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White Americans Are Biggest Terror Threat in U.S.: Study
http://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/white-americans-are-biggest-terror-threat-u-s-study-n380931https://www.pri.org/stories/2015-06-24/white-americans-are-biggest-terror-threat-united-states
White Americans are the biggest terror threat in the United States, according to a study by the New America Foundation. The Washington-based research organization did a review of “terror” attacks on US soil since Sept. 11, 2001 and found that most of them were carried out by radical anti-government groups or white supremacists.
Almost twice as many people have died in attacks by right-wing groups in America than have died in attacks by Muslim extremists. Of the 26 attacks since 9/11 that the group defined as terror, 19 were carried out by non-Muslims. Yet there are no white Americans languishing inside the prison camp at Guantanamo Bay. And there are no drones dropping bombs on gatherings of military-age males in the country's lawless border regions.
Attacks by right-wing groups get comparatively little coverage in the news media. Most people will struggle to remember the shooting at a Sikh temple in Wisconsin that killed six people in 2012. A man who associated with neo-Nazi groups carried out that shooting. There was also the married couple in Las Vegas who walked into a pizza shop and murdered two police officers. They left a swastika on one of the bodies before killing a third person in a Wal-Mart parking lot. Such attacks are not limited to one part of the country. In 2011, two white supremacists went on a shooting spree in the Pacific Northwest, killing four people.
More from GlobalPost: Turns out people get angry when you say white Americans are terrorists, too
Terrorism is hard to define. But here is its basic meaning: ideological violence. In its study, the New America Foundation took a narrow view of what could be considered a terror attack. Most mass shootings, for instance, like Sandy Hook or the Aurora, Colorado movie theater shooting — both in 2012 — weren't included. Also not included was the killing of three Muslim students in North Carolina earlier this year. The shooter was a neighbor and had strong opinions about religion. But he also had strong opinions about parking spaces and a history of anger issues. So that shooting was left off the list.
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Radical Christian terrorism. Someone needs to call this exactly what it is, since language seems so important to some. These are mostly radical Christian terrorists.
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The ideological divide isn't liberals versus conservatives, mostly because conservatives are conservative in name only.
The battle is liberals-who wish to make appropriate-size government better, versus "conservatives"-who are actually ANARCHISTS. Why? "Conservatives"
think Ryan) are the exact opposite of liberals. Not make government better, but destroy key areas of government they identify as profit centers for private businesses.
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