So, if you didn't want to anger the Muslim community or appear insensitive but you wanted to prepare your kids in case they were held hostage by radical fundamentalists, what would you do? Use a different group of fundamentalists, of course:
The scenario has played out in real life across America: Gunfire echoes through a school and students are held hostage.But police, faculty and staff lived out their own make-believe version yesterday of just such a tragedy at Burlington Township High School, complete with Kevlar-clad officers, armed suspects and students portraying the wounded and dead.
The purpose of the drill was to test the reactions of police, faculty and administration.
“You perform as you practice,” Superintendent Chris Manno said prior to the exercise. “We need to practice under conditions as real as possible in order to evaluate our procedures and plans so that they're as effective as possible.”
The mock terror attack involved two irate men armed with handguns who invaded the high school through the front door. They pretended to shoot several students in the hallway and then barricaded themselves in the media center with 10 student hostages.
Two Burlington Township police detectives portrayed the gunmen. Investigators described them as members of a right-wing fundamentalist group called the “New Crusaders” who don't believe in separation of church and state. The mock gunmen went to the school seeking justice because the daughter of one had been expelled for praying before class.
I would think that there might be something that they may want to impart to the kids about being held by Islamic terrorists which would be missing from being held hostage by a mythical group of "radical" Christians.
And I'm amazed at how this is reported, as if there isn't anything wrong with portraying Christians in this light.
