BachmannRep. Michele Bachmann returned to “Understanding the Times” with end-times pastor Jan Markell to talk about the “Criminalization of Christianity” last week. Bachmann has been a regular guest of Markell’s in the past, discussing a range of topics from homosexuality to Jesus’ return. This time, the topic was the labeling of Christians as terrorists.

“It isn’t that they don’t want to use the word ‘terrorism,’ it’s who they’re using this word against,” Bachmann told Markell last Tuesday, in reference to a Homeland Security report on rightwing extremism. “And as you had stated correctly, in this report — which I have read, it’s about a nine-page report I believe, if I recall correctly — the right-wing extremists report, they include people who believe in end-time prophecies, pro-life. It is appalling the people that they named.”

She continued, “People who don’t want government to be so large, they are on the list of potential terrorists… People need to realize that, truly, our freedoms are more at risk than they have been at any other time in recent history.”

The show description sarcastically refers to Christians as “the new Taliban”:

“Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-MN) and others, weigh in about the efforts to marginalize, silence and even persecute Christians by the new administration… Christians are clearly the new Taliban. What can we do to fight back? We are deemed ‘right-wing extremists’ while ‘left-wing extremists’ glorified.”

Hat tip: Dump Bachmann