Thursday, February 16, 2017

Trump and terrorism: Why is the White House ignoring the real danger of homegrown extremism?

http://www.salon.com/2017/02/09/trump-and-terrorism-why-is-the-white-house-ignoring-the-real-danger-of-homegrown-extremism/
"But Trump showed throughout the campaign that the only violent extremism he finds threatening is Muslim extremism and he has gone to great lengths to gin up irrational fear of it among his followers. And that’s very telling since law enforcement officers have said they are even more concerned about a different ideology: right-wing, anti-government extremism, particularly the “sovereign citizen” movement that has evolved out of white supremacist groups. Unfortunately, the Trump administration plans to stop tracking such groups in order to concentrate on the alleged hordes of Islamic jihadis in our midst. No wonder neo-Nazis cheered wildly when Trump was elected."