Last month, three young Muslims students were murdered in an apartment in North Carolina, in a crime allegedly stemming from a long-simmering dispute over parking. The man accused of committing the murders was reportedly an atheist who frequently posted anti-religious messages on his Facebook page.

Among the things he had posted on his Facebook page was an image asserting that despite their opposition to one another, “radical Christians” and “radical Muslims” actually hold similar ideological positions on a wide array of issues … and because of that, Colorado state representative Gordon Klingenschmitt is convinced that these three Muslims were really killed “because they were like Christians.”

Taking the Religious Right’s persecution complex to its absurd conclusion, Klingenschmitt cited this particular Facebook post on his “Pray In Jesus Name” program today as proof that this “radical left-wing atheist who is going around killing people of faith … killed these Muslims because they think like Christians”: