Sirhan Sirhan is indeed, or was, a Christian, but contrast this prominent identification of him as a “Christian-born Palestinian” with the mainstream media’s reticence about identifying jihad killers as Muslim. Sirhan didn’t murder RFK because Christianity teaches “Slay the Kennedys wherever you find them”; he killed him because he, like many Arab Christians, had imbibed the Islamic jihadist perspective regarding Israel.
Contrast this story with this one, also from NBC, about the San Bernardino jihad killers Syed Rizwan Farook and Tashfeen Malik, who explicitly and avowedly murdered people in the name of Islam and in accord with its teachings. It says in the headline that they “may have been radicalized,” but doesn’t say what they were radicalized into. We hear that the authorities were searching for a motive — implying that it wasn’t actually a jihad attack — and then, eight paragraphs into the piece, we learn that Farook “had been in touch with people in the Los Angeles area who have expressed jihadi-oriented views.” In the 21st paragraph we learn that Farook regularly attended a mosque, and in the 25th paragraph, the word “Muslim” appears for the first time.
The mainstream media is always searching for people it can dub “Christian terrorists,” so as to support the dominant dogma that all religions teach love and peace and all are equally susceptible to being “hijacked.” And so Sirhan is readily identified as a Christian while every effort is made to obfuscate the Islamic identity and motive of jihadis.
“Sirhan Sirhan, Robert Kennedy’s Assassin, to Seek Parole for 14th Time,” by Alex Johnson, NBC News, February 10, 2016:
Robert F. Kennedy’s assassin will seek parole for the 14th time Wednesday morning — almost 48 years after he shot and killed the Democratic senator for New York.
Kennedy was shot on June 5, 1968, at the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles just after he’d won the state’s Democratic presidential primary. The younger brother of President John F. Kennedy died the next day.
Sirhan B. Sirhan, a Christian-born Palestinian from Jordan who opposed Kennedy’s support for Israel, was wrestled to the ground with a gun in his hand and later convicted of the killing. He was sentenced to death, but the sentence was commuted to life in prison after California banned the death penalty….

jihad3tracker says
WHAT ELSE CAN WE EXPECT FROM LEFTIST NON-RELIGIOUS MEDIA WHO HATE THE MESSAGE OF PEACE EMBEDDED IN CHRISTIANITY ???
Annak says
Considering they eerily seem to inhabit a similar mind-set or the ” same spirit” indeed we can expect nothing else. Anti Christian leftists are overjoyed at their new fellow Judeo-Christian-hating buddies, the Muslims , so welcome them with open arms , and will support, appease and defend them with all they have.
Such loyalty !
What a shame they one day will painfully discover they will not receive the same loyalty back as the sad fate of all traitors has always been,: being hated by those they betrayed, but also by those they betrayed them for, who as with the communists, blow away the traitors first when they take-over as they know too much and have proved they are not to be trusted, so might betray them too !
Oh, the irony .
Shane says
The liberal MSM is on the side of the Muslims against Christianity, America, and the West.
john spielman says
NBC=No Body Cares what they say, they lie and manipulate the news to satisfy their leftist progressive agenda
deja vu says
‘…a Christian-born Palestinian from Jordan who opposed Kennedy’s support for Israel..’
That disqualifies Sirhan Sirhan immediately. No genuine Christian will oppose Israel’s right to exist. The hatred of Israel stems way back from the time of Ishmael and Isaac, Esau and Jacob.
A Muslim has no choice if they’re born into a Muslim family. Nobody is born a Christian; they come to Christ individually of their own free will. Allah demands and forces; Yahweh loves and His great love draws people to Him.
The MSM is ignorant of both Christianity and Islam and makes no distinction between them. It’s high time they bothered to at least have a glimmering of knowledge before making their fatuous claims.
mortimer says
Sirhan was a Rosicrucian cultist and Arab racist.
somehistory says
You have stated it correctly. No one is *born* Christian. One may be born into a family that are Christian because they have dedicated their lives to Christ and His Heavenly Father and made a vow to do the will of God, but the baby will have to grow and learn. As Christ Himself said, “Taking in knowledge…of God and Jesus…means everlasting life.” And “Obey my commandments.”
A newborn has not any knowledge and is not automatically a Christian. One may even decide it is not what they wish even if their entire family are Christian.
People who are not Christian, don’t really have an understanding of what it means to be Christian. To them, to these *news* people, it is just a label.
This killer was not a Christian when he murdered Kennedy and if he has not repented, turned away from his former self and dedicated himself to God due to faith in Christ, he is still not Christian.
But it suits the devil’s purpose and evil plan to have sirhan declared to be in order to say Christians are no different than the worst of the worst.
Mike Proulx says
Very well put, the world talks of religion and when we look at what that word actually means it is to be clothes with. Unless we are clothes with the Righteousness of our Lord Jesus Christ when we stand and the Judgement seat of Christ and God the Father we have on but filthy rags. All these so call religions are but filthy rags in the sight of God. Of course most of the leftist don’t understand this. they are righteous in their own eyes.
God the Father only accepts the Righteousness of His own Son, as we do not have the ability to save ourselves only by accepting the free Gift of His Salvation can we be saved from eternal damnation and by the shed blood of Christ on the Cross are we made clean. Its not God’s will that any should perish, those who do chose to.
Mo says
@ deja vu
“That disqualifies Sirhan Sirhan immediately. No genuine Christian will oppose Israel’s right to exist. The hatred of Israel stems way back from the time of Ishmael and Isaac, Esau and Jacob.
A Muslim has no choice if they’re born into a Muslim family. Nobody is born a Christian; they come to Christ individually of their own free will. Allah demands and forces; Yahweh loves and His great love draws people to Him.”
Absolutely right. Thank you for saving me a post!
“The MSM is ignorant of both Christianity and Islam and makes no distinction between them. It’s high time they bothered to at least have a glimmering of knowledge before making their fatuous claims.”
It’s not just ignorance. It’s deliberate. Leftists have to maintain the fantasy that all religions are more or less the same. Their minds cannot even countenance that this is not so.
mortimer says
If the media’s cultural Marxists can find one or two terrorists who aren’t Muslim, they appear to say, ‘See, see! We told you, Islam is the religion of peace!’ … as if their ‘tu quoque’ argument is validated by a small sample of terrorists who are not Muslim!
Sirhan Sirhan identified his motive in the assassination: to prevent arming Israel with bombers! Sirhan’s motivation was pure nationalism and not religion in any way. Hamas, on the other hand, appeals to religion as the main reason for attacking Israel, but encourages the West to think of it as a post-colonial liberation struggle…thus ‘selling’ the cause wrapped in Marxist language and speaking out of both sides of their mouth.
As an adult, Sirhan changed church denominations several times, joining Baptist and Seventh-day Adventist churches. Then in 1966, he joined the occult organization Ancient Mystical Order of the Rose Cross, commonly known as Rosicrucians…a cult. In other words, Sirhan was not a Christian at the time of the shooting.
The crushing fact the Leftards are ignoring is that most of the terrorists are Muslims. Furthermore, Islamic terrorism is unique, though, since it has the full weight of the Koran, the Sira, the hadiths, Islamic classical commentaries, Islamic history and Sharia law behind it. In 2015, between 50 and 100 people were killed by jihadists every day.
Islamic terrorism is a fundamental and central part of Islam. Jihad is the highest act in Islam…the hump of the camel. Many have claimed that we are now in the middle of ‘The Third Great Jihad’.
Though not a Muslim, Sirhan was not a Christian at the time of Robert Kennedy’s murder, but a cult member. So NBC’s article was incorrect and misleading and bad journalism.
Disgusted says
I resent paying to keep this p.o.s fed, clothed, sheltered AND ALIVE. Forty-eight years? That money could be used for people who are WORTH keeping alive, not this thing.
mortimer says
MOTIVE? How about RACISM?
In his own words, Sirhan Sirhan has claimed he was motivated by Arab racism.
Sirhan’s nominally Christian family was immersed in the Muslim atmosphere of Jordan which had occupied the West Bank and annexed it. Sirhan was indoctrinated into anti-Jewish hatred and Arab victimhood through Jordanian school textbooks.
Jordanian texbooks were openly racist and demonized Jews as ‘animals’, etc., and called for Arabs to ‘liberate’ Muslim ‘holy places,’ and Muslim land. He said he was inspired by a teacher who spoke about the Arab warrior Saladin…who was actually Kurdish, but led the Muslims.
celticwarriorcanada says
If NBC really wanted to be more technical, perhaps they should have checked out the book PADDY WACKED by Irish American Author T. J. ENGLISH . There is an awesome chapter in this book called JOSEPH KENNEDY : THE PATRIARCH ! Seems like Joe Kennedy FOR GOT to teach his SMART ALEX SON BOBBY to RESPECT the IRISH AND ITALIAN CATHOLIC GANGSTERS LIKE SAM GIACANO who probably made it possible for BOTH JOHN AND BOBBY TO BE ELECTED . But of course NBC looks no further than the SCRIPT DRAFTED by THE OBAMA KERRY DEPARTMENT OF PROPAGANDA !!! But of course Engish’s WELL DOCUMENTED BOOK is only His opinion !
Kepha says
I’ve heard from a number of people who had connections to law enforcement that Joseph Kennedy, Dr., once our esteemed Ambassador to the Court of St. James, had underworld ties.
gravenimage says
NBC makes a point of identifying killer of Robert Kennedy as “Christian”
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If it hadn’t been for the long-running Jihad against Israel, Sirhan Sirhan would not have murdered Bobby Kennedy. Some “Palestinian” Christians adopt the homicidal antisemitism of their Muslim overlords.
Moreover, it was Yasser Arafat–Muslim head of the PLO–who ordered PLO terrorists to target Robert Kennedy.
Jack Diamond says
George Habash, founder of the PFLP terrorists, former member of the PLO, a Communist, was also a “Palestinian Christian” by family label, again having nothing to do with his actual beliefs. Sirhan was correctly identified above as a would-be occultist and Rosicrucian, his diary read at trial seemed to often be an exhibit of “automatic writing” much of which he could not recall or even say what it meant. Except where he was “fired up” about wanting to kill someone for favoring Israel: RFK, LBJ, Ambassador Goldberg. Sirhan did not kill as a Christian, unlike how Muslims kill in the name of Islam. Kennedy was assassinated for “Palestinianism”–for the jihad against Israel- regardless of whether Sirhan himself was a Muslim or a Christlam or a Nasserite or a Communist or a theosophist practicing ‘white magic’, or was acting for the PLO. Incidentally, in 1973 Arafat ordered the murder of 3 U.S. diplomats (including Ambassador Cleo Noel) held hostage when the American Embassy in Khartoum was stormed by members of Black September. Among their demands was the release of Sirhan SIrhan from prison.
gravenimage says
All true, Jack. This has everything to do with the Jihad against Israel, and nothing to do with Christianity.
KrazyKafir says
Sirhan embraced his dhimmitude with pride.
Paul says
The fact that a Christian was once responsible for an act of terrorism
suddenly makes me feel so much less concerned about the call
for global islamic jihad and the potential threat to all of us. It gives me
a nice warm feeling. Thank you NBC.
gravenimage says
+1
Paul says
🙂
Kepha says
I’ll let God judge whether Sirhan Sirhan was or is a Christian or not. I cannot find a place where the Bible permits Christians to boast of their moral perfection; but I can find many warnings that we are sinners who have a place before God only through the righteousness, shed blood, and resurrection of our Savior Jesus Christ. And I do not know the sate of Sirhan’s heart, whether he is repentant or not.
My take on the Falastin Arab terrorism of that time–including the lone wolves who thought they’d to their two bits’ worth on their own–is that it was also part of a “great cause” at the time–“Third World” so-called liberation (the kind that put mass murderers like Mao Zedong, Saloth Sar, Fidel Castro, and the like in power; and raised thugs like Yasir Arafat and Ernesto Guevara Serna y Lynch to celebrity status). Sirhan was caught up in the emotions of those Silly ‘Sixties along with a good many others.
Angemon says
Rosicrucian.
Truthiocity says
Pan Arabism, which the PLO was associated somewhat with, had the stated stance that all Arabs were brothers (basically “if you non muslims do what we say, and join us against our enemies, we might stop picking on you so much”). Christian Arabs were attracted to the idea because they thought the Muslim Arabs might stop treating them so poorly. But basically it was just the same old “Me against my brother, my brother and I against our cousins, our cousins and I against…” Christian Arabs hoped if they joined the Muslims against others, they might be treated better. Eventually.
How did that work out for them? Fine for those living under secular leaders. Not so fine for those living under jihadists.
After living under PLO and Hamas rule, Christian arabs are utterly terrified to say anything about how they’re discriminated against. Preferring to say nothing when asked who is to blame for their situation. (If it were Israel, they’d be able to say so freely).
mortimer says
truthiocity wrote: “pan-Arabism”
Yep…that’s it. I like your handle.
BigBob99 says
This has something to do with pan arabism. It was the idea, a bit connected to baathism, that all arabs are one people. So the christians should go along with whatever the muslims want and the muslims should maybe stop picking on the christians while anyone is looking. Eventually. Maybe. We’ll see. Just don’t provoke us and you’ll be fine. We promise. So christians sided with the people who’d oppressed them against other enemies in the hopes that they themselves would be treated better.
James Scott says
For once I disagree with you, Robert. Looking at the context, it seems to me that NBC merely pointed out Sirhan’s Christian heritage to help dispel the widely-held belief that the assassination of RFK was “The first act of Islamic terrorism on US soil,” which is a flat-out revisionist lie that I’ve heard promulgated time and time again. I don’t see the reference as insinuating he was a “Christian terrorist” at all. That’s reading far too much into the network’s mention, IMHO.
In fact, one doesn’t have to invoke Islam at all to fully account for Sirhan’s motivations and actions. Sirhan Sirhan was and is an ARAB NATIONALIST who killed someone he perceived to be an enemy, and a threat to his cause: namely the destruction of the State of Israel. To suggest a priori that an Arab HAS to be influenced by Islam in order to form a political hatred for Israel is self-evidently fatuous. Simple Arab pride and/or tribal xenophobia are fully capable of producing anti-Jewish sentiments all on their own, wouldn’t you agree?
Carolyne says
While it is technically true that no one is “Born” a Christian, certainly it cannot be denied that those born into a Christian family tend to identify as Christians themselves. Sirhan Sirhan’s actions were certainly not those of a Christian as I understand the Christian philosophy. While I am not an admirer of the Kennedy family, with the exception of Eunice Shriver who worked tirelessly for handicapped people, that does not give me or anyone else the right to kill them.
So while Sirhan Sirhan claimed Christianity, his heart was most certainly Islamic. It depends on the milieu one is raised in.
mortimer says
Sirhan wanted to reunite ‘Palestine’ into one country from the Irag border to the Mediterranean. He was raised a Jordanian and wished ‘Jordan’ to include the Jewish homeland which would thereupon cease to exist.
I doubt his thinking was deeper than that.
Champ says
Seems that anyone can be considered a Christian just because they *say* so? …look at obama! He also serves as a prime example that this is not always the case.
Mike Proulx says
What difference does this make any ways, what one professes to be and what one is are two different things.
Jesus even told us.
Wherefore by their fruits ye shall know them.
Not every one that saith unto me, Lord, Lord, shall enter into the kingdom of heaven; but he that doeth the will of my Father which is in heaven.
Many will say to me in that day, Lord, Lord, have we not prophesied in thy name? and in thy name have cast out devils? and in thy name done many wonderful works?
And then will I profess unto them, I never knew you: depart from me, ye that work iniquity.
Read your Bible folks and get to Know Jesus as Saviour, He’s the only path to True Peace everything else are but futile attempts.
I challenge Christian all over the world to pray for Muslims, in these dark days that the Glorious Light of Christ and Saving Knowledge of God would shine in their hearts and save them from deceitful lies.
I met so many along my path that were really beautiful people, truly searching for the Truth.
Carolyne says
Champ, I can’t agree more. “the future must not belong to those who slander the prophet of Islam,” he said. I say the future must not belong to Islam. In fact, Mohammed was so terrible, it is not possible to slander him.
Carolyne says
By what way would one identify a Christian other than his identifying himself as such? Certainly another person couldn’t proclaim a person as a Christian. Is’t this getting a little silly?
Jack says
It’s not possible to give Sirhan Sirhans’ victim a reprieve from his outcome, death. So, even if Sirhan is remorseful today, that would be between him and G-d. Will Kennedy rise from the dead and live 38 years he never lived and will his family enjoy the father, husband, uncle and brother who was lost to them. Sirhan can view his life sentence as life and a period of reflection and atonement since the Afterlife is much longer and it will benefit him to pray for forgiveness. Does he still maintain it wasn’t him? Yes, to all those who wrote in that the Media will make an Apples/Oranges comparison to soil Christianity thinking somehow it will deflect from Islam just as they do with us, Jews, and through useful idiots; part of the BHO gang. It doesn’t fit since no Rabbi or Pastor is instructing his Flock to go kill Muslims citing passages of the 0ld or New Testament. If they tried to do so they would be condemned. When has CAIR, MB, ISNA condemned these interpretations without qualification. Iran and Saudi Arabia both agree and sentence just IS and why aren’t there Expose’s on this fact?
Lenny Thetruth says
He is a Christian born Palestinian from Jordan? Does that make any sense? And, he can’t remember doing this.
So, I had a Lebanese Christian friend who went on an anti-Israel rant. I asked him what that was all about. He claimed Israel was working against the US while accepting aid from us. So, he is no longer my friend. Yes, you can buy into the “stupid” narritive. But, Christianity is not about killing. It is about protecting.