Posted on 04/26/2013 2:36:34 AM PDT by markomalley
On Wednesday, Mother Jones ran an article making a shocking claim: more Americans have been killed by conservative terrorists than by Islamic terrorists since September 11, 2001. “While America has been fixated on the threat of Islamic terrorism for more than a decade, all but a few domestic terror plots have failed,” the article explained. “Between September 11, 2001, and the end of 2012, there were no successful bomb plots by jihadist terrorists in the United States …. [R]ight-wing extremists killed 29 people during those 11 years.”
But is it true?
The Mother Jones piece is based on a study by the New America Foundation and Syracuse University’s Maxwell School. But that study routinely labels non-right-wing murderers right-wingers, and labels basic crimes involving murder “terrorist attacks.”
Here is their complete list of “rightwing terrorist attacks,” with number of killed in parentheses:
(snip)
The list does not include the Beltway snipers (11 killed, including a 2002 shooting of a Tucson man); Mohammed Ali Alayed, who slashed a Jewish friend’s throat after reportedly undergoing a religious revival; Mohammed Reza Taheri-azar, who used his SUV to attack students (9 injured) at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in revenge for “the deaths of Muslims worldwide”; the list goes on. The list also does not include honor killings (the equivalent to the George Tiller assassination), or random murders involving Muslims (the equivalent of half the items on the “rightwing terrorist attacks” list.
Naturally, the study does not bother to list left-wing terrorists.
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Abortion has killed more in one day than 9/11. Add it up annually, and it’s true genocide, in the Hitler, Stalin, Mao wet dreams style genocide.
Lord, come soon!
Ah, I see...
It all depends on how you define/ignore “Islamic terror”
and classify anything you want to as “right wing attacks”.
Mother Jones......
Just another Marxist Rag.
Never forget that gangs are natural Bammy supporters.
Don’t forget Muhammad and Malvo.
> Don’t forget Muhammad and Malvo.
They were Moslems, but were they Democrats or Leftists?
I believe that John was a ‘rat.
> I believe that John was a ‘rat.
I will check.
But they were Jihadis none the less.
There should be a table constructed that checks off whether they were jihadis and/or demonRATS. I think that would be more constructive. We would be able to get more names in such a table.
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