Nationally Funded Database Classifies Students for Life as a 'Terrorist Group'

Emily Mangiaracina : Apr 9, 2024
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The pro-lifers were arrested despite being told verbally by police that they would not be prevented from painting and having been instructed to use tempura paint. Meanwhile, the city permitted its streets to be widely vandalized in permanent paint with Black Lives Matter messages just before the pro-lifers' arrests.

(California) — [LifeSiteNews.com] A government-funded "radicalization" database has labeled Students for Life of America (SFLA) a "terrorist" group, prompting criticism from terrorism experts. (Image: via LifeSiteNews /Screengrab via X)

The College Fix reported [recently] that SFLA "appears under a 'Terrorist Group' label in the raw dataset" of the University of Maryland's "Profiles of Individual Radicalization in the United States" (PIRUS).

The project, which is an initiative of the National Consortium for the Study of Terrorism and Responses to Terrorism (START), tracks "ideologically motivated criminal activity" as well as "violent extremist groups," which it defines as being led or founded by an individual who has been "indicted for an ideologically motivated violent offense."

The PIRUS database lists two individuals associated with SFLA who match the description of student members who were arrested in 2020 for attempting to chalk "black pre-born lives matter" on a sidewalk outside of a Planned Parenthood center. The pro-lifers were arrested despite being told verbally by police that they would not be prevented from painting and having been instructed to use tempura paint.

Meanwhile, the city permitted its streets to be widely vandalized in permanent paint with Black Lives Matter messages just before the pro-lifers' arrests... Subscribe for free to Breaking Christian News here

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