God Wrote The Bible
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Right-wing terrorism draws its inspiration from a variety of ideologies and
beliefs, including neo-fascism, neo-Nazism, racism and opposition
to foreigners and immigration. Incidents of this type of terrorism have been
sporadic with little or no international cooperation. Their
actions are generally poorly coordinated and there are few identifiable
organizations. Modern right wing terrorism began to appear in western
Europe in the 1980s and in eastern Europe following the collapse of the
Eastern Bloc.
The objective of right-wing terrorism is the overthrow existing governments
and their replacement with nationalist or fascist-oriented
governments.
During the 1980s, more than 75 right-wing extremists were prosecuted in the
United States for acts of terrorism, although they carried out only six
attacks during the decade.[8] The success of law enforcement in capturing and
preventing terrorists has been credited to their efforts to investigate
terrorists before they turned to violence. The April 19, 1995 attack on the
Murrah federal building in Oklahoma, by the right-wing extremist Timothy
McVeigh, which killed 168 people, would become the worst domestic terrorist
attack in American history. It was reported he had ties to a Michigan militia
group.
Eric Rudolph carried out a series of terrorist attacks between 1996 and 1998
including the Centennial Olympic Park bombing which claimed 2 lives and
injured 111, the plan being to cancel the games, claiming they were set up to
promote global socialism.[11] Rudolph has also confessed to the bombings of an
abortion clinic in the Atlanta suburb of Sandy Springs on January 16, 1997;
the Otherside Lounge of Atlanta lesbian bar on February 21, 1997, injuring
five; and an abortion clinic in Birmingham, Alabama on January 29, 1998,
killing Birmingham police officer and part-time clinic security guard Robert
Sanderson, and critically injuring nurse Emily Lyons.
Right-wing extremists have committed at least eight lethal terrorist attacks
in the United States that have resulted in the deaths of nine people since
9/11, according to data compiled by the New America Foundation. Another FBI
study reported that between January 1, 2007, and October 31, 2009, white
supremacists were involved in 53 acts of violence, 40 of which were assaults
directed primarily at African-Americans, seven of which were murders and the
rest of which were threats, arson and intimidation.