If you do an online search on the term “Christian terrorism” you will find that lots of people on the Left are using the term. It was already popular on many blogs and websites before the Planned Parenthood shooting in Colorado. Now the use of the term has exploded on the Internet.

In the past, the examples usually cited for Christian terrorism were people like Timothy McVeigh. That really doesn’t work since he claimed to be an agnostic and never claimed that the Bible or the words of Jesus were his inspiration for blowing up the federal building in Oklahoma.

I’ve heard some try to argue that Adolf Hitler was a Christian. He was not, and actually hated Christianity. The emotionally disturbed man who killed people near the Planned Parenthood clinic wasn’t a Christian either. But that hasn’t stopped lots of leftists from claiming that the shooting is another example of Christian terrorism.

If we do take these claims at face value, it creates a bigger problem for politicians who continually tell us that radical terrorists have no connection to Islam. The president and former secretary of state tell us that ISIS and other terrorist organizations have “nothing whatsoever” to do with Islam. So where is their condemnation of the phrase “Christian terrorism”?

Remember when President Obama spoke at the National Prayer Breakfast? He said Christians should not get on their “high horses” about Muslim atrocities because Christians nearly a thousand years ago were involved in the Crusades. Of course this makes my point. By laying the sins of Christian crusaders at the feet of Christians today, he implies that the Muslims bear some responsibility for that brutality of ISIS and other radical Muslim groups today. This is the problem when you start using the rhetorical tactic of “guilt by association.”

I might also add that modern Christianity is not struggling with the Crusades, but Muslims today are struggling with Islamic terrorism. Christian terrorism is a fiction. Radical Muslim terrorism is an unfortunate fact.