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White Americans are the biggest terror threat in the United States, according to a study by the New America Foundation. The Washington-based research organization did a review of terror attacks on US soil since Sept. 11, 2001 and found that most of them were carried out by radical anti-government groups or white supremacists.
Almost twice as many people have died in attacks by right-wing groups in America than have died in attacks by Muslim extremists. Of the 26 attacks since 9/11 that the group defined as terror, 19 were carried out by non-Muslims. Yet there are no white Americans languishing inside the prison camp at Guantanamo Bay. And there are no drones dropping bombs on gatherings of military-age males in the country's lawless border regions.
Attacks by right-wing groups get comparatively little coverage in the news media. Most people will struggle to remember the shooting at a Sikh temple in Wisconsin that killed six people in 2012. A man who associated with neo-Nazi groups carried out that shooting. There was also the married couple in Las Vegas who walked into a pizza shop and murdered two police officers. They left a swastika on one of the bodies before killing a third person in a Wal-Mart parking lot. Such attacks are not limited to one part of the country. In 2011, two white supremacists went on a shooting spree in the Pacific Northwest, killing four people.
Terrorism is hard to define. But here is its basic meaning: ideological violence. In its study, the New America Foundation took a narrow view of what could be considered a terror attack. Most mass shootings, for instance, like Sandy Hook or the Aurora, Colorado movie theater shooting both in 2012 weren't included. Also not included was the killing of three Muslim students in North Carolina earlier this year. The shooter was a neighbor and had strong opinions about religion. But he also had strong opinions about parking spaces and a history of anger issues. So that shooting was left off the list.
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http://www.globalpost.com/article/6592741/2015/06/24/white-americans-are-biggest-terror-threat-united-states
Nye Bevan
(25,406 posts)And to compare totals rather than per capita, or the number of deaths caused.
Useless study is predictably useless.
Igel
(35,309 posts)And percentages at other times. Now focus on individuals, now on groups. Change up what you're comparing or find the right kinds of things to compare to prove your point by any means necessary.
Twice as many victims from whites as from Muslims in that period (and how did they handle those in both categories? ... But I digress).
Convert that to per capita. Unless there are half as many Muslims as there are whites, Muslims are disproportionately represented.
Whites, something like 60% of the population; Muslims, perhaps 6% (being generous by all but Muslim estimates of the number of Muslims in the population ...)
Democat
(11,617 posts)You might believe this.
underpants
(182,803 posts)Tipperary
(6,930 posts)I cannot remember any mass shootings by any white women.
CANDO
(2,068 posts)White conservative males.
icymist
(15,888 posts)http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/New_America_Foundation
http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Peter_G._Peterson_Foundation
Fred Sanders
(23,946 posts)White domestic terrorism is also identified by the Dept. of Justice and the FBI in a comprehensive study last year as the primary focus of domestic surveillance and is combined with a sharp rise in domestic hate groups, many of which are well armed with potential second amendment remedies.
There is no doubt the article's conclusions about the threat of white supremists and their kin are America's gravest terrorist threat, (see recent KKK 'rallies' and open carry wing huts) along with the 320 million easily available in unlimited quantiles domestic guns and ammo, including some pretty impressive heavy weaponry and equally impressive RW media and political support.
daredtowork
(3,732 posts)Triana
(22,666 posts)...wants to "fix" the debt by abolishing Social Security, medicare, medicaid.
He's a dirty, rich, greedy bastard.
"Business Roundtable" is another rich man's outfit seeking to abolish Social Security.
raccoon
(31,111 posts)KentuckyWoman
(6,679 posts)Yes radical groups are a problem. But it's unbelievable an OP with that kind of title is allowed to stand.
Wow. Just Wow.
JTFrog
(14,274 posts)nilesobek
(1,423 posts)who keep quoting FBI statistics to support his hatred of black people. I think he's been tombstoned over and over again. The op might be right, but it still seems racist.
Triana
(22,666 posts)Sorry.
Starry Messenger
(32,342 posts)former9thward
(32,006 posts)Never can be too careful.
yuiyoshida
(41,831 posts)I will just stand over here officer...