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The New Zealand shooter appears to have left links to a white nationalist manifesto on Twitter and 8chan and declared himself a fascist, according to @nytimes.
Those behaviors would fit into a larger pattern of domestic terror here in the U.S. revealnews.org/article/home-i…
Those behaviors would fit into a larger pattern of domestic terror here in the U.S. revealnews.org/article/home-i…
President Trump has fixated repeatedly on the threat of Islamic terror in America.
But we crunched the numbers with @typeinvestigate and @DavidNeiwert. The incident data between 2008-2016 suggests far-right attackers are a major – and overlooked – threat.
But we crunched the numbers with @typeinvestigate and @DavidNeiwert. The incident data between 2008-2016 suggests far-right attackers are a major – and overlooked – threat.
During that period, we identified 63 cases of Islamist domestic terrorism, meaning incidents motivated by a theocratic political ideology espoused by such groups as the Islamic State.
The vast majority of these (76 percent) were foiled plots, meaning no attack took place.
The vast majority of these (76 percent) were foiled plots, meaning no attack took place.
Right-wing extremists, on the other hand, were behind nearly twice as many incidents: 115.
Just over a third of these incidents (35 percent) were foiled plots. The majority were acts of terrorist violence that involved deaths, injuries or damaged property.
Just over a third of these incidents (35 percent) were foiled plots. The majority were acts of terrorist violence that involved deaths, injuries or damaged property.
Also: Right-wing extremist terrorism was more often deadly: Nearly a third of incidents involved fatalities, for a total of 79 deaths, while 13 percent of Islamist cases caused fatalities.
(The total deaths associated with Islamist incidents were higher, however, reaching 90, largely due to the 2009 mass shooting at Fort Hood in Texas.)
Meanwhile, incidents related to left-wing ideologies, including ecoterrorism and animal rights, were comparatively rare, with 19 incidents causing seven fatalities – making the shooting attack on Republican members of Congress earlier this month somewhat of an anomaly.
While a majority of the incidents were perpetrated by right-wing extremists (57 percent), the database indicates that federal law enforcement agencies focused their energies on pre-empting and prosecuting Islamist attacks.
You can see the full database here: apps.revealnews.org/homegrown-terr…
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