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RichA
May 26, 2021, 7:08:27 AM5/26/21
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They were cheering on Christian terrorist Dearbourn as he shot up a
Planned Parenthood Office and right wingers hold the same basic ideilogy
as radical islamic terrorists.
The Growing Right-Wing Terror Threat
By CHARLES KURZMAN and DAVID SCHANZER
THIS month, the headlines were about a Muslim man in Boston who was
accused of threatening police officers with a knife. Last month, two
Muslims attacked an anti-Islamic conference in Garland, Tex. The month
before, a Muslim man was charged with plotting to drive a truck bomb onto
a military installation in Kansas. If you keep up with the news, you know
that a small but steady stream of American Muslims, radicalized by
overseas extremists, are engaging in violence here in the United States.
But headlines can mislead. The main terrorist threat in the United States
is not from violent Muslim extremists, but from right-wing extremists.
Just ask the police.
In a survey we conducted with the Police Executive Research Forum last
year of 382 law enforcement agencies, 74 percent reported anti-government
extremism as one of the top three terrorist threats in their jurisdiction;
39 percent listed extremism connected with Al Qaeda or like-minded
terrorist organizations. And only 3 percent identified the threat from
Muslim extremists as severe, compared with 7 percent for anti-government
and other forms of extremism.
The self-proclaimed Islamic State’s efforts to radicalize American
Muslims, which began just after the survey ended, may have increased
threat perceptions somewhat, but not by much, as we found in follow-up
interviews over the past year with counterterrorism specialists at 19 law
enforcement agencies. These officers, selected from urban and rural areas
around the country, said that radicalization from the Middle East was a
concern, but not as dangerous as radicalization among right-wing
extremists.
An officer from a large metropolitan area said that “militias, neo-Nazis
and sovereign citizens” are the biggest threat we face in regard to
extremism. One officer explained that he ranked the right-wing threat
higher because “it is an emerging threat that we don’t have as good of a
grip on, even with our intelligence unit, as we do with the Al Shabab/Al
Qaeda issue, which we have been dealing with for some time.” An officer on
the West Coast explained that the “sovereign citizen” anti-government
threat has “really taken off,” whereas terrorism by American Muslim is
something “we just haven’t experienced yet.”
Last year, for example, a man who identified with the sovereign citizen
movement — which claims not to recognize the authority of federal or local
government — attacked a courthouse in Forsyth County, Ga., firing an
assault rifle at police officers and trying to cover his approach with
tear gas and smoke grenades. The suspect was killed by the police, who
returned fire. In Nevada, anti-government militants reportedly walked up
to and shot two police officers at a restaurant, then placed a “Don’t
tread on me” flag on their bodies. An anti-government extremist in
Pennsylvania was arrested on suspicion of shooting two state troopers,
killing one of them, before leading authorities on a 48-day manhunt. A
right-wing militant in Texas declared a “revolution” and was arrested on
suspicion of attempting to rob an armored car in order to buy weapons and
explosives and attack law enforcement. These individuals on the fringes of
right-wing politics increasingly worry law enforcement officials.
Law enforcement agencies around the country are training their officers to
recognize signs of anti-government extremism and to exercise caution
during routine traffic stops, criminal investigations and other
interactions with potential extremists. “The threat is real,” says the
handout from one training program sponsored by the Department of Justice.
Since 2000, the handout notes, 25 law enforcement officers have been
killed by right-wing extremists, who share a “fear that government will
confiscate firearms” and a “belief in the approaching collapse of
government and the economy.”
Despite public anxiety about extremists inspired by Al Qaeda and the
Islamic State, the number of violent plots by such individuals has
remained very low. Since 9/11, an average of nine American Muslims per
year have been involved in an average of six terrorism-related plots
against targets in the United States. Most were disrupted, but the 20
plots that were carried out accounted for 50 fatalities over the past 13
and a half years.
In contrast, right-wing extremists averaged 337 attacks per year in the
decade after 9/11, causing a total of 254 fatalities, according to a study
by Arie Perliger, a professor at the United States Military Academy’s
Combating Terrorism Center. The toll has increased since the study was
released in 2012.
Other data sets, using different definitions of political violence, tell
comparable stories. The Global Terrorism Database maintained by the Start
Center at the University of Maryland includes 65 attacks in the United
States associated with right-wing ideologies and 24 by Muslim extremists
since 9/11. The International Security Program at the New America
Foundation identifies 39 fatalities from “non-jihadist” homegrown
extremists and 26 fatalities from “jihadist” extremists.
Meanwhile, terrorism of all forms has accounted for a tiny proportion of
violence in America. There have been more than 215,000 murders in the
United States since 9/11. For every person killed by Muslim extremists,
there have been 4,300 homicides from other threats.
Public debates on terrorism focus intensely on Muslims. But this focus
does not square with the low number of plots in the United States by
Muslims, and it does a disservice to a minority group that suffers from
increasingly hostile public opinion. As state and local police agencies
remind us, right-wing, anti-government extremism is the leading source of
ideological violence in America.
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/06/16/opinion/the-other-terror-threat.html?_r=
0
Planned Parenthood Office and right wingers hold the same basic ideilogy
as radical islamic terrorists.
The Growing Right-Wing Terror Threat
By CHARLES KURZMAN and DAVID SCHANZER
THIS month, the headlines were about a Muslim man in Boston who was
accused of threatening police officers with a knife. Last month, two
Muslims attacked an anti-Islamic conference in Garland, Tex. The month
before, a Muslim man was charged with plotting to drive a truck bomb onto
a military installation in Kansas. If you keep up with the news, you know
that a small but steady stream of American Muslims, radicalized by
overseas extremists, are engaging in violence here in the United States.
But headlines can mislead. The main terrorist threat in the United States
is not from violent Muslim extremists, but from right-wing extremists.
Just ask the police.
In a survey we conducted with the Police Executive Research Forum last
year of 382 law enforcement agencies, 74 percent reported anti-government
extremism as one of the top three terrorist threats in their jurisdiction;
39 percent listed extremism connected with Al Qaeda or like-minded
terrorist organizations. And only 3 percent identified the threat from
Muslim extremists as severe, compared with 7 percent for anti-government
and other forms of extremism.
The self-proclaimed Islamic State’s efforts to radicalize American
Muslims, which began just after the survey ended, may have increased
threat perceptions somewhat, but not by much, as we found in follow-up
interviews over the past year with counterterrorism specialists at 19 law
enforcement agencies. These officers, selected from urban and rural areas
around the country, said that radicalization from the Middle East was a
concern, but not as dangerous as radicalization among right-wing
extremists.
An officer from a large metropolitan area said that “militias, neo-Nazis
and sovereign citizens” are the biggest threat we face in regard to
extremism. One officer explained that he ranked the right-wing threat
higher because “it is an emerging threat that we don’t have as good of a
grip on, even with our intelligence unit, as we do with the Al Shabab/Al
Qaeda issue, which we have been dealing with for some time.” An officer on
the West Coast explained that the “sovereign citizen” anti-government
threat has “really taken off,” whereas terrorism by American Muslim is
something “we just haven’t experienced yet.”
Last year, for example, a man who identified with the sovereign citizen
movement — which claims not to recognize the authority of federal or local
government — attacked a courthouse in Forsyth County, Ga., firing an
assault rifle at police officers and trying to cover his approach with
tear gas and smoke grenades. The suspect was killed by the police, who
returned fire. In Nevada, anti-government militants reportedly walked up
to and shot two police officers at a restaurant, then placed a “Don’t
tread on me” flag on their bodies. An anti-government extremist in
Pennsylvania was arrested on suspicion of shooting two state troopers,
killing one of them, before leading authorities on a 48-day manhunt. A
right-wing militant in Texas declared a “revolution” and was arrested on
suspicion of attempting to rob an armored car in order to buy weapons and
explosives and attack law enforcement. These individuals on the fringes of
right-wing politics increasingly worry law enforcement officials.
Law enforcement agencies around the country are training their officers to
recognize signs of anti-government extremism and to exercise caution
during routine traffic stops, criminal investigations and other
interactions with potential extremists. “The threat is real,” says the
handout from one training program sponsored by the Department of Justice.
Since 2000, the handout notes, 25 law enforcement officers have been
killed by right-wing extremists, who share a “fear that government will
confiscate firearms” and a “belief in the approaching collapse of
government and the economy.”
Despite public anxiety about extremists inspired by Al Qaeda and the
Islamic State, the number of violent plots by such individuals has
remained very low. Since 9/11, an average of nine American Muslims per
year have been involved in an average of six terrorism-related plots
against targets in the United States. Most were disrupted, but the 20
plots that were carried out accounted for 50 fatalities over the past 13
and a half years.
In contrast, right-wing extremists averaged 337 attacks per year in the
decade after 9/11, causing a total of 254 fatalities, according to a study
by Arie Perliger, a professor at the United States Military Academy’s
Combating Terrorism Center. The toll has increased since the study was
released in 2012.
Other data sets, using different definitions of political violence, tell
comparable stories. The Global Terrorism Database maintained by the Start
Center at the University of Maryland includes 65 attacks in the United
States associated with right-wing ideologies and 24 by Muslim extremists
since 9/11. The International Security Program at the New America
Foundation identifies 39 fatalities from “non-jihadist” homegrown
extremists and 26 fatalities from “jihadist” extremists.
Meanwhile, terrorism of all forms has accounted for a tiny proportion of
violence in America. There have been more than 215,000 murders in the
United States since 9/11. For every person killed by Muslim extremists,
there have been 4,300 homicides from other threats.
Public debates on terrorism focus intensely on Muslims. But this focus
does not square with the low number of plots in the United States by
Muslims, and it does a disservice to a minority group that suffers from
increasingly hostile public opinion. As state and local police agencies
remind us, right-wing, anti-government extremism is the leading source of
ideological violence in America.
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/06/16/opinion/the-other-terror-threat.html?_r=
0
RichA
May 26, 2021, 8:28:51 AM5/26/21
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May 26, 2021, 2:03:01 PM5/26/21
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"RichA" wrote in message news:XnsAD3656...@95.216.243.224...
What did you expect to hear from a birdcage liner?
>
> But headlines can mislead. The main terrorist threat in the United States
> is not from violent Muslim extremists, but from right-wing extremists.
> Just ask the police.
>
> http://www.nytimes.com/2015/06/16/opinion/the-other-terror-threat.html?_r=0
> But headlines can mislead. The main terrorist threat in the United States
> is not from violent Muslim extremists, but from right-wing extremists.
> Just ask the police.
>
What did you expect to hear from a birdcage liner?
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