{"id":94513,"date":"2017-06-26T12:01:24","date_gmt":"2017-06-26T11:01:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=94513"},"modified":"2017-06-25T12:55:37","modified_gmt":"2017-06-25T11:55:37","slug":"most-terrorists-in-the-usa-are-right-wing-not-muslim-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2017\/06\/most-terrorists-in-the-usa-are-right-wing-not-muslim-report\/","title":{"rendered":"Most Terrorists in the USA Are Right Wing, Not Muslim: Report"},"content":{"rendered":"

22 Jun 2017 – <\/em>U.S. President Donald Trump was elected vowing to get tough on \u201cradical Islamic terrorism.\u201d He has tried to implement a travel ban barring people from six\u00a0Muslim-majority nations from entering the U.S. and has tweeted frequently about Islamist terrorist attacks around the world. On Thursday, a new report claimed the president has his facts muddled.<\/p>\n

A joint project by the Investigative Fund at the Nation Institute, a nonprofit media center, and Reveal from the Center for Investigative Reporting has found that within\u00a0the past nine years<\/a>, right-wing extremists plotted or carried out nearly twice as many terrorist attacks as Islamist extremists. Of the 115 right-wing incidents, police only foiled 35 percent. Compare this to the 63 Islamist terrorism cases, where police foiled 76 percent of the planned attacks.<\/p>\n

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Members of the Rebel Brigade Knights and the Nordic Order Knights gather for a group photograph in front of a lit cross after a cross lighting ceremony at a private residence in Henry County, Virginia.
Photo: Johnny Milano\/Reuters<\/p><\/div>\n

Right-wing extremists were not only more successful<\/a>, they were often more deadly, too. From 2008 to 2016, a third of right-wing attacks involved fatalities, compared to 13 percent of Islamist attacks. It should be noted, however, that Islamist extremists\u00a0killed more people overall, with a death toll of 90 people compared to 79.<\/p>\n

In a statement pointing out the higher rate of successful, right-wing terrorist attacks, the Investigative Fund said: \u201cThis project quantifies just how irrational Trump and the GOP’s fixation on ‘radical Islamic terrorism’\u00a0as the greatest security threat is.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cFixation\u201d might be the right word. The president has yet to acknowledge the problem of right-wing violence, remaining uncharacteristically silent after an Islamophobic attack on a mosque in London that left one man dead. (Trump tweeted about the three incidents of Islamist terrorism that have hit the U.K. capital in recent months.)<\/p>\n

Part of the problem, the Investigative Fund and Reveal suggest, are the people that Trump has advising him. Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn, the president\u2019s former national security adviser, \u00a0had said that \u201cfear of Muslims is rational,\u201d and that he doesn\u2019t \u201csee Islam as a religion.\u201d Trump\u00a0advisor\u00a0Steve Bannon has referred to Islam as a \u201creligion of submission,\u201d and is believed to have been a strong advocate for the ban on certain nationalities entering the U.S. (As the former head of Breitbart News, Bannon boasted that the organization was \u201cthe platform for the alt-right.\u201d<\/a>)<\/p>\n

The new administration, says\u00a0Reveal and the Investigative Fund, is therefore unlikely to change the culture whereby federal authorities disproportionately focus on potential Islamist extremists. Of the incidents\u2019 the two organizations registered, federal authorities handled 91 percent of the Islamist ones and just 60 percent of the right-wing ones.<\/p>\n

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22 Jun 2017 – Right-wing extremists were not only more successful, they were often more deadly, too. From 2008 to 2016, a third of right-wing attacks involved fatalities, compared to 13 percent of Islamist attacks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[65],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-94513","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anglo-america"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94513","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=94513"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94513\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=94513"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=94513"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=94513"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}