John Walker Lindh, at age 14, was a confused, unhappy, angry little boy with a fascination for the violent rhythms of hip-hop music. By age 16, his anger was directed at Jews, Gays, Zionists, Christians, and White America. In 1998 he joined a "Pakistan-based jehadi organization" linked to terrorists wishing to overthrow the USA. He wanted to be a holy warrior. The presence of U.S. ships off the coast of Yemen was "an act of war against Islam" he declared. He journeyed to Yemen on a mission which coincided with the bombing of the USS Cole. Mission accomplished, John Walker left for Pakistan and met with Taliban officials, and then journeyed to Afghanistan where he swore allegiance to Osama bin Laden who preached "Death to America." But was it the USA which John Walker wished to destroy, or his unknown face? John Walker was at war with himself for he hated and sought to destroy his true identity. He called himself "doodoo" but pretended he was a Black "gangsta" rap star wannabe, and announced he would "remain anonymous" because of homosexuality. He was not a "worthless dickrider" but an imitation Muslim in search of purity. Yet imitation is not reality, which is why John Walker Lindh, in picking up the martyr's gun, was aiming not for the "Great Satan" or the United States, but his unknown face.

Some have argued that Walker picked the wrong cause at the wrong time, and that his biggest crime was that "his search for identity intersected precisely with the World Trade Center attacks."

Yet, when asked: "Was this what you thought it would be? Was this the right cause or the right place?"

Walker replied: "It is exactly what I thought it would be."

When pressed further: "And did you enjoy the jihad? I mean, was it a good cause for you?"

Walker replied: "Definitely."

After he had emerged from the basement caverns of the Qala-i-Jangi prison fortress, he was asked by Robert Pelton if he supported the September 11 terrorist attack on America. John Walker replied: ãThat requires a pretty long and complicated explanation. I havenât eaten for two or three days, and my mind is not really in shape to give you a coherent answer.ä But then he said, ãYes, I supported it.ä

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"In the weeks after September 11, Walker Lindh remained with his Taliban fighting group, he remained despite having learned of the terrorist attacks on his homeland, despite knowing that Osama bin Laden was responsible for those attacks and despite the knowledge that additional terrorist attacks and acts were planned. He remained at his post, shoulder to shoulder with the Taliban, armed with automatic weapons and hand grenades." --Attorney General John Ashcroft.

"He chose to embrace fanatics, and his allegiance to them never faltered, not with the knowledge that they had murdered thousands of his countrymen, not with the knowledge that they were engaged in a war with the United States." --Attorney General John Ashcroft.

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In the weeks following his capture and imprisonment by American forces, John Walker Lindh's parents vigorously defended their son and his association whit the Taliban, Osama bin Laden, and al-Qaeda.

ãI donât think John was doing anything wrong," his father, Frank Lindh explained. John just needed "a little kick in the butt" for keeping them in the dark about his plans, his father said, but otherwise they just wanted to "give him a big hug."

"My love for him is unconditional and absolute," said his mother.

"John is a good boy. I don't know of any information, any suggestion of any information indicating that he's done anything wrong," his father added.

"He's a sweet, shy kid with a pacifist's heart for social justice," said his mother.

"John loves America," his father said. "He never meant to harm any American, and he never did harm any American."

Despite the evidence, they could not believe that this "sweet, shy boy" would join the Taliban or bin Laden's al-Qaeda. He was a "pacifist" and "not a fighter," a "sensitive boy" who was easily frightened.

ãHe was the last person you would expect to go and fight,ä said his father.

ãThis is a kid who would freeze from fear. Heâs totally not streetwise,ä said his mother.

"None of us can see John as a warrior," said Bill Jones, a family "friend" and temporary spokesman for the Walker-Lindh family.

"He's not someone that would, that I would have ever imagined, could pick up a gun at all," his father added.

"John is a very sweet, unassuming, very spiritual young man -- rather frail, not an All-American football player or anything like that, certainly not a fighter," said Bill Jones.

And if he had joined the Taliban, bin Laden, and al-Qaeda, he had been brainwashed. John Walker was a victim. ãIf he got involved with the Taliban he must have been brainwashed,ä said his mother.

"As far as I am concerned" commented Bill Jones, "he is the American victim of the Taliban. He was just a good kid who ended up in wrong hands."

The word: "Brainwashed" was bandied about over and over again.

"It seems to me like Patty Hearst; I feel like he was brainwashed," said Bill Jones.

ãHe was isolated. He didnât know a soul in Pakistan. When youâre young and impressionable, itâs easy to be led by charismatic people," his mother said.

"I don't think he made a decision as a clear-thinking American adult," added Bill Jones. "He had no Western news brought to him. He had no cell phone, no computer, nothing. He was isolated."

When asked about John's statement of support for the September 11 attack, his father said: "All I can say is I don't think his mind was working -- I don't think he was thinking straight at that moment. I just ask that people have a little mercy and think about what he went through before he made that statement."

What about the fact that he had made anti-Christian, anti-Jewish, and anti-American remarks well before he journeyed to Pakistan and Afghanistan? What about the fact that John Walker had become a hate-spewing religious fanatic, while living in his parent's home, long before his association with the Taliban?

In the mind of his parents, his fanatical beliefs seemed understandable, commendable. They were proud of him. They encouraged him.

ãHe wanted something pure, and he was definitely questing at an early age. We encouraged him to look,ä said his father.

"He was very pious and hard-working in his studies. He was chaste, with no girls or alcohol," his mother told reporters.

"Until John disappeared on us, so to speak, on the first of May, I had nothing to see there other than a kid, a boy really, who had converted to a religion that I respect and that seemed very healthy and good for him," Lindh said. "He was always intellectually coherent, and he had a wonderful sense of humor," Lindh told reporters. "And none of that changed when he converted to Islam. I never had any major misgivings. He found this other spiritual path, and I have always supported that," his father said.

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ãI canât connect the dots between where John was and where John is." --Frank Lindh.

Connecting the dots...

John Walker Lindh has been repeatedly described as shy, sensitive, and sweet.

John Walker's mother described him as "sweet."

His father described him as "sweet."

Bill Jones, the friend of the family described him as "sweet."

His teachers described him as "sweet."

His mullah, Iltimas, described him as "sweet."

John Walker Lindh was a "sweet" boy and he was a "sweet" man.

"Sweet" is a somewhat uncommon way to describe adult male behavior. Certainly, men may behave sweetly, but when they do, the term is usually used in reference to their behavior when interacting with women, and not when interacting with adult men.

John Walker Lindh was not just sweet, but shy, sensitive, and gentle. He has been repeatedly described as shy, sensitive, and gentle. Robert Pelton who hangs out with tough guys and writes books about dangerous places, described John Walker Lindh as "a very gentle person. He was very sensitive. This guy struck me as a guy that should be going to poetry readings."

The shy, sweet, sensitive, gentle, John Walker Lindh was also easily frightened. He did not like sports. He did not like violence. He was afraid of getting hurt.

"A sweet, shy kid with a pacifist's heart" said his mother.

"A very sweet young man -- rather frail, not an All-American football player or anything like that. Certainly not a fighter."

"Not a fighter," said Robert Pelson.

"Not a fighter," said Bill Jones.

"Not a fighter," said his father.

ãThis is a kid who would freeze from fear. Heâs totally not streetwise,ä said his mother.

John Walker Lindh was not just shy, sweet, sensitive, gentle, and easily frightened, he did not like girls. He was not attracted to girls. He did not like the company of girls.

"He was chaste. No girls," his mother said proudly.

He in fact embraced a strict brand of Islam which excluded women from almost all aspects of daily life.

John Walker Lindh did not like girls. John Walker Lindh did not like women. He was not attracted to women. He shunned them.

If a man is shy, sweet, sensitive, gentle, easily frightened, does not like women or girls, and prefers only the company of men, what does that make him?

According to John Walker Lindh, if "he got no love for girls... he's gay."

John, a man of many names and many identities, once wrote that he "shall remain anonymous because of dickriders." Because of homosexuality.

Was John Walker Lindh a self-hating, latent, homosexual?

Shy, sweet, sensitive, gentle, easily frightened, avoiding fights, and shunning girls, women and sports, John Walker Lindh was certainly not the stereotypical picture of manliness.

Was John Walker Lindh a homosexual?

John Walker Lindh did not like homosexuals. He thought of them as sinful, dirty, and unclean. "Garbage," he said. "Worthless dickriders" he called them.

John Walker Lindh did not like homosexuals.

John Walker Lindh did not like himself. He named himself "doodoo" which means "shit." John Walker Lindh thought of himself as unclean. He thought of himself as "shit."

And perhaps he thought of himself as "shit" because other children treated him like "shit."

Shy, sweet, sensitive, and fearful, John Walker Lindh was a "sissy." Sissies are teased, tormented, ridiculed, and rejected by boys and girls alike.

Children can be cruel.

Children and adolescents tend to have very rigid concepts as to what are appropriate "male" vs "female" behaviors. Boys and girls as young as 8 years of age disapprove, ridicule and reject boys who are "sissies," or who act or behave like girls.

Sweet, shy, sensitive, fearful young boys who behave like "sissies" are subject to incredible torment if not physical abuse. They are treated like "shit."

John saw himself as shit. And he was angry.

John saw himself as oppressed. And he was angry.

John believed he was hated. And he was angry.

He was angry at White people. He was angry at Christians. He was angry at Jews. He was angry at the United States. And he was angry at homosexuals: "worthless dickriders."

John Walker Lindh not only hated and mocked Christians, Jews, Gays, and White America, but he joined a violent religious movement which preached death to Christians, Jews, Gays, and America--the same America that had rejected him because of what he was and what other kids believed him to be: a sissy, a "worthless dickrider."

The Taliban and Osama bin Laden's al-Qeada, offered John Walker Lindh not only the opportunity to reject the America which had rejected him, but the chance to be purified as a martyr and to destroy his own unknown face--and unknown face, which, as John admitted, "shall remain anonymous because of dickriders;" that is, because of homosexuality.

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Depression and self-hatred are epidemic among the gay community. Many homosexuals hate what they are, and hate what they do. Many seek refuge in alcohol, drugs, and even religion in order to numb the pain.

They may even join a religion that condemns homosexuality, for the self-hating homosexual often beats upon his own unknown face.

"Idolaters, adulterers, homosexuals... And such were some of you! But you were washed, you were sanctified, you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ and in the Spirit of our god." -Paul, Galatians, V 22-23.

Some self-hating homosexuals seek counseling, hormone replacement therapy, psychotherapy, psychiatric treatment, anything to help them overcome their homosexuality. Some embrace religion, the more fundamentalist, the better, even joining church-run "ex-gay" ministries as a way to supposedly "cure" themselves, to cleanse themselves of the sin of homosexuality.

Religion has often been a refuge for homosexuals, including those who do not know they are gay. They seek purity, to be cleansed of their sins.

John Walker Lindh also sought purity through religion. Indeed, his father once commented the John was "questing for something pure at an early age," and that John reminded him of a "Catholic Seminarian."

According to Dr. Thomas Plante of the Jesuit college, Santa Clara University, and editor of a book on sexuality and the church, "50% of the Catholic clergy are gay, even though they're not acting on it." Homosexuality is so rampant among Catholic priests that according to the Boston Globe (1/31/2000)they have a rate of HIV infection which is four times that of the general population.

Homosexuality and the homosexual rape of boys and young men is so common in the Catholic church that by edict, priests are no longer allowed to be alone with altar boys. In 1999, the Bishop of the Santa Rosa Diocese in California was forced to resign because another priest accused the Bishop of repeatedly raping him.

And its is not just the Catholic Church which is a refuge for homosexual priests. As detailed in the San Francisco Chronicle (Lattin, 7/15/97) homosexuality became so rampant within the ministry of the Episcopal church, and its homosexual clergy so openly promiscuous that the church lost over 5 million members by 1997.

In Australia, hundreds of boys and young men have alleged they were raped by the homosexual priests and pastors of the Christian Fathers boarding schools.

In Islamic countries, homosexual are also drawn to the priesthood. It is rumored, for example, that in the holy city of Om, in Iran, that homosexuality and homosexual pedophilia is a common, albeit forbidden practice among Mullahs who sexually exploit their young male charges.

Likewise, homosexuality and homosexual pedophilia are common among the Hindu priesthood and the Hare Krishnas. In fact, over a dozen Hare Krishna temples in the United States were forced to file for bankruptcy in 2002, because of the over 400 million dollars in judgments awarded in lawsuits for the homosexual sexual abuse of boys and young men.

As detailed in the book, The Transmitter to God, throughout history, homosexuality has been common among shaman, priests, pastors, and wizards.

That John Walker Lindh, the shy, sweet, sensitive, sissy, would seek refuge in religion, is not without precedent. Religion has always been a refuge for homosexuals, including those who do not know they are gay. Like John Walker, they seek purity, to be cleansed of even "unimaginable sins."

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John Walker Lindh was not attracted to girls or women, and with the exception of his mother, he objected to their presence. When he journeyed to Yemen to attend school, one of the reasons he gave for leaving after 10 days, was the presence of female students and teachers. His hatred and dislike for women was so extreme that he embraced and wanted to fight for a woman-hating religion that sadistically sought to deny them all their rights, which beat and killed them, and imprisoned them in their homes.

As detailed in the book, "The Transmitter to God," the suppression of female rights has always been a characteristic of patriarchal religions and those dominated by homosexuals. The atrocities committed against women by the Taliban, is not without precedent and is reminiscent of the war against women which the Catholic Church waged for almost a thousand years.

As detailed in "The Transmitter to God," the woman burning crusades of the Middle Ages were led almost exclusively by homosexual priests who first gained control over the church in the 10th century which is also when the Catholic Church issued the Canon Episcopi which referred to women as "wicked." The Church went on to recommend that "it would be well if these women, one and all, perished for their infidelities." In 1252, Pope Innocent IV issued the Ad Exitrpanda, which authorized the execution of women who gathered in groups to talk and converse and possibly worship pagan goddesses. This was followed by the first Papal bull on sorcery, in 1259, and yet another bull, the notorious Super illius specula, in 1322 (by Pope John the XXII), which authorized the murder of women.

The number of women murdered by the Catholic Church varied over the ensuing decades. In the year 1404, for example, the Papal fathers burned 30,000 women. However, the war against women had not yet reached its peak.

In 1484 Pope Innocent VIII, issued the famous Bull Summis desiderantes affectibus, which authorized the mass murder of women. The Popes and the homosexual priesthood of the Catholic Church proclaimed them witches and declared war against women.

Being "true soldiers of Christ," the Dominicans Heinrich Kramer and Johann Sprenger responded to this last Papal decree by writing and issuing the Malleus Maleficarum (witch's hammer), which unleashed a murderous, sadistic, blood lust that demanded the torture and burning of "woman the witch, healer and sorceress." And what was the great sin of these women?

"Carnal lust. All witchcraft comes from carnal lust, which in women is insatiable.... For she is a liar by nature, so in her speech she stings while she delights us... for her voice is like the song of the Sirens, who with their sweet melody entice the passerby's and kill them..." (Malleus Maleficarum).

Bishop Bossuet, of France, advocated that over 180,000 women be gathered up in one body and that "all be burned at once in one fire."

Often all the women in a given area were rounded up by the Catholic authorities. However, when the priests set upon a village, it was the young and beautiful who were generally the first to be tortured, as they were experts at love magic. These beautiful women would bewitch men by shooting mesmerizing "beams of light from their eyes" which causes the man to fall in love.

Just being beautiful was considered a sin and justified the worst of sexual tortures:

"Consider also her gait, posture, and habit, which is vanity of vanities. There is no man in the world who studies so hard to please the good God as even an ordinary woman studies by her vanities to please men... who... they infect with witchcraft by inclining men to inordinate passion. Yet... her heart is a net, it speaks of the inscrutable malice which reigns in their hearts... for they fulfill their lusts by consorting with devils"(Malleus Maleficarum).

Those who were exceedingly attractive were hideously tortured and then slaughtered by burning, boiling in oil, crushing, and via whatever device the religious authorities felt appropriate or which suited their sick minds. In Germany huge ovens were constructed for the purposes of mass female murder.

Even nuns were "damned." The cannons of thirteenth century priories not only expelled nuns from their community, but priests would torture and have them killed:

"Recognizing the wickedness of women is greater than all other wickedness in the world... the poison of snakes and dragons is easier to cure and less dangerous to men than associating with women. We have unanimously decreed for the preservation of our souls and our bodies, no more nuns, and to treat them as we would poisonous beasts."

After they had been arrested by the religious authorities many of these women would be beaten, stuck with long needles, and tortured to unconsciousness. Priests would employ "gresillons which crushed the tips of fingers and toes in the vice; the echelle, or rack, for stretching the body; the tortillon for squeezing its tender parts... legs were broken, even into fragments... or the legs would be grilled on the caschielawis... the fingernails were pulled off with the turkas, or pincers, and needles driven up to their heads into the quick."

Hundreds of thousands if not millions of women were tortured and murdered. So many women were murdered that it could be said that the Church was attempting no less than a whole sale genocide of women.

As summed up by Henry Charles Lea: "Protestants and Catholics rivaled each other in the madness of the hours.... Christendom seemed to have grown delirious, and Satan might well have smiled at the tribute to his powers seen in the endless smoke of the holocaust which bore witness to his triumph over the Almighty."

Crimes against women were not just the sole province of the Christian Church. The Jewish profit Isaiah also condemned women in no uncertain terms:

"Because the daughters of Zion are haughty and walk with stretched forth necks and wanton eyes, walking and mincing as they go, and making a tinkling with their feet; The Lord will smite with a scab of crowns of their head and the Lord will discover their secret parts. In that day the Lord will take away their tinkling ornaments... their bracelets... bonnets, ornaments... earrings, the rings... and fine linen... And it shall come to pass that instead of sweet smell there shall be stink... The Lord shall wash away the filth of the daughters of Zion... by the spirit of burning" (Isaiah 3:16-26, 4:4).

Women have always been relegated to a third class status in every society where the people were governed by theocracies, or where homosexuality became widespread. In nation states where homosexuality became rampant, such as parts of ancient Greece, women were not even viewed as sex objects, but as an inconvenient and messy vehicle for producing male children who would then be sexually exploited by homosexual men thus perpetuating homosexual pedophilia among each subsequent generation until these cultures collapsed.

Sex with women for-procreation-only has in fact been the official position of the Catholic Church and the pedophilia priesthood for almost two thousand years.

"If it was good company and conversation that Adam needed, it would have been much better if god were to have arranged to have two men together as friends, not a man and a woman." -Saint Augustine.

It is perhaps understandable the sexual-contempt and sexual-prohibitions voiced and promulgated by the homosexual clergy, for sexy women are their natural enemies... seeking the same prey, the affections of a man.

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John Walker Lindh joined a religious movement, the Taliban, that in many ways rivaled the mind-set and the barbarities committed by the medieval Catholic Church. Like the Taliban, the medieval Catholic Church was a terrorist organization that authorized the mass murder not just of women, but heretics, Muslims, and Jews.

Murder has always been the hallmark of religion. The most horrific crimes against humanity have almost always been committed by those with god on their side.

Throughout history, almost all of the principle patriarchal Gods have been violent, mass murdering, conquering warriors, e.g., Marduk, Mazda, Zeus, Apollo, Mars, and Yahweh "the Lord of hosts" which means: "Lord of armies." Yahweh also means: "The Destroyer."

These warrior gods, including Yahweh, were prone to mass murder and extremely violent rages. Yahweh repeatedly threatened and engaged in the slaughter of enemies and believers alike, without mercy or regard for women and children. The Lord God of the ancient Israelites repeatedly demanded that His people engage in widespread ethnic cleansing, mass murder, and genocide.

"Behold I send an angel before thee, to keep thee in the way. Beware of him and obey his voice, for I will be an enemy unto thine enemies, and an adversary unto thine adversaries, and I will cut them off..... I will send my terror before thee, and will destroy all the people to whom thou shalt come..... and I will drive them out from before thee, until thou be increased and inherit the land." -Exodus 23:20-30

"...when you approach a town, you shall lay seizure to it, and when the Lord your god delivers it into your hand, you shall put all its males to the sword. You may, however, take as your booty the women, the children, the livestock, and everything in the town--all its spoils--and enjoy the spoil of your enemy which the Lord your god gives you.... In the towns of the people which the Lord your god is giving you as a heritage, you shall not let a soul remain alive." -Exodus 20:15-18; -Deuteronomy 20:12-16

"When Israel had killed all the inhabitants of Ai....and all of them, to the last man had fallen by the sword, all the Israelites turned back to Ai and put it to the sword...until all the inhabitants of Ai had been exterminated... and the king of Ai was impaled on a stake and it was left lying at the entrance to the city gate." -Deuteronomy 8:24-29.

Led by Moses, and their "Lord God" the ancient Hebrews/Israelites murdered untold numbers, perhaps hundreds of thousands of innocent men, women, children, including even their livestock. These atrocities were committed against all manner of innocent peoples not because they had sinned, but because they happened to be along the path to the "promised land" and because they had the misfortune of living on land and possessing property that the "Lord God" wanted to give to his people.

"When the Lord they God shall bring thee into the land, and shall cast out many nations before thee, the Hittite, and the Gergashite, and the Amorite, and the Canaanite, and the Perizzite, and the Hivite, and the Jebusite... and the Lord thy god shall deliver them up before thee, and thou shalt smite them, then thou shall utterly destroy them." -Deuteronomy 7:1-2.

"Of the cities of these peoples, that the Lord thy God giveth thee for an inheritance, thou shalt save alive nothing that breathest." -Deuteronomy, 20:16.

Moreover, "God" gloried not only in the murder of innocent women and children, but took special satisfaction in the theft of their property--the spoils of a godly-genocidal war. The Lord God believed that theft and injustice was a testament to his glory as a conquering warrior god.

"Great and goody cities, which thou didst not build and houses full of all good things which thou didst not fill, and cisterns hew own, which thou didst not hew, and vineyards and olive-trees, which thou didst not plant, and thou shalt eat and be satisfied." -Deuteronomy 6:10-11.

Yahweh, the Lord of Hosts, the "Destroyer," apparently so enjoyed the spectacle of mass murder, that once he began to kill He found it difficult to stop, killing everything and everyone, the guilty and the innocent, the righteous and the wicked, and even their animals. Apparently only the sight of blood and more blood, the signs of death, could cool his ardor for indiscriminate mass murder. God knows this and explained to Moses that the only way to protect himself and the Jews from slaughter was by painting their doors red with blood: "When I see the blood" He informs Moses, "I will pass over you, and there shall be no plague upon you to destroy you, when I smite the land of Egypt" (Exodus 12:12-13).

Despite the commandment "thou shall not kill" Yahweh kills and murders the innocent and guilty alike and encourages and in fact orders the Israelites to murder even babies and women with children.

"And they warred... as the Lord commanded and slew all the males. And they slew the Kings... and they took all the women and their little ones... and they burnt all their cities wherein they dwelt, and all their goodly castles with fire... And Moses was wroth...and said unto them. Have ye saved all the women and the little ones alive? Now therefore kill every male among the little ones, and kill every woman that hath known man by lying with him." (Numbers, 31).

Moreover, it is not just Egyptians or the hapless innocents who the Israelites and their Lord God murder in their 40 years of wondering, but tens of thousands if not hundreds of thousands of Jews. The Lord God kills them for rebelling, He kills them for "murmuring," He kills them for complaining, He kills them for questioning. And He kills their wives, brothers, fathers, mothers, and children: "Go forth and slay brother, neighbor, and kin" (Genesis, 32:26-29).

"Terror, and the pit, and the snare are upon you, O inhabitant of earth (Isaiah 24:17). And as the Lord took delight in doing you good and multiplying you, so the Lord will take delight in bringing ruin upon you and destroying you" (Deuterotomy 26:63). The Lord will bring a nation against you from afar, from the end of the earth, which will swoop down like the eagle... a ruthless nation, that will show the old no regard and the young no mercy (Deuterotomy 28:47-50). It shall devour the offspring... you shall eat your own issue, the flesh of your sons and daughters... until He has wiped you out... leaving you nothing.... until it has brought ruin unto you..." (Deuterotomy 28:50-55).

The ancient Israelis not only received special permission from their "Lord God" to murder wayward Jews, non-Jews and Jewish non-believers, including women and children whom they slaughtered without mercy (e.g. Numbers, 31 15-18; Numbers 34, 50-53), but even Jewish babies. Indeed, it was a Hebrew religious-tradition to kill and slaughter not only non-Jewish males in general and first born Jewish sons (a custom until the time of Moses.

"A blessing on him who seizes your babies and dashes them against rocks." -Psalm 137:9).

"I polluted them with their own offerings, making them sacrifice all their first-born, which was to punish them, so that they would learn that I am Yahweh." -Ezekiel 20:25-36; 22:28-29.

It was upon these images of the murdering warrior God, the Lord of Hosts, that Pope Urban II proclaimed that war for the sake of God was holy, and then launched the first of the Crusades. In consequence hundreds of thousands of Moslems, Jews, and women and children, were sexually tortured, slaughtered, spitted, and roasted alive, and their cities and villages pillaged and set ablaze. All in the name of the Lord God.

Even Christians were murdered.

For example, in the 13th century an army of some thirty thousand Christian knights and Crusaders descended into southern France and attacked the town of Beziers in search of heretics. Over thirteen thousand Christians flocked to the churches for protection. When the Bishop, one of the Pope's representatives, was informed that the army was unable to distinguish between true believers and heretics, he replied, "Kill them all. God will recognize his own."

The Spanish and Catholic missionaries, acting at the behest of the Catholic Popes (and their Spanish/Catholic Sovereigns), continued these Satanic practices once they invaded the Americas during the 1500's and up through the 19th century.

As the Catholic Dominican Bishop Bartolom de Las Casas reported to the Pope: the Aztec and Indian natives were hung and burnt alive "in groups of 13... thus honoring our Savior and the 12 apostles." However, because some of the tortured victims managed to live throughout the night, the Dominican priests ordered that sticks be shoved down their throats so the soldiers and priests would not be kept awake at night by their pitiful cries and moans.

Of course the Aztecs did not practice a benign form of worship, for they tore the beating hearts from their victims in order to please their God, and they killed thousands if not hundreds of thousands in so doing.

Nor are these archaic religious customs. Many modern day Islamic, Christian, and Jewish fundamentalists, regularly preach murder and hatred.

For example, "militant rabbis in Israel had encouraged and condoned the assassination of Israel's Prime Minister, Yitzhak Rabin, and had issued a "pursuer's decree," which in effect morally required that he be killed (New York Times 11/11/95). And, he was murdered by a student of religion, Yigal Amir, who claimed he acted upon "God's" instructions.

Likewise, in northern Ireland, Catholics and Protestants have murdered each other for years.

Christian fundamentalists also regularly murder one another in the United States, and justify their crimes in the name of God.

For example, on November 29, 1998, six members of the United Pentecostal Church were arrested for kicking to death six people, including three children, "to wipe out the enemies of God." According to Reuters new agency (11/28/98), the killings began two weeks prior, when the pastor of the thirty member sect announced during a sermon that he could hear voices from Jesus Christ ordering that members of the group be punished. "The pastor, helped by his wife and two other men, began beating, whipping and stamping on the worshipers... followed by more disciplinary torture over several days. Among the dead were two boys, aged three and four."

Nor are these crazed religious practices limited to Catholics, Jews, Protestants, and Muslims, but Hindus, Buddhists, and innumerable religious cults who willing engage in murder.

Consider, the Japanese religious cult "Aum." Their leader Shoko Asahara and many top cult members were arrested and charged with murder in June of 1995 for releasing the nerve gas Sarin in five subway cars during rush hour injuring over 5,500 Japanese commuters (New York Times, 6/7/95).

Buddhist monks have also been known to murder and assault one another. For example, in November of 1998, gray-robed Buddhist monks of the Chogye Buddhist order in Korea, spent several weeks assaulting and beating each other with clubs, chairs, and even fire bombs as they battled over religious control of the order's main temple (Associated Press, 11/17/98). In one brawl alone, 37 were seriously injured and five killed.

Murder, terrorism, and the most horrific crimes against humanity have always been committed by those with god on their side. The "pious," the "chaste" and those with no interest in "girls" have been terrorizing and killing one another and savagely murdering women and children in the name of god since time immemorial.

That the sweet, shy, spiritually-mind John Walker Lindh would also join a religious movement that embraced terrorism and mass murder, and even the killing of fellow Muslims, is not without precedent. Considered over the course of religious-history John Walker Lindh's behavior and his actions are little different from those of hundreds of thousands if not millions of spiritually-mind men.

Intolerance, homosexuality, the suppression of women, terrorism, and mass murder, have been the hallmarks of almost all patriarchal religions since time immemorial.

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John Walker Lindh was on a quest for personal purity and then joined a religion that encouraged him to pick up a gun and kill his fellow Muslims, and his fellow Americans.

Who was John Walker Lindh?

Sweet, shy, sensitive, John Walker Lindh, at age 14, was a confused, unhappy, angry little boy with a fascination for the violent rhythms of hip-hop music. By age 16, his anger was directed at Jews, Gays, Zionists, Christians, and White America. In 1998, after converting to Islam, and while still living in California, John Walker Lindh joined a "Pakistan-based jehadi organization" with suspected links to terrorists and Islamic extremists dedicated to the overthrow of "moderate" Islamic governments and the United States of America. That same year John Walker Lindh left for Yemen to attend language school, but then dropped out and disappeared after just two weeks. For the next eight months he made contact with militants at the Islamic University, only to be apprehended and returned to the U.S.

John Walker Lindh wanted to be a holy warrior. The presence of U.S. forces and U.S. ships off the coast of Yemen and other Muslim nations was "an act of war against Islam" he declared. In the year 2000 he returned to Yemen on a mission which coincided with the bombing of the USS Cole off the coast of Yemen--blamed on al-Qeada as well as militants attending Yemen's Islamic University.

Mission accomplished, John Walker left Yemen for Pakistan where he met with Taliban officials, and then journeyed to Afghanistan where he swore allegiance to al-Qeada and Osama bin Laden who personally thanked John Walker for his assistance and his help.

Osama bin Laden had preached: "Death to America!" But was it the United States which John Walker wished to destroy, or his unknown face?

The story of John Walker, is a story of a young man at war with himself for he hated and repeatedly sought to jettison and destroy his true identity.

He thought of himself as "doodoo" but wished to pretend that he was hated not because of what he was, but because of who he pretended to be.

John Walker Lindh turned to the internet in search of anonymity and a new identity. He was not the shy, sweet, sensitive, gentle, fearful little boy that his parents and school mates knew him to be, but an imitation Black gangsta rap star wannabe.

Yet, he accused others of being exactly what he was, and then announced he would remain anonymous because of homosexuality. He was not a "worthless dickrider" but an imitation Muslim in search of purity.

John Walker Lindh convinced himself that imitation is reality. "If you imitate a people, you'll be regarded as one of them... even if you commit unimaginable sins."

John did not just imitate, but spewed intolerance and hate. Hatred of homosexuals, Christians, Hindus, Muslims, and Jews, and hatred of the female half of the human race.

John Walker Lindh was on a quest for personal purity. He joined a religion that encouraged him to pick up a gun and to kill his fellow Muslims, and American women and men.

Yet imitation is not reality, which is why John Walker Lindh, in picking up the martyr's gun, was aiming not for the "Great Satan" or the United States, but at something far more evil and full of sin... his own unknown face.