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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsMost Terrorists in the US are right-wing, not Muslim: Report
A joint project by the Investigative Fund at the Nation Institute, a nonprofit media center, and Reveal from the Center for Investigative Reporting has found that within the past nine years, right-wing extremists plotted or carried out nearly twice as many terrorist attacks as Islamist extremists. Of the 115 right-wing incidents, police only foiled 35 percent. Compare this to the 63 Islamist terrorism cases, where police foiled 76 percent of the planned attacks.
Right-wing extremists were not only more successful, they were often more deadly, too. From 2008 to 2016, a third of right-wing attacks involved fatalities, compared to 13 percent of Islamist attacks. It should be noted, however, that Islamist extremists killed more people overall, with a death toll of 90 people compared to 79.
In a statement pointing out the higher rate of successful, right-wing terrorist attacks, the Investigative Fund said: This project quantifies just how irrational Trump and the GOP's fixation on 'radical Islamic terrorism' as the greatest security threat is.
Fixation might be the right word. The president has yet to acknowledge the problem of right-wing violence, remaining uncharacteristically silent after an Islamophobic attack on a mosque in London that left one man dead. (Trump tweeted about the three incidents of Islamist terrorism that have hit the U.K. capital in recent months.)
Part of the problem, the Investigative Fund and Reveal suggest, are the people that Trump has advising him. Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn, the presidents former national security adviser, had said that fear of Muslims is rational, and that he doesnt see Islam as a religion. Trump advisor Steve Bannon has referred to Islam as a religion of submission, and is believed to have been a strong advocate for the ban on certain nationalities entering the U.S. (As the former head of Breitbart News, Bannon boasted that the organization was the platform for the alt-right.)
The new administration, says Reveal and the Investigative Fund, is therefore unlikely to change the culture whereby federal authorities disproportionately focus on potential Islamist extremists. Of the incidents the two organizations registered, federal authorities handled 91 percent of the Islamist ones and just 60 percent of the right-wing ones.
Right-wing extremists were not only more successful, they were often more deadly, too. From 2008 to 2016, a third of right-wing attacks involved fatalities, compared to 13 percent of Islamist attacks. It should be noted, however, that Islamist extremists killed more people overall, with a death toll of 90 people compared to 79.
In a statement pointing out the higher rate of successful, right-wing terrorist attacks, the Investigative Fund said: This project quantifies just how irrational Trump and the GOP's fixation on 'radical Islamic terrorism' as the greatest security threat is.
Fixation might be the right word. The president has yet to acknowledge the problem of right-wing violence, remaining uncharacteristically silent after an Islamophobic attack on a mosque in London that left one man dead. (Trump tweeted about the three incidents of Islamist terrorism that have hit the U.K. capital in recent months.)
Part of the problem, the Investigative Fund and Reveal suggest, are the people that Trump has advising him. Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn, the presidents former national security adviser, had said that fear of Muslims is rational, and that he doesnt see Islam as a religion. Trump advisor Steve Bannon has referred to Islam as a religion of submission, and is believed to have been a strong advocate for the ban on certain nationalities entering the U.S. (As the former head of Breitbart News, Bannon boasted that the organization was the platform for the alt-right.)
The new administration, says Reveal and the Investigative Fund, is therefore unlikely to change the culture whereby federal authorities disproportionately focus on potential Islamist extremists. Of the incidents the two organizations registered, federal authorities handled 91 percent of the Islamist ones and just 60 percent of the right-wing ones.
http://www.newsweek.com/right-wing-extremism-islamist-terrorism-donald-trump-steve-bannon-628381
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Most Terrorists in the US are right-wing, not Muslim: Report (Original Post)
CousinIT
Jun 2017
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Orrex
(63,203 posts)1. "Water also found to be wet, right after this."
Hoyt
(54,770 posts)2. As above, no chit. We'd be better off keeping close tabs on 3%ers, other militia groups, and wannabe
than concentrating on Muslims.
freddyvh
(276 posts)3. does anyone remember a few years ago....
where the DHS released a report and warning on right wing terrorism that the GOP bashed mercifully?
CousinIT
(9,240 posts)4. Yep. I do. The report was correct. n/t
it's fake news right?
at least that is what they will say about this article
Awsi Dooger
(14,565 posts)6. I didn't need a report
Blatantly obvious. I wish I had been on that panel with Newt Gingrich the other day when he tried to pretend liberals were the root. Of course, he has a history in that regard, blaming the Susan Smith drownings on liberalism. Meanwhile her family was long term right wing.
democratisphere
(17,235 posts)7. Many of them reside in Congress and the WH.