{"id":177562,"date":"2019-08-17T20:23:00","date_gmt":"2019-08-18T01:23:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2019\/08\/17\/talibaptist\/"},"modified":"2019-08-17T20:23:00","modified_gmt":"2019-08-18T01:23:00","slug":"talibaptist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2019\/08\/17\/talibaptist\/","title":{"rendered":"Talibaptist"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>Washington State representative Matt Shea <a href=\"https:\/\/www.seattletimes.com\/seattle-news\/washington-state-rep-matt-shea-endorsed-training-children-to-fight-in-holy-war\/\">has been actively supporting military training caps for children to prepare for a holy war<\/a>.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Seriously, these people are indistinguishable from ISIS: <\/div>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: blue;\">A week before his re-election last year, state Rep. Matt Shea denied that a leaked manifesto he wrote was a road map for a holy war, one that would pit conservative Christian \u201cpatriots\u201d against Muslim and Marxist \u201cterrorists.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>Rather, Shea insisted, the document titled \u201cBiblical Basis for War\u201d contained notes for a scholarly sermon on war in the Old Testament. <\/p>\n<p>But newly leaked emails, first reported by The Guardian on Wednesday, as well as a video on Shea\u2019s public Facebook page, show the Spokane Valley Republican has had close ties with a group called Team Rugged that trained children, teens and men in their early 20s for religious combat. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe entire purpose behind Team Rugged is to provide patriotic and biblical training on war for young men,\u201d a man identified as the group\u2019s leader, Patrick Caughran, wrote in a July 2016 email to Shea. \u201cEverything about it is both politically incorrect and what would be considered shocking truth to most modern christians. There will be scenarios where every participant will have to fight against one of the most barbaric enemies that are invading our country, Muslims terrorists.\u201d<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Props to the Spokane county sheriff though:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: blue;\">Spokane County Sheriff Ozzie Knezovich, who has urged fellow Republicans to denounce Shea as an extremist, compared Team Rugged to the Hitler Youth of Nazi Germany.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">\u201cAny radicalization of youth in such a manner would be very comparable,\u201d Knezovich said in a text message Wednesday.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I did Nazi that coming.<\/p>\n<p>H\/t EC at the <a href=\"http:\/\/stellarparthenon.org\/\">Stellar Parthenon BBS<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Washington State representative Matt Shea has been actively supporting military training caps for children to prepare for a holy war. Seriously, these people are indistinguishable from ISIS: A week before his re-election last year, state Rep. Matt Shea denied that a leaked manifesto he wrote was a road map for a holy war, one that &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[364,374,380,373],"class_list":["post-177562","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-evil","tag-politics","tag-religion","tag-terrorism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177562"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=177562"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177562\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=177562"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=177562"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=177562"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}