Bible Student Charged With Bookstore Arson
ASSOCIATED PRESS

KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - Police say a Bible college student charged with setting fire to an adult bookstore confessed to the crime after realizing it was a sin.

Benjamin Daniel Warren, 20, is a student at Crown College, a fundamental Baptist college and seminary of about 900 students in Knoxville.

Warren waived a preliminary hearing this week, and a grand jury is considering his case. His attorney, Chris Coffey, did not immediately return a call for comment Friday.

Authorities said a man wearing black clothing and a ski mask and carrying what proved to be a fake gun entered the Town and Country Bookstore on Jan. 31 and asked the clerk if anyone was inside. Assured the store was empty, he ordered the clerk to leave.

He poured about six gallons of "an ignitable liquid" inside the bookstore and set it on fire, according to an arrest warrant.

No one was injured, but the fire destroyed $600,000 in merchandise and caused up to $300,000 in damage to the building, owner David Stubbs said.

Police had no clue to the masked man's identity until Warren surrendered April 11.
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Oh thats right... because he did it for the bible instead of environemntal, animal or human rights...

Let me give you a hand with this one, guerilla.

Looking up the difinition of terrorism in the online webster dictionary terrorism is defined as: the systematic use of terror especially as a means of coercion and the definition of terrorist is One that engages in acts or an act of terrorism. . NOW, while this case of arson was clearly wrong and against the law (note that I'm not defending the guy) he wasn't engaged in a systemic campaign of terror to coerce the general public to do this or not do that. He burned down a building, then confessed to doing so. That act alone makes him a rather poor "terrorist." If this guy and bunch of his friends burned down several adult bookstores, then called the media (anonymously) and said why they were doing so and their campaign wasn't going to end till the good folk here in America stopped looking at nudie magazines, I'd agree with you that he did engage in a terrorist acts no matter how devoted to Christianity he or they are, dammit.

You bring up interesting points.

So terrorism requires (anonymously or not) releasing the motive behind the act?

Does it require others who...do the same? encourage you? agree with you? harbor you?

Terrorism has become so loosely defined (as of late and because it allows for political opportunism) that we need to redefine what it actually is.