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While I agree Roeder is an extreamist and what he did was wrong there is a difference. Roeder killed a Docter who kills babies because he wanted to stop Tiller from killing babies. Muslim extreamist kill innocent men women and babies indiscriminately because they are evil. Dr Tiller was closer to a muslim extreamist than Scott Roeder is.
This is exactly the kind of hypocrisy that I'm talking about.
Terrorists don't kill innocent people 'because they are evil'. They do it because it will further their goals and/or ideals. They believe that their ideals are more important than the lives they are taking, and religion plays a large part in their reasoning. They believe that if the rightful authority is not going to stand up for what they believe is right, then it is up to them to take the necessary actions themselves, and damn the consequences.
Roeder killed Tiller because it furthered his ideals. He believed those ideals were more important than Tiller's life, and religion played a large part in his reasoning. He believed that since the rightful authority was not going to stand up for what he believed was right, then it was up to him to take the necessary actions himself, and damn the consequences.
Face it, Roeder's attack was terrorism. It might not be the kind of terrorism that we're used to, but that's what it was.