White Supremacy Is a Bigger Threat to America Than Radical Islam

1 min ago
AIMEE KUVADIA

If you live in the US, statistics suggest you’re more likely to be murdered by a white supremacist than by an Islamic extremist.

Non-Muslim domestic terrorists have killed roughly twice as many people since Sept. 11, 2011 than have jihadists, The New York Times reported in June.

According to Washington research center New America, homegrown radicals have taken the lives of 48 people, whereas self-proclaimed jihadists have claimed the lives of 26. These numbers don’t take into account the mass shooting in Oregon on Thursday, carried out by a man believed to be a white supremacist, or the two police officers slain by an ultra right-wing couple from Las Vegas ...

When nearly 400 police departments from across the country were asked earlier this year to rank the three most concerning extremist threats in their respective jurisdictions, 74 percent named antigovernment violence first, with only 39 percent listing “al-Qaeda-inspired” violence, according to researchers David Schanzer of Duke University and researcher Charles Kurzman of the University of North Carolina ...

http://www.ryot.org/white-supremacy-is-a-bigger-threat-to-america-than-radical-islam/944015