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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The anti-Muslim haters are just salivating at the chance to trot out their hate on this thread.  What these men did was wrong, full stop.
Nevertheless, sit down if you are one of the anti-Muslim haters who will use this to do your hateful fear mongering just like 9/11.  There are always threats to our country.  We need to be vigilant right now, because our incompetent, war-mongering administration is off bombing the sheet out of people with no real plan again.  Idiots bring out other idiots.  But to start up this anti-Muslim hate again, F off.

And anyone dismissing the white nationalist threat to this country is either stupid or a white nationalist.  They have been a problem for a long time and Trump has emboldened them. [/quote]

I think you might be missing the point, pp.

Most Americans are neither white nationalists nor Islamic extremists. Would you agree?

We are talking about select subpopulations, not the masses.

In terms of what people fear, optics are everything.

When a scary incident hits national/international news, it fuels concern.

I’m betting that the vast majority of posters aren’t white nationalists and aren’t sympathetic to their cause. They’ve likely never met a white nationalist in real life and they aren’t reading much about them in the national news. Fair?

But we are currently at war with a country ruled by religious extremists with an armed military plus radicalized gangs and sleeper cells in our country AND we are reading about a privileged Afghan-American young man who was raised in an objectively lovely affluent American community whose self-proclaimed allegiance is to death-to-America ISIS.

Surely you can understand why the masses are very worried about such behavior, right?

And it’s not an anti-Muslim fear. It’s an anti-extremist terrorist fear. We are worried about radicalized terrorists. [/quote]

You just proved the point.  The news will focus on this ONE incident to get people all fired up, so that they overestimate this threat.

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Exactly, these people clearly majored in drama and skipped statistics altogether.  It’s not new, and it’s an infection.  lol at all of the morons worked up about voting fraud, willing to disenfranchise millions of voters to solve a nearly nonexistent problem.  Fact is, when it does exist it’s almost assuredly not an illegal immigrant.

The fact remains that white supremacy and domestic terror are a much bigger issue in the US.[/quote]

Perhaps generally, sure.

But now that we are at war, things have changed. Security threats have obviously shifted.

If you know anyone in law enforcement or the military or in charge of security at government buildings, etc., everything has shifted. [/quote]

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