Democratic Veteran
writes about the arrest of Eric “Christian Terrorist” Rudolph:
So how do we treat the folks in the communities surrounding the area where Rudolph was caught? It’s not fair to tar them all as some have done, as stupid fundies who dogmatically empathized with Rudolph, and because of their perception of the “rightousness” of his acts afforded him the needed protection to hide out all this time. It’s not easy to look the other way either, especially when there are comments sympathetic to both the man and his cause. It’s almost akin to another situation here in this country, the way we treat Americans who are Muslim. If we give these folks in Western North Carolina a break because they are of the same faith, then we should perhaps give our fellow citizens who are Muslim a break, they are not terrorists nor, I suspect would they go to the extremes of perhaps a select few in the Mountains of NC to support one of their own.
Body and Soul has more on the area in which Rudolph was caught, noting the long history of bad government decisions on its inhabitants.