Most Of America’s Terrorists Are White, And Not Muslim

HUFFPO ^ | June 23, 2017 | Sarah Ruiz-Grossman

[PROCON]

When it comes to domestic terrorism in America, the numbers don’t lie: Far-right extremists are behind far more plots and attacks than Islamist extremists.

There were almost twice as many terrorist incidents by right-wing extremists as by Islamist extremists in the U.S. from 2008 to 2016, according to a new report from The Nation Institute’s Investigative Fund and The Center for Investigative Reporting’s Reveal.

Looking at both plots and attacks carried out, the group tracked 201 terrorist incidents on U.S. soil from January 2008 to the end of 2016. The database shows 115 cases by right-wing extremists ― from white supremacists to militias to “sovereign citizens” ― compared to 63 cases by Islamist extremists. Incidents from left-wing extremists, which include ecoterrorists and animal rights militants, were comparatively rare, with 19 incidents.

[PROCON]

Alright all you white, right-wing terrorists, (and you know who you are), we may have manipulated data, lied and obfuscated the truth, but that doesn't mean we're wrong. </HUFFPO>

FReeper comments?

[BenLurkin]

Funny how none of them made the news.

[Lurker]

True or not it doesn’t mean we need any additional terrorists of any kind.

L

[2ndDivisionVet]

Plenty of Muslims are white.

[Ray76]

The Nation? Hahahaha. Zero cred.

[JMS]

Since they’re classifying instances that realistically are street crimes as terrorism then black terrorism is at epidemic levels closely followed by hispanic terrorism and illegal alien terrorism and still Muslim terrorism would be at an incredibly high per capita rate.

[dirtboy]

They counted Andrew Joseph Stack as right wing. The guy who praised communism in his manifesto prior to flying his plane into the IRS building in Austin. Also, all white supremecists are lumped together as right wing, and incidents such as a militia member engaged in a siege that ended peacefully after a domestic violence call is treated as a terrorism incident as well.

[Shimmer1]

For the purposes of this article, they are right wing extremists.

[Teacher317]

They count "plots" and "plans" that are probably 90% utterly imaginary. If Madonna were a Conservative, they would call her remark about blowing up the White House to be a "plan". Hell, they probably count Hodgkinson as "right-wing", since his "motivations are still unknown", ahem.

Let's stick with actual killing, and compare the numbers again, shall we?

[Vic S]

Correction:

Most Of America’s Terrorists Are White Liberals, And Not Muslim.

[PROCON]

Oh yeah, they also classified the Portland, OR Bernie supporter who killed 2 poor folks as "right-wing."

Lies and obfuscations to feed to the useful idiots.

[TigersEye]

FReeper comments?

#FakeNews

[xzins]

Liberal press would have these 24/7 on the news for weeks. I can’t name but one or 2, and those were 24/7 coverage.

IOW, something’s not adding up.

They are counting things that don’t get carried out, or counting differently, or something.

[rhubarbk]

These people are totally deranged and living in Bizzaro world. Scary!!!

[Secret Agent Man]

I only seem to recall leftwing nutjobs shooting people like Scalise and Giffords and such.

[M Kehoe]

“The Nation Institute’s Investigative Fund and The Center for Investigative Reporting’s”

The Huffpo also sites SPLC and Morris Dees.

No thanks.

5.56mm

[PROCON]

They are deranged but they need to make up these stories to feed to their rabid, nutcase base to keep them fired-up.

[Paladin2]

OK, how about normalizing for the size of the respective populations?

[Ruy Dias de Bivar]

How many yell “THIS IS FOR JAY-ZUS!” before they set off a bomb, whack off a head or pull a trigger?

[windsorknot]

Remember the KKK? Didn't it represent white Democrats?