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[quote=Anonymous][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]

A week ago, a guy wearing a “Property of Allah” shirt shot up a bar in Austin, killing multiple people.  This week, two guys shouted “Allahu Akbar” while tossing bombs into a crowd.  Their incompetence is the only reason multiple people aren’t dead from their actions.  Do you really think Islamic terrorism is not a problem?  [/quote]

God damn you folks are nearly impossibly ignorant.  No one said it wasn’t a problem.  I said that in America it’s a much smaller problem than domestic homegrown hate and terrorism.  They are jail, where they should be.  Of course, they likely wouldn’t have been there if it wasn’t for the hate group present at a time when we are murdering women and children in the Middle East.

The FBI agrees, or agreed before they decided that white nationalism was cool again.

1.	FBI Congressional Testimony — “Confronting White Supremacy” (Hate Crimes & Domestic Terrorism)

https://www.fbi.gov/news/speeches-and-testimony/confronting-white-supremacy

Direct FBI testimony to Congress covering how the bureau combats white supremacist violence through its Counterterrorism and Criminal Investigative Divisions.

2.	FBI Congressional Testimony — “Confronting White Supremacy: Examining the Biden Administration’s Counterterrorism Strategy”

https://www.fbi.gov/news/speeches-and-testimony/confronting-white-supremacy-examining-the-biden-administrations-counterterrorism-strategy-langan-092921

DOJ/FBI testimony explicitly identifying racially motivated violent extremists as a top domestic terror threat, with data from 2018–2021.

3.	FBI & DHS — Strategic Intelligence Assessment and Data on Domestic Terrorism (Full Report PDF)

https://www.fbi.gov/file-repository/counterterrorism/fbi-dhs-domestic-terrorism-strategic-report.pdf

The joint FBI/DHS strategic report providing threat assessments, incident data, and methodology for tracking domestic violent extremists.

4.	GAO — “Domestic Terrorism: Additional Actions Needed to Implement an Effective National Strategy” (April 2025)

https://files.gao.gov/reports/GAO-25-107030/index.html

The most recent government accountability review, noting that racially motivated extremists have been responsible for the majority of domestic terrorism-related deaths since 2010.

5.	U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee Letter to DHS & FBI (April 2025)

https://www.judiciary.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/2025-04-08%20-%20Letter%20to%20DHS%20FBI%20re.%20Domestic%20Terrorism.pdf

A formal congressional inquiry citing FBI data showing a 357% increase in domestic terrorism cases from 2013–2021, raising alarms about recent federal pullback from tracking these threats.

Others.

1.	National Institute of Justice — “What NIJ Research Tells Us About Domestic Terrorism”

https://nij.ojp.gov/topics/articles/what-nij-research-tells-us-about-domestic-terrorism

A research-grounded overview from the federal government’s justice research arm, covering the scope and lethality of far-right extremism since 1990.

2.	Brookings Institution — “The Global Rise of White Supremacist Terrorism”

https://www.brookings.edu/events/the-global-rise-of-white-supremacist-terrorism/

A panel discussion and analysis from Brookings examining how white supremacist violence has become a top counterterrorism concern both domestically and internationally.

3.	PBS NewsHour — “Far-Right Violence a Growing Threat and Law Enforcement’s Top Domestic Terrorism Concern”

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/far-right-violence-a-growing-threat-and-law-enforcements-top-domestic-terrorism-concern

Covers the sentencing of Proud Boys leader Enrique Tarrio and includes expert analysis on the broader white power movement’s threat trajectory.

4.	Brennan Center for Justice — “New Domestic Terrorism Laws Are Unnecessary for Fighting White Nationalists”

https://www.brennancenter.org/our-work/research-reports/new-domestic-terrorism-laws-are-unnecessary-fighting-white-nationalists

Examines existing legal frameworks for prosecuting white nationalist violence and critiques how federal agencies have categorized and prioritized the threat.

5.	Council on Foreign Relations — “Homeland Security Emerging Threats: Domestic Terrorism and White Supremacy”

https://www.cfr.org/event/homeland-security-emerging-threats-domestic-terrorism-and-white-supremacy
A CFR panel with former DHS and national security officials discussing the history, scope, and policy response to white supremacist extremism in the U.S.[/quote]

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