White terrorism exists largely as a lame stream media straw dog. from Dean Obeidallah, Daily Beast [1]:
The GOP Ignores the Bigger Terror Threat—from the Right
They slam Obama because he won’t say “radical Islam.” But why won’t the Republicans acknowledge radical white terrorists?“I want surveillance of certain mosques,” bellowed Donald Trump to his followers at a campaign rally in Birmingham, Alabama over the weekend. Ted Cruz recently declared that it would be “lunacy” to allow Muslim refugees into the United States because they “could be jihadists coming here to kill Americans.” And in the aftermath of the Paris attacks, Marco Rubio exclaimed that in order to keep Americans safe, we need to be vigilant in our war against “radical Islam.”
Note the logic:
The threat posed by ISIS is real and must be forcefully addressed. But if these Republicans truly want to keep us safe, why don’t they ever raise the issue of right-wing terrorists? After all, as The New York Times reported just a few months ago, “Since Sept. 11, 2001, nearly twice as many people have been killed by white supremacists, antigovernment fanatics and other non-Muslim extremists than by radical Muslims.”
By Obeidallah reasoning, or lack thereof, any crime perpetuated by a non-Muslim is the fault of whites. That is if the Reverend Al Sharpton stirs up a race riot, then he is white. If Black Lives Matter riot, then they are white.
Yet more Obeidallah lack of logic:
There are currently 784 active white supremacist groups in the United States per the Southern Poverty law Center (SPLC.) And these groups are not just sitting around drinking Jack Daniel’s
Fron Obeidallah’s cited source [2]:
How many groups exist?
Reliable data is hard to come by, as you would expect from a mostly underground culture. The Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) tracks extremist groups across the US – the majority of which are white supremacist – and estimates there were 784 active groups in 2014. In South Carolina, there were 19 groups, including the Loyal White Knights of the Ku Klux Klan and the League of the South.
If Obeidallah was looking for a reliable source, he did not cite any. The Southern Poverty Law Center sees the klu Klux Klan like Dim Won, b/k/a Barack Obama see anthropogenic global warming, they see it every where, real or otherwise.
What sees as a organized white nation movement, consists of lone wolves. In a demographic not noted for group think and is a society which values individual freedom, some bad stuff is going to happen.
Oriental J. Simpson murdered two people. That hardly makes all blacks guilty of murder. It does make the Los Angeles Simpson jury guilty of stupidity. B.J. Clinton is a rapist, but I plead not guilty. How does Obeidallah plead?