Posted on 01/02/2025 5:02:11 PM PST by CFW
A 42-year-old former Army IT specialist named Shamsud-Din Jabbar committed an act of terrorism by killing 15 in his truck in New Orleans early on New Year’s Day, says the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI). And there appears to be abundant evidence, including testimony from his close relatives and videos he posted to Facebook, that radical Islamic ideology motivated Jabbar.
Jabbar’s motivations may come as a surprise to millions of Americans. After all, for the last four years, the FBI, Department of Homeland Security (DHS), President Joe Biden, and other United States agencies that constitute the Intelligence Community (IC) have emphasized that the greatest threat of terrorism comes from white supremacists, not radicalized Islamists.
The “top threat we face from DVEs [Domestic Violent Extremist] continues to be those we identify as Racially or Ethnically Motivated Violent Extremists (‘RMVEs’), specifically those who advocate for the superiority of the white race,” FBI Director Christopher Wray told Senate Judiciary Committee on March 2, 2021.
“According to the intelligence community,” said Biden in 2021, “terrorism from white supremacy is the most lethal threat to the homeland today. Not ISIS, not al Qaeda — white supremacists.”
As a result, Wray said in 2021 that " racially motivated violent extremism is the biggest chunk of our domestic terrorism portfolio, if you will, overall. I will also say that the same group of people we're talking about have been responsible for the most lethal attacks over the last decade."
Those arguments have continued over the last four years. In August 2024, the New Yorker reported “around 2018 the F.B.I. began seeing an increase in racially or ethnically motivated violent extremists—in particular, ‘individuals espousing the superiority of the white race.’”
The evidence never supported any of those claims.
Between 2012 and 2021, Islamic extremists committed five acts of domestic US terrorism that killed 77 people, whereas white supremacists committed four acts of domestic terrorism that killed 49 people. And even if the numbers were reversed, at just 12 cases of domestic terrorism, the sample size is too small to be able to claim, scientifically, any kind of discernible trend about DVE.
The total number of killings by white supremacists annually is very low. In 2022, there were only 21 homicides linked to white supremacists in the entire country. By comparison, Chicago alone saw an average of 58 homicides every month. In 2022, there were a total of 24,849 homicides. Thus, the share of them that were by white supremacists was .08%.
This is not to suggest that the FBI could have prevented the New Orleans attack on New Year’s had it been more focused on the threat of would-be Islamic terrorists. The FBI was still on the alert for Islamic terrorism, even as it claimed that white supremacists posed a greater threat. And some mass killings are difficult to prevent so long as we live in a relatively free society.
But the fact that some mass killings may be difficult to prevent is no excuse for the FBI to mislead the public, policymakers, and other law enforcement and intelligence agencies.
The FBI’s claim that white supremacy was the main driver of the acts of terrorism was also misleading. Most of the white supremacist killers appeared to suffer from mental illness, whereas most of the radical Islamicists appeared sane and driven overwhelmingly by ideology. The Wisconsin shooter had a history of alcoholism and depression; the Charleston and Pittsburgh shooters showed signs of paranoia; the El Paso shooter was diagnosed with schizoaffective disorder, a chronic and serious mental illness that combines the symptoms of schizophrenia, including hallucinations or delusions, with a mood disorder like depression or bipolar disorder; and the Buffalo shooter had been temporarily committed to a mental hospital. The only exception to this appears to be the Orlando shooter.
Thus, there was never any good evidence that there was a rising threat of terrorism from the political ideology of white supremacy, nor that it was greater than the threat of Islamist terrorism. And yet FBI Director Wray, President Biden, and the whole of the US IC have claimed, repeatedly, for four years, that it was. Why?
How many times has Biden said that white supremacy was America’s greatest threat? What orifice did he pull that from?
Why? Because it was the continuation of the War against Americans by the #JihadJunta, Sotero, Rice, Brennan and especially Jarrett. They were directed by their Overlords.
“How many times has Biden said that white supremacy was America’s greatest threat? What orifice did he pull that from?”
The globalists who are working to destroy America conspired together to create this narrative. They then distributed the talking points to various government agencies, politicians, and the media. For every act of violence committed by non-white terrorists and criminals, the response from them all was “We are deeply concerned about far right-wing Caucasian terrorists. Right-wing conservatives are the greatest threat to our nation’s security”.
It has worked very well.
Bureaucrats don't want to hear your views. They want to hear their views coming out of your mouth. A real modern day leftist soldier.
Thus, there was never any good evidence that there was a rising threat of terrorism from the political ideology of white supremacy, nor that it was greater than the threat of Islamist terrorism. And yet FBI Director Wray, President Biden, and the whole of the US IC have claimed, repeatedly, for four years, that it was. Why?
**** FBI Director Wray, Trump appointed?
George Carlin’s rules to live by:
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Krispy Kreeme’s fault.
Using a verse as a tag line would expect you to know better how to discern the truth.
If you do not understand how Wray was appointed you have little understanding.
George Carlin’s rules to live by:
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This has been going on since the Clinton administration, possibly Bush before him (Ruby Ridge).
Shellenberger needs to complete his metamorphosis.
This is why I love FR, the occasional DU guy know it all coming to talk down to us peons. Pls skwor enlighten us. lol….
In my 74 years, I have never met a white supremacist or Christian Nationalist.
The FBI’s claim that white supremacy was the main driver of the acts of terrorism was also misleading.
I’ve talked with white supremacists and they seemed to be nothing more than outspoken (unfiltered) democrats with worse than normal hygiene. I’m not sure what a Christian nationalist is.
It will be interesting to see just how many FBI resources have been so misdirected, assuming the evidence isn't already wiped "like with a cloth". If, as so many suspect, the FBI has not only been penetrating, but actually provoking and directing those organizations labeled as "White Supremacist", it argues an organized effort on the part of many that is well over the line into criminal conspiracy.
A retired FBI agent stated (FOX News) that in all his years the only white supremacist cases he worked on were those already in prison.
They have been shoveling this dung around since Clinton: Project Megiddo comes to mind.
Almost 73 years
When I initially read your post, I thought, neither have I
But then I recalled an incident where some white/hitler guy had moved to town.
He nodded at me as I was waking downtown and then pointed to a youngster, who pulled out a toy gun and “shot” me.
Stuff you forget . . .
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