In his book America’s Secret Jihad: the Hidden History of Religious Terrorism in the United States (2015), author Stuart Wexler brought the threat of Christian Identity to the forefront when he said the fringe theology “provided new justifications for terrorism after World War II.”
What is Christian Identity? Wexler defines it as follows: “Built on an idiosyncratic reading of the Book of Genesis that identifies Jews as the spawn of the devil, Christian Identity theologians, starting in the 1940s, spoke to a cosmic conspiracy, one where Jews manipulated sub-human minorities (notably blacks) in a covert war against the true chosen people: white Europeans.” Wexler goes on to write that “the past 60 years of domestic terrorism in the United States is unintelligible outside of the context of Christian Identity theology.”