The striking similarities between the KKK and Islamist jihadis

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By Jim Sciutto, Chief National Security Correspondent, CNN

http://www.cnn.com/2017/08/17/opinions/striking-similarities-between-jihadis-and-kkk-sciutto/index.html

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(CNN)The white nationalists and KKK members who marched on Charlottesville, Virginia, have a great deal in common with a separate group they would never lock arms with -- or march alongside, bearing store-bought tiki torches.

They are driven by a search for identity, sick devotion to a cause, and angry reaction to perceived victimization in a manner that is strikingly similar to another group of violent extremists: Islamist jihadis.

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I wrote at the time, "This feeling of being under attack has helped solidify a new Muslim identity -- a new cause -- of its own. Anti-Americanism is a form of Middle Eastern nationalism that transcends borders, even religion. ... They see it as resistance against American imperialism."

The narrative that extreme right-wingers in the United States and jihadis in the Middle East share goes something like this: "They" are destroying our world and our culture; they are outsiders who don't belong here and are inferior to us, they are taking away our well-being and way of life, and humiliating us in the process; to make matters worse, they are protected by elites who don't represent us and in fact have disdain for us; and we are the sole defenders of the true (fill in the blank) America or Islam.


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[uponit7771]

1. +1, there is LITTLE TO NO main differences between KKK, Nazis and ISIS they're all terrorist

[Initech]

2. The Nazis who marched in Charlottesville are terrorists!

And it's absolutely terrifying that we have a government and a president who is refusing to call them out as such! This is about protecting the safety of the people, not about protecting your status with your voting base!