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Sunday, February 7th, 2016

White supremacists and extremist militias are ‘greater threat to US than ISIS’

Author:     Sam Webb
Source:     Mirror (U.K.)
Publication Date:     16:46, 4 Feb 2016
Link: White supremacists and extremist militias are ‘greater threat to US than ISIS’
Stephan:   I would observe two things about this report on the danger posed by White American Theocratic Rightists militias and vigilantes: first, that this article is being published in a British newspaper. This is what the U.S. looks like from the outside looking in. Nothing to be proud of there. Second, that it confirms the position SR has held for several years: White Theocratic Rightists are far more dangerous to social order than Muslim terrorists.
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Militias: Militant organisations are on the rise Credit: Reuters

Far-right militias and racist organisations like the Ku Klux Klan are a greater threat to America than ISIS, it has been reported.

While presidential candidates like Donald Trump are calling for a blanket ban on Muslims entering the country, law enforcement agencies say racist, anti-government and religious fundamentalist groups are the ones they truly fear.

Since 2002, militias have killed more people in the United States than jihadis have.

Figures from Washington think tank New America, Islamists launched nine attacks that murdered 45, while the right-wing extremists struck 18 times, leaving 48 dead, reports Newsweek.

A survey of 382 law enforcement agencies by the Triangle Center on Terrorism and Homeland Security found that: “Law enforcement agencies in the United States consider anti-government violent extremists, not radicalised Muslims, to be the most severe threat of political violence that they face.

“74 per cent reported anti-government extremism as one of the top three terrorist threats in their […]

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