Posted on 06/24/2015 4:07:46 PM PDT by markomalley
A study by the New America Foundation shows that right wing, anti-government extremists and white supremacists are a bigger threat to the US than Islamic terrorists.
Does the study really say that?
Well, no. But it’s a sexy headline, don’t you think? Mediaite headline screams, “White Americans Are Biggest Terror Threat in U.S.”
What the New America Foundation study showed was that more Americans have been killed by homegrown, non-jihadist radicals since 9/11 than were killed by Islamic jihadis.
White Americans are the biggest terror threat in the US, killing more people in attacks than Muslims or any other group in the last 14 years, according to a study done by the New America Foundation.
The group looked into the 26 attacks on US soil that it defined as terror and found that 19 of those attacks were done by non-Muslims. All the studied attacks are post-9/11.
Since then, 48 people have been killed by extremists who are not Muslim, compared to 26 killed by people who claimed to be jihadist. The non-Muslim groups include right-wing, anti-government organizations and white-supremacist groups.
Last week’s Charleston shooting — after which reports surfaced of the confessed shooter’s white-supremacist ideology — was included in the count.
Other attacks, like the massacres in Aurora, Colorado and Newtown, Connecticut, were not included, since they do not appear to have been caused by a specific ideology, the standard used by New America Foundation to qualify terrorism.
This information may shock the public, as post-9/11 trauma has made jihadi terror attacks more prominent in the media, but US law enforcement is well aware of the danger of white extremist groups, the New York Times reported.
A recent survey done by researchers at the University of North Carolina and Duke University asked 382 US police departments to list top threats and 74 per cent listed anti-government violence, while just 39 per cent said “Al Qaeda-inspired” violence.
Are white Americans the biggest threat? It depends how you define the word “threat.” The Heritage Foundation released an update to their own study earlier this month that showed law enforcement authorities preventing 69 separate Islamic terrorist attacks since 9/11, the most recent being the Boston plot to kill Pamela Geller. Some of those were mass casualty plots that could have killed hundreds of Americans. And while the inspiration for some of these plots are from overseas, the plotters lived and worked for the most part in America.
There have been 6 Islamic terror plots foiled just since April:
Two years ago, The Heritage Foundation conducted an exhaustive review of publicly available U.S. court and federal and state government records. The researchers documented at least 60 terrorist plots related to Islamist extremism following the 9/11 attacks—all aimed at the U.S. And the pace of plotting has only quickened.
There have been nine additional plots since that report came out in 2013. Seven occurred this calendar year, six since April. Plot number 69 was thwarted just a few days ago. On June 2, federal law enforcement officers killed Usaamah Abdullah in Boston. Dawud Sharif Abdul Khaliq, an alleged accomplice, was arrested later. It is suspected they intended to behead anti-Islamist activist Pamela Geller.
So, yes, Islamist terrorism in America is on the rise. The numbers don’t lie. Still, there is a ferocious debate over what they mean.
There’s a difference between the kind of right wing extremist terrorism personified by Dylann Root and the fanatical Muslims who are intent on killing us. The paranoid, anti-government, nutcases and racist half wits who carry out unsophisticated attacks on their targets have no interest in sacrificing themselves for the “cause.” They want to escape to live to fight another day.
Meanwhile, the jihadists have more involved plots that sometimes include suicide bombings. They are cold sober sane, calculating, and their religious fanaticism makes them more dangerous than any right wing potential terrorist out there.
It makes sense for local police to worry more about right wing extremism rather than Islamic terrorists. Local departments are usually the last to hear about a terror plot being tracked in their jurisdiction by the feds. And, of course, not all terror plots that are foiled make it on the six o’clock news. Rolling up a terror cell that may have connections both here and abroad is a delicate matter that we may never officially become aware.
We shouldn’t minimize the threat from non-jihadist Americans. But this study is being misinterpreted by all the usual suspects into making white, right wing nuts a bigger “threat” to America than Islamic terrorists, rather than the simple body counting exercise it is. Heading off 69 terrorist attacks before they bear fruit makes Islamic terrorism a far more dangerous and lethal threat than anything the screwballs on the right can muster.
And losing track of that singular fact will end up getting a lot of Americans killed.
Oh, and by the way, in case you have the question: "What is the New America Foundation?"
- Public-policy think tank focused on building a New Deal for the 21st century
- Claims to transcend the Right vs. Left paradigm
- Aspires to become a “content provider” to media in order to influence public policy
- Is supported by numerous far-left funders including the Open Society Institute, the Pew Charitable Trusts, the Ford Foundation, and the Carnegie Corporation of New York
- Views Israel as an occupier of Palestine
Founded in 1999, the New America Foundation (NAF) is a public-policy think tank headquartered in Washington, DC, with a sister office in Sacramento, California. NAF's mission is to “invest” in individuals and programs that have the capacity to influence public policy outside of “party politics.” To this end, NAF is concerned with seeding its ideas into the domain of public discourse, primarily through media outreach, policy papers (which may be used by officials to inform actual policy decisions), and public information events. As a corollary to this objective, NAF seeks to cultivate a new generation of policy leaders sympathetic to the NAF philosophy.
NAF’s leadership claims to represent the values of “the radical center,” a designation which NAF founder Ted Halstead and NAF fellow Michael Lind define in their book bearing that title. Writing in Salon magazine, Lind describes this “center radical” position as an "economic program" representing "an implicit repudiation of the center-right neoliberalism symbolized by Bill Clinton, Robert Rubin and Larry Summers." "Our goal," adds Lind, "[is] not to repeal the New Deal [of Franklin Roosevelt] but to adapt it to the circumstances of the 21st century." Also integral to the NAF program, Lind and Halstead claim, is an effort to transcend the Right vs. Left paradigm that typically pits conservatives against leftists.
Halstead, who also founded the progressive think tank Redefining Progress, explains that NAF aims to serve as a “content provider” for the media. He has written extensively for The Washington Post and The New York Times, among other publications.
NAF’s current president, Steve Coll, is a former managing editor of The Washington Post and currently serves as a contributor for The New Yorker magazine. Many other NAF board members and staffers are associated with mainstream news outlets as well (see below). In addition, NAF staff and fellows frequently write for such publications as Foreign Policy, Prospect, The National, The Atlantic Monthly, The Los Angeles Daily News, Salon, Politico, The Fiscal Times, Haaretz, Rolling Stone, Slate, The Christian Science Monitor, and numerous others.
Since its early days, NAF has established vital associations with the computer technology industry. NAF board chairman Eric Schmidt, for instance, is the CEO of Google, Inc. Numerous NAF board members and funders are giants of Silicon Valley. Some are members of the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR), whose senior fellow Russell Mead played a role in NAF’s founding. Among the more notable NAF board members are the following (full list here):
- David Bradley, chairman and owner of the Atlantic Media Company and a member of the CFR
- James Fallows, a correspondent for The Atlantic Monthly and former editor of U.S. News and World Report
- Dr. Atul A. Gawande, former Clinton administration health-policy advisor, staff member of The New Yorker magazine, and director for the World Health Organization
- Rita Hauser, founder of the Hauser Foundation, who has ties to the Palestinian Authority
- Laurene Powell Jobs, wife of Apple CEO Steve Jobs
- Kati Marton, former chair of the International Women’s Health Coalition, board member of the International Rescue Committee and Human Rights Watch, member of the CFR, and faculty member at Al Quds University (a Palestinian school in East Jerusalem)
- Richard Medley, a former partner, managing director, and chief political advisor of Soros Fund Management
- Daniel Yergin, the only foreign member of the Russian Academy of Oil and Gas, and a trustee of the Brookings Institution
- Fareed Zakaria, host for CNN, editor of Newsweek International, and columnist for Newsweek and The Washington Post
NAF also maintains a robust fellowship program, partly funded by the Knight Foundation. Among NAF's fellows are:
- Peter Beinart, former managing editor of The New Republic
- Peter Bergen, CNN's national security analyst
- Steven Clemons, board member of the Carnegie Council on Ethics and International Affairs
- Parag Khanna, member of the Council on Foreign Relations, former fellow at the Brookings Institution, and former foreign policy advisor to the "Barack Obama for President" campaign in 2008
- Daniel Levy, director of the Prospects for Peace Initiative at the Century Foundation and co-founder of J Street.
- Mark Schmitt, former director of policy and research for U.S. Programs at the Open Society Institute and a current board member of the Proteus Fund
NAF oversees numerous programs and initiatives designed to influence public opinion on particularized topics. These programs typically disseminate their ideas via policy papers, media articles, books, and NAF-sponsored events. Among NAF's more significant programs are the following:
Health Policy Program: NAF approved of the the 2010 federal healthcare overhaul bill because: (a) it would “offer a new image” of how Americans view dying; and (b) it would help "patients and their families to recognize" that: "[S]ometimes ‘doing everything’ results in more burden than benefit. High-tech medicine can prolong life, but for some patients, it merely draws out the process of dying." In 2009, Health Policy Program director Len Nichols testified before Congress in support of a public health-insurance option.
Energy Policy Initiative: NAF advocates punitive taxation on the use of fossil fuels, for the purpose of forcing Americans to cut back their reliance on such energy sources. In 2010, NAF produced a policy paper in favor of implementing a “Smart Grid,” a government-controlled energy use/delivery system.
Global Governance Initiative: The director of this program, Parag Khanna, contends that global governance is inevitable and that, in fact, America has already embarked on an unalterable course toward this destination. According to Khanna, the world at large sits on the precipice of an epoch that will be marked by “fear, uncertainty, plagues, and violence,” which global governance will ultimately relieve. Khanna lauds the efforts of "postmodern Medicis such as Bill Gates, Anil Ambani, George Soros, and Richard Branson," who "take it upon themselves" to “cure pandemics, run corporate cities, undermine authoritarian regimes, and sponsor climate-saving research.”
Middle East Task Force: NAF’s Middle East Task Force is highly critical of Israel and sympathetic toward Palestinian Arabs, whose anti-Israel activities allegedly "emulate the civil rights struggle [of blacks] in the United States and the struggle against apartheid in South Africa." Advancing the notion that the Israeli government is “occupying” Palestinian lands, NAF has called for U.S. sanctions against the Jewish State.
NAF receives funding from the following foundations, organizations, and individuals: the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, the Ben & Jerry’s Foundation, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, the Carnegie Corporation of New York, the Charles Stewart Mott Foundation, the Christopher Reynolds Foundation, the CIGNA Foundation, the Colombe Foundation, the Nathan Cummings Foundation, the Dancing Tides Foundation, the Ettinger Foundation, the Evelyn & Walter Haas Jr. Fund, the Exxon-Mobil Corporation, the Ford Foundation, the Foundation for Child Development, the Foundation to Promote Open Society, the Fourth Freedom Forum, Free Press, Google Inc., the Hauser Foundation, H&R Block, Intel Corporation, the James Irvine Foundation, the Japan Bank for International Cooperation, the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation, the Levi Strauss Foundation, the Liberty Hill Foundation, the Lockheed Martin Corporation, McKinsey & Company Inc., the Microsoft Corporation, the Open Society Institute, Pew Charitable Trusts, the Ploughshares Fund, the Proteus Fund, the Public Welfare Foundation, the Rockefeller Foundation, the Samuel Rubin Foundation, Save the Children, Wendy and Eric Schmidt, Bernard L. and Irene Schwartz, the Silicon Valley Community Foundation, the Surdna Foundation, the George Wasserman Family Foundation, and the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation.
In addition, NAF has created a “Leadership Council” composed of individuals who have donated $25,000 or more to the organization. Among these luminaries are Neal Baer, executive producer of the television program Law & Order: Special Victims Unit; Craig Newmark, founder of CraigsList.org; and Jonathan Soros, president of Soros Fund Management and the son of George Soros.
Source: Discover the Networks
how many MASS killings have these so called “white jihadist” actually engaged in??
fixed it.
fixed it.
Study: Right Wing Extremists a Bigger ‘Threat’ to US Democratic Globalist Uni-party agenda than Islamic Terrorists?
Fixed it some more.
Threat to the gubberment possibly, threat to the the country
unlikely.
true that.
Can you imagine the reaction if they had said that about any other ethnic group?
The “study” began it’s time span right after 9-11. Doesn’t that skew the results? Weren’t thousands of American Citizens and others murdered by the “peaceful” moozlums on 9-11? Fools. Quislings.
i posted the link to this “study” in another thread...they went through each attack separately..
funny thing was most of the attacks were by nazi groups (the nazi’s were socialists/left wingers), KKK groups, (demoKrats/left wingers), or anti-gov’t groups (since when are all anti-gov’t groups right wing???)..
another sad attempt by the left to change history in order to run away from their own...
Well, I am not looking over my shoulder at the airport or sporting events for right wing extremists. Funny, that.
New America receives funding from both the private and public sector. Seventy percent of its financing comes from private companies and individuals, while the rest comes from public institutions, including the U.S. government.[citation needed]
The list of organizations and individuals that supported New America in 2013 includes more than 140 contributors. The top donors, giving more than $1,000,000 each, were the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, the Lumina Foundation, Eric and Wendy Schmidt, and the US Department of State.[22]
These miserable bastards have no idea what kind of threat I am. 65 years old, bad knees and worse attitude. Please let it start while I can still fight.
And bathtubs kill more people in the US than the Ebola virus. Obviously bathtubs should be suppressed.
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