Domestic terrorism looms as a big threat to the US.
By Raif Karerat
WASHINGTON, DC: 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 reviewed “terror” attacks on U.S. soil since Sept. 11, 2001 and found that the majority 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 New America Foundation defined as terror, 19 were carried out by non-Muslims.
As noted by Global Post:
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.
“There’s an acceptance now of the idea that the threat from jihadi terrorism in the United States has been overblown,” Dr. John Horgan, who studies terrorism at the University of Massachusetts Lowell, told The Week magazine. “And there’s a belief that the threat of right-wing, antigovernment violence has been underestimated.”
The murder of 9 people at a historically black church in Charleston, South Carolina put a new spotlight on right-wing terrorism. The killer made it clear that his motivation was an ideological belief that white people are superior to black people, leading many to ponder how the government will respond to this specific brand of terrorism that has long been simmering at the surface of the American consciousness.
7 Comments
Why are these White Supremacists such a problem since Obama took over the presidency? Muslim extremists also seem to be an issue these days… I wonder why that is?
I don’t know…the south side of Chicago is pretty terrifying.
I rather like the Old America
You won’t allow dissenting opinions? Your facts don’t stand up to them? Shame! I guess you guys need a crutch.
If you just count the events between this time and that time, exclude those people, don’t count these kind of events, and then squint your eyes and look sideways at the results… “White Americans are the biggest terror threat in the United States”
Yet another BS Article targeting American Conservatives and White people! Those in Power in the United States are the White Supremacists of the day! What you need to do is Grow a Set and Publish The Truth about Black on Black and Black on White crimes! I highly doubt that will happen anytime soon because that would require you TELL THE TRUTH!
This is ridiculous, not to mention the articles pretentious first sentence: “white Americans are the biggest terror threat”. Not anymore than gangs in the heart of Chicago, at least if you want to go by kill rate. And if I remember correctly, ” white Americans” still have a long way to go to catch up to the 3000 that died 14 years ago, this is just a hate article that is taking advantage of a devastating hate crime that happened last week to push its nonsensical data published by an organization no one has heard of.