For example the Umpqua Community College murders in which 9 people died are cited in the statistics for far right extremists but the shooter had no ties to any extremist groups and was documented as being mentally ill since childhood.
Everyone who commits any crime and is not a certifiable Moslem is ipso facto a right wing extremist. That is the official definitions aat work. The world of lawbreaking is neatly divided into two groups, Radicalized Moslem Lone Wolves and Right Wing Extremists. There is no other category.
GAO report includes the Lafeyette LA murder of two movie goers and the wounding of nine others as right wing extremism, even though the local media reported ‘No Clear Motive Seen’ in a 40 page journal the shooter left in his motel room. Shooter also had a history of mental illness.
Article conclusion:
“Members of Congress who want to win the war of “hearts and minds” vis a vis ISIS need to remember that our greatest weapon is a strict adherence to constitutional norms of free association and speech, and that targeting fellow citizens of Arab descent or the Muslim faith for evidence-free surveillance and political repression only validates the ISIS narrative that America is at war with the Muslim and Arab world.”
Talk about not seeing the forest through the trees... EVERYONE is subject to “evidence-free surveillance”.
This is the biggest liberal bs imaginable...fire whoever did this study as it is nothing but liberal propaganda designed to help dems.
No mention of “far left wing violent extremist groups”. I guess they don’t exist.
They count incidences rather than deaths and equate an explosion in a mailbox and an attack on a mink farm with 9-11.
Only TWO to select from?
Why aren't America's serial killers in play?
The CHOICE providers who kill; on average; about 3,300 future American citizens EVERY DAY!
This won’t stand up to a detailed spread sheet analysis. All they do is count the incidents? So 9/11 with thousands killed is the same as two doofuses with shotgun shooting up a mall and killing maybe fives?
A complete distortion and deception. I didn’t see anything citing the number of people murdered. Not a single figure. Close to 3000 died from a single Muslim mass murder in 2001 alone.