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hue

(4,949 posts)
Tue Jun 10, 2014, 05:11 PM Jun 2014

U.S. right wing extremists more deadly than jihadists

http://edition.cnn.com/2014/04/14/opinion/bergen-sterman-kansas-shooting/

(CNN) -- On Sunday, a man shot and killed a 14-year-old boy and his grandfather at the Jewish Community Center of Greater Kansas City and then drove to a nearby Jewish retirement community where he shot and killed a third person. Police arrested a suspect, Frazier Glenn Cross, who shouted "Heil Hitler" after he was taken into custody.

Cross, who also goes by Frazier Glenn Miller, is a well-known right wing extremist who founded the Carolina Knights of the Ku Klux Klan and the White Patriot Party, according to the Southern Poverty Law Center.

Now let's do the thought experiment in which instead of shouting "Heil Hitler" after he was arrested, the suspect had shouted "Allahu Akbar." Only two days before the first anniversary of the Boston Marathon bombings, this simple switch of words would surely have greatly increased the extent and type of coverage the incident received.

Yet the death toll in the shootings in Kansas is similar to that of last year's Boston Marathon bombings, where three people were killed and the suspects later killed a police officer as they tried to evade capture. (Many more, of course, were also wounded in the Boston attacks; 16 men, women and children lost limbs.)

In fact, since 9/11 extremists affiliated with a variety of far-right wing ideologies, including white supremacists, anti-abortion extremists and anti-government militants, have killed more people in the United States than have extremists motivated by al Qaeda's ideology. According to a count by the New America Foundation, right wing extremists have killed 34 people in the United States for political reasons since 9/11. (The total includes the latest shootings in Kansas, which are being classified as a hate crime).
"Since 9/11 extremists affiliated with a variety of far-right wing ideologies...have killed more people in the United States than have extremists motivated by al Qaeda's ideology."

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This was prolifically published in April & yet is proven time & time again!

By contrast, terrorists motivated by al Qaeda's ideology have killed 21 people in the United States since 9/11.
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U.S. right wing extremists more deadly than jihadists (Original Post) hue Jun 2014 OP
And Black Prez and Black AG arent allowed to do anything about it, not really randys1 Jun 2014 #1
Only if you add the qualifier "In a place with hundreds millions of right wing Americans Donald Ian Rankin Jun 2014 #2
Had to be said libodem Jun 2014 #3
Of course they are. Maedhros Jun 2014 #4

randys1

(16,286 posts)
1. And Black Prez and Black AG arent allowed to do anything about it, not really
Tue Jun 10, 2014, 05:16 PM
Jun 2014

but maybe it is time they accept the reality that Fox noise and teaparty morons will attack them no matter and they go after these groups
You see the problem with that is the Teaparty is a terrorist org...

Donald Ian Rankin

(13,598 posts)
2. Only if you add the qualifier "In a place with hundreds millions of right wing Americans
Tue Jun 10, 2014, 05:34 PM
Jun 2014

and about 2.6 million Muslims, most of them moderate".

So, if you use a meaningful "per capita" rather than the meaningless gross, then even in the USA the reverse is true.

libodem

(19,288 posts)
3. Had to be said
Tue Jun 10, 2014, 05:58 PM
Jun 2014

I think it was said recently in some threat assessment by the government. Followed by outrage. Followed by more school shootings.

Nobody ever mentions that anti-tax guy who flew that small plane into a building in Texas. The right wingers get a pass on the terrorism behavior. Swept right under the rug and ignored.

 

Maedhros

(10,007 posts)
4. Of course they are.
Tue Jun 10, 2014, 07:19 PM
Jun 2014

Jihadists, for the most part, are stuck in third-world countries and are unable to project force outside their local regions. Their ability to harm the United States is drastically (and intentionally) overstated so that we will continue to cringe in fear and allow our military free reign.

Right wing nut jobs are right here in the U.S., brandishing their weapons and daring us to do anything about it.

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