The evidence is clear: America has a problem with white nationalist terrorism.
As @peterwsinger has pointed out, more Americans were killed in the last decade by white nationalist terrorism than Islamic terrorism.
Past time we took it seriously as a national security problem.
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In the US, none recently that I'm aware of. In Muslim-majority countries more common. But it's also a complicated question, because Muslims in the West looking to kill a lot of people know there's an ideology encouraging them. 1/
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Some like jihadism and want to kill in its name. Others want to kill and then say they're jihadist. Orlando nightclub shooter tried to join al Qaeda, Hezbollah, and ISIS. That makes no sense. Those groups fight each other (especially Shia Hezbollah and the two Sunni groups). 2/
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To some extent, this applies to white nationalists too. Angry young white men seeking to belong to something could latch on to the movement. But there are many more of them than Muslims in the US, so the case universe is larger and more varied. 3/3
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I’d agree, especially w/ point 3. Reason (unfairly, of course) there’s a knee jerk “must be terrorism” to Muslim mass killers in the US is that’s been our experience w/ a group that’s a tiny fraction of our population. The majority pop. has had mass killers of all motivations
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