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On Sept. 11, 2006, the fifth anniversary of the terror attacks that devastated our nation, a man crashed his car into a building in Davenport, Iowa, hoping to blow it up and kill himself in the fire.

No national newspaper, magazine or network newscast reported this attempted suicide bombing, though an AP wire story was available. Cable news (save for MSNBC's Keith Olbermann) was silent about this latest act of terrorism in America.

Had the criminal, David McMenemy, been Arab or Muslim, this would have been headline news for weeks. But since his target was the Edgerton Women's Health Center, rather than, say, a bank or a police station, media have not called this terrorism -- even after three decades of extreme violence by anti-abortion fanatics, mostly fundamentalist Christians who believe they're fighting a holy war.

Since 1977, casualties from this war include seven murders, 17 attempted murders, three kidnappings, 152 assaults, 305 completed or attempted bombings and arsons, 375 invasions, 482 stalking incidents, 380 death threats, 618 bomb threats, 100 acid attacks, and 1,254 acts of vandalism, according to the National Abortion Federation.

Abortion providers and activists received 77 letters threatening anthrax attacks before 9/11, yet the media never considered anthrax threats as terrorism until after 9/11, when such letters were delivered to journalists and members of Congress.

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Remember when the "pro-life" people blew up the Morgentaler Clinic on Harbord street in Toronto? If Muslim extremists had exploded two buildings less than a block from Canada's largest university, we now know with our post 9/11 hindsight what the repercussions would have been for the Muslim community.

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Originally posted by Sineed:
Remember when the "pro-life" people blew up the Morgentaler Clinic on Harbord street in Toronto? If Muslim extremists had exploded two buildings less than a block from Canada's largest university, we now know with our post 9/11 hindsight what the repercussions would have been for the Muslim community.

Ironic how the same people who say, "The Muslim community must take responsibility for the extremists in their midst," might also say (of abortion clinic bombers), "Well, we sympathise with their point of view even though we don't condone their actions."

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This is an extremely good point and well worth noting to people at large.