The New Christian Terrorists

We all know that you can't make a Hollywood movie featuring Arab terrorists anymore. When the last Tom Clancy book was turned into a movie, the Arab terrorists mysterious transformed into white supremists.

The same is apparently true in New Jersey where you won't believe who the terrorists are in this terror drill (from The Corner):

BURLINGTON TOWNSHIP — 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.

Sounds pretty much like standard terror training fare, until you get to the next paragraph:

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.

Do they expel students in New Jersey for praying before class? And is this scenerio even remotely likely? It sounds like the cops are so afraid of the real terrorists that they won't even do simulations with them.