By Celia Llopis-Jepsen
The Topeka Capital-Journal Oct 18, 2016

A recently foiled southwest Kansas terrorist plot fits a trend in recent years in which experts say surging anti-government extremist and Islamophobic extremist ideologies are melding ...

Anti-government extremism in its current iteration is a far-right movement centered around conspiracy theories involving the federal government. It includes a number of subsets, such as the sovereign citizens movement that the southwest Kansas suspects may be linked to ...

Washburn University political science professor Chris Hamilton says ... “Extremism starts as a social movement that singles out scapegoat groups and demonizes them” ...

A report released this summer by researchers at the University of California, Berkeley and the Council on American-Islamic Relations found that 10 states now have anti-Islam laws and at least two had passed textbook-related laws resulting from anti-Muslim campaigns. The researchers documented 74 groups promoting or supporting Islamophobic themes ...

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