[ April 22, 2024 ]
The far-Left hate site Raw Story took the opportunity of the 19th anniversary of the September 11, 2001 jihad terror attacks that killed nearly 3,000 people to advance the claim that nowadays, the foremost threat the nation faces is not from jihadis, but from – you guessed it – “far-right white supremacists who love Trump.” It’s as predictable as it is absurd.
The Raw Story piece, written by Alex Henderson and picked up from the even loonier AlterNet, claims that “although the 9/11 terrorist attacks underscored the dangerous fanaticism of far-right Islamist groups, countless Republicans and supporters of President Donald Trump have ignored or downplayed another terrorist threat from the far right — white supremacy and white nationalism — and that threat is alive and well in the Trump era.” Who, according to Henderson, are these alleged white supremacists? Raw Story illustrated his article with a photo of Americans in California protesting the coronavirus lockdown hysteria. It doesn’t take much to make you the equivalent of the KKK these days.
Henderson’s bogeymen are as predictable as his slant: “And anti-Islam extremists like Jihad Watch’s Robert Spencer and his ally, Pamela Geller, would have us believe that the terrorist threat posed by white supremacists and white nationalists and the terrorist threat posed by Islamist groups are in no way comparable. But one need only look at the history of white supremacist terrorism to realize how ignorant that claim is.”
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“Extremist” is a carefully chosen word. During the Obama administration, it became the intelligence community’s favored euphemism for Islamic jihadis. By smearing Pamela Geller and me with the same label, Henderson is essentially saying that she and I are terrorists – the flip side of the Islamic jihadis, the “far-right” terrorists who prove that there are “extremists” of all creeds, and that the problem of “extremism” is not limited to Islam alone.
This is not only defamatory, as neither Pamela Geller nor I have ever advocated, justified, approved of, or applauded any violence, but it paints a large target on our backs for anyone who decides to strike out against the “extremist” threat, and makes us vulnerable to being shut down by the social media giants (which is, of course, already happening) in their efforts to curb “extremism.”
But even worse is that Henderson’s claim here, if believed, will lead people to discount an actual threat in favor of a chimera, a threat that is minuscule but has been immensely exaggerated for political purposes. White supremacists do not exist in sufficient number, so Alex Henderson and his cohorts have to invent them.
A moment’s consideration shows how absurd the idea that there is a “far-right” threat that dwarfs the jihad threat really is. After all, just look at what the damn white supremacists are doing in Nigeria and Pakistan. Remember the MAGA-hat-wearing thugs who are rioting in Sweden over Trump cartoons, and the Trump “Grab Em By The —” gangs that are running rampant in Britain, and the white supremacist migrants who are responsible for a massive crime wave in Europe.
Of course, there are no such people, but Islamic jihadis and supremacists are doing all of that and more. And besides being ridiculous, Henderson’s claim isn’t even original. Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.), in a 2018 interview, fed the fires of the “white supremacist terror” hysteria when she asserted that “our country [no, not Somalia] should be more fearful of white men across our country because they are actually causing most of the deaths within this country.” Omar also offered a ready solution: “Profiling, monitoring, and creating policies to fight the radicalization of white men.”
As I noted back in November 2018 when CNN’s intrepid journalist Don Lemon made the same claim, it originated with an April 2017 Government Accountability Office (GAO) study that counted 106 people killed in 62 attacks by “far-right violent extremists,” as compared to 119 people killed in 23 attacks by “radical Islamist violent extremists.”
That’s right: 62 attacks by “far-right violent extremists,” as opposed to only 23 attacks by “radical Islamist violent extremists.” A slightly larger number of people were killed in the jihad attacks, but there were so many more “far-right” attacks that this establishes conclusively that America has a much bigger problem with the “far-right” than with jihadis. Doesn’t it?
It doesn’t. One major problem with the Government Accountability Office study leaps out from page 6 of its report, where you will see that the count of fatalities committed by “far right wing extremists” and “radical Islamist extremists” begins on September 12, 2001. Why was that day chosen? Why not start the study at the beginning of a year, or of this century?
The answer is clear: if the GAO had gone back one more day, the number of Americans killed by Islamic jihadists would have been several thousand more than those killed by “far-right violent extremists.” The GAO obviously started its study on September 12, 2001, in order to manipulate the results so as to exaggerate the terror threat from the “far-right” and minimize it from Islamic jihadis. This is a “study” that was conducted in order to justify a predetermined conclusion, not a genuinely dispassionate search for the truth.
What’s more, the study doesn’t take failed plots into account. At Jihad Watch, I’ve tracked jihad activity in the United States and around the world every day since October 2003. In the course of that nearly sixteen-year span, I’ve posted hundreds of reports on failed jihad plots inside this country. No one was killed or injured in those, and for that we can all be grateful. But if those plots had succeeded, there would have been hundreds and possibly thousands more fatalities of Islamic jihad activity.
Those failed plots are quickly forgotten. But they shouldn’t be, especially in considerations of which threat to Americans is larger. It should also be noted that there is nowhere near an equivalent number of foiled plots by “far-right violent extremists.” Most Americans have no idea how determinedly jihadis are continuing to attempt mass murder inside the United States.
Even worse, the GAO study doesn’t take into account the fact that there is a global network of Islamic jihadis. They are found on every inhabited continent. Major jihad organizations such as al-Qaeda and the Islamic State have repeatedly called upon Muslims to murder Americans.
By contrast, there is no global network of “right-wing extremists,” and they have not called for the indiscriminate murder of American civilians.
As ubiquitous as this propaganda is, insistent repetitions of Big Lies doesn’t make them true – even when they’re repeated by that saintly victim, Ilhan Omar, and her obliging establishment media stooges such as Alex Henderson of AlterNet.
Robert Spencer is the director of Jihad Watch and a Shillman Fellow at the David Horowitz Freedom Center. He is author of 21 books, including the New York Times bestsellers The Politically Incorrect Guide to Islam (and the Crusades) and The Truth About Muhammad. His latest book is Rating America’s Presidents: An America-First Look at Who Is Best, Who Is Overrated, and Who Was An Absolute Disaster. Follow him on Twitter here. Like him on Facebook here.
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43 Comments
3 years ago
Yes,….election day is terrorizing the Demons…
3 years ago
Reply to
Maranatha
What will happen when socialist blacks show up to riot, and huge crowds of pro-Trump blacks show up to crowd them out? About 42% of black now support Trump…
Trump’s Support Among Likely Black Voters Surges to 42%: Rasmussen
https://trendingpolitics.com/breaking-trump-s-support-among-likely-black-voters-surges-to-42-rasmussen/?utm_source=economics
“President Trump’s support among likely black voters hasn’t just gone up a bit, it has exploded, no doubt thanks in large part to his and the Republican Party’s continuous outreach which was on full display during the party’s recent convention…
And for other non-White “likely” voters, approval is at an astounding 56%.”
3 years ago
Commies hate Trump, but Hispanics support him. New Mexico is now in play, because of support from the high Hispanic population, who express bigger support for Trump than white support for Trump [Rasmussen]:
3 years ago
They are going to keep treading on us and we’re going to keep taking it- right up until we simply don’t anymore. May heaven help them once that happens.
3 years ago
Reply to
Philip
Even Barr seems to be getting fed up with fake news:
Barr Criticizes Journalistic Integrity of Media Over Riot Coverage
https://www.theepochtimes.com/barr-criticizes-journalistic-integrity-of-media-over-riot-coverage_3497391.html
Attorney General William Barr has reiterated his concerns about the journalistic landscape in America, saying that the press has done away with journalistic integrity in order to propagate political narratives.
“They’re basically a collection of liars. Most of the mainstream media. They’re a collection of liars and they know exactly what they’re doing,” Barr said in an interview with conservative outlet Townhall on Friday.
“A perfect example of that were the riots. Right on the street it was clear as day what was going on, anyone observing it, reporters observing it, it could not have escaped their attention that this was orchestrated violence by a hardened group of street fighting radicals and they kept on excluding from their coverage all the video of this and reporting otherwise and they were doing that for partisan reasons, and they were lying to the American people. It wasn’t until they were caught red-handed after essentially weeks of this lie that they even started feeling less timid.”
3 years ago
Reply to
DemocracyRules2
For a long time, I’ve completely eschewed the concept of Civil War talk. I thought the whole thing was insipid and unpleasant. I’ve just about had it with the “loyal opposition.” They seem to want nothing more than to cause harm across the board. I really don’t want to fight these morons but they really seem to be itching for a conflict. At some point, the dam is going to break to their detriment. G-d save me, I’m ready if and when it does. I honestly don’t think they’ve thought this whole thing through. As before, the Democratic party is going to be made to suffer violently and I’m actually ok with that at this point. Here’s the unfortunate rub: I’m not by any means alone.
I’m still calling John Kerry’s yacht IF SHTF.
3 years ago
Reply to
Philip
Hi Philip: “G-d save me, I’m ready if and when it does.”
Yes, one of the best modes of prevention is preparation. And it is very important to prepare. Similar things happened in 1968, after communists disrupted and hijacked the Democrat convention in Chicago. Riots and civil disturbances were widespread. The Dems seemed desperate to grab power, and the result was a Nixon landslide. The ‘Silent Majority’ remained mostly quiet, and they voted the Dems out. Of course ANYTHING that conservatives do will be labelled ‘racist backlash’. So we will have to be calm, determined, and persistent.
“I honestly don’t think they’ve thought this whole thing through.”
Socialists simply follow the instructions laid out in the Communist Manifesto, Lenin’s writings, Cloward Piven, and ‘Rules for Radicals’. Those sources all concur that violent revolution is necessary to grab power. So, since nothing else is working against Trump, the Dems are doing a ‘Hail Mary Pass’ and hoping it works: “If in doubt, riot.”
Hitler found that stirring up the opponent actually helped him, because it increased the civil unrest and street battles, and then Hitler promised to ‘fix it’.
If the Dems looked at what happened to them in Missouri, before, during, and after the Civil War, they would back off. It was unbelievably cruel and messy. The pro-slavery Democrats engaged in chaotic acts of mortality and morbidity, randomly, and often against innocents. The anti-slavery Republicans eventually responded with their own atrocities, and the Democrats labelled that ‘gratuitous violence’. The problem was that law enforcement was too thinly spread to stop it, and it continued for years after the Civil War. For example, a farmer came back from the fields to find his whole family wiped out, and whole villages were deceased.
Stupidly, historians of that time period often comment that “atrocities occurred on both sides”. But of course, the Dems started it, and the Republicans eventually stopped it. Any Dem who reads an account of those horrible times should be loathe to repeat them. In those settings, human lives are nasty, brutish, and short.
3 years ago
Reply to
DemocracyRules2
I’m ready like Freddy, my brother. Nor am I alone. I’m genuinely hoping they don’t insist on forcing this- for their own sake. If they force this upon us, unlike the last time, we are going to end them for good because they truly need to be ended, preferably politically. Sometimes enough is simply enough. For my own part, I’m unfortunately eager at this point to bite. I’ll be good until I have no other choice- because I am good. I really do not think they realize how much they have pissed us all off at this point. Once their bow breaks they are really, really in for it. G-d save their collective stupid a**es.
I’m still calling John Kerry’s Yacht. It will be mine if they don’t stop.
3 years ago
Reply to
Philip
“I’m unfortunately eager at this point to bite”
I hope you can stomach it. It’s the innocents that bothers me. And there will inevitably be some, no matter how careful we are. It happened in Missouri, and it will happen this time as well.
3 years ago
Reply to
DemocracyRules2
It’s the fake news that bothers me. When I say “bothers” I think I mean “disgusts.” If G-d forbid, SHTF, it’s really going to be open season on them. They don’t even know at this point how much they will be WILLINGLY killed. There will be a bounty on ALL of them. They STILL do not even realize this, sadly.
3 years ago
Reply to
Philip
Well I hope you read about Missouri Civil War history. If we go after them, they will come after us. And we need to be ready for the consequences.
3 years ago
Reply to
DemocracyRules2
I think you’re both neglecting the realities of today compared to the 1860’s. The world is a global entity now, and more than a few enemies would be ready to pounce at any weakness coming from the top dog in the pack.
The UN would salivate at the chance to intervene in a civil war on American soil…you know, for the sake of ‘peace and security’.
I know you both realize al this already, but it is late in their game and the “time we’ve all been waiting for” is their opportunity to advance…nothing will be held back, and I don’t just mean Democrat to Republican. The puppet masters are wide awake.
3 years ago
Reply to
James Jones
You guys, all three, should see the “security shotgun” I have handy. In Vietnam, we called them trench guns, an ideal weapon when on patrol during a rocket attack while searching any sappers who may have breached the perimeter.
Be safe, be trained, be alert.
3 years ago
Reply to
James Jones
The UN relies on the military forces of its member states — in the past Pakistaini forces have made up a significant proportion of UN’s “military”.
3 years ago
Reply to
MuhamMUDTheFakeProphet
I know the idea of a UN sanctioned ‘police action’ on American soil, seems pretty ‘far out’ there, like a “Red Dawn” scenario, but, just wondering aloud, could it get there?
The UN is the face of the entity that comprises the ‘beast’s’ system, and America is the last obstacle in its way. That military scenarios involving ways and means of such incursions have been the subject of many ‘planning’ sessions, is a given, and undoubtedly the conclusion has always come down to it being an impossibility to confront US might full and head-on. But, what if sufficient chaos (civil war) was brewed, and backed by calls from powerful political figures, the door was ‘officially’ opened…?
We already know that a sizable portion of the elite political class are fully onboard with the mandate to establish the NWO, and that they fully intend to submerse America into violent chaos in the months following Trump’s re-election. If all this was a ‘stand alone’ issue, it could be just dismissed as utter rubbish, but we all know that the field is set for chaos on just about every level and the iron is ready for striking.
Its hard to conceive of a scenario such as this in our near future, we get used to life as we live it, but when the conditions are right, these things playout quickly, and with the backdrop of prophecy being in complete harmony with world events like never before, I don’t think it wise to be dismissive of something just because we don’t want it.
3 years ago
Reply to
DemocracyRules2
Online is one thing, offline is another. I pray that you are well stocked, come what may.
3 years ago
Reply to
DemocracyRules2
Put yer money where yer mouth is – and start meting out some freaking JUSTICE. Not some low level bottom tier flunky lawyer –
3 years ago
Reply to
Philip
Even Barr seems to be getting fed up with fake news:
Barr Criticizes Journalistic Integrity of Media Over Riot Coverage
https://www.theepochtimes.com/barr-criticizes-journalistic-integrity-of-media-over-riot-coverage_3497391.html
Attorney General William Barr has reiterated his concerns about the journalistic landscape in America, saying that the press has done away with journalistic integrity in order to propagate political narratives.
“They’re basically a collection of liars. Most of the mainstream media. They’re a collection of liars and they know exactly what they’re doing,” Barr said in an interview with conservative outlet Townhall on Friday.
“A perfect example of that were the riots. Right on the street it was clear as day what was going on, anyone observing it, reporters observing it, it could not have escaped their attention that this was orchestrated violence by a hardened group of street fighting radicals and they kept on excluding from their coverage all the video of this and reporting otherwise and they were doing that for partisan reasons, and they were lying to the American people. It wasn’t until they were caught red-handed after essentially weeks of this lie that they even started feeling less timid.”
3 years ago
Reply to
Philip
THEY ARE COUNTING ON HAVING A U.N. CONTROLLED ARMY AND THEIR ZOMBIE SUPPORTERS BEHIND THEM LED BY VP CROOKED COP PROSECUTOR SEN. KAMALA HARRIS WHO WILL BE REALLY RUNNING THE COUNTRY UNDER DEMENTIAL VP DADDY JOE BRIBE’M/BIDEN THROWING US IN JAIL AND TAKING AWAY OUR POLITICAL RIGHTS! UNFORTUNATELY, WE HAVE ONLY 40% OF THE U.S. POPULATION ALBEIT THE BETTER ARMED PART OF IT WHICH IS WHY THEY HAVE TO TAKE DOWN THE 2ND AMENDMENT TO DO WHAT THEY PLAN! I HEAR YOU BUT FEEL THE NEED TO CAUTION FOLKS TO GET REAL AND NOT TAKE COMFORT IN THAT THOUGHT BECAUSE OBJECTIVELY IF VP BRIBE’M/BIDEN ACTUALLY UNSEATS PRES. TRUMP IT IS ALL OVER!
3 years ago
“But one need only look at the history of white supremacist terrorism to realize how ignorant that claim is?”
I don’t ever recall anyone on the right rioting, etc. What I have noticed is dem and dem supporters accusing the right of doing what they actually do.
3 years ago
Reply to
anonQ
“CHURCHES” IS MISSPELLED BRINGS IT DOWN TO 7 STARS AS IT IS HISTORICALLY TRUE!
3 years ago
They are not wrong in saying Trump supporters are the biggest terror threat, but to whom are we a threat is where they get it wrong. For the most terrifying force of death comes from the hands of men who just wanted to be left alone.
3 years ago
3 years ago
3 years ago
Mental retardation still alive among leftists.
3 years ago
Remember that crack Obhammud made about an element of US society that clings to God, guns, and religion?
It is he and his ilk that are the danger. Now you see why I carry a concealed weapon on me everywhere I go, especially to church.
An armed society is a polite society .
Be safe, be trained, be alert.
3 years ago
Reply to
Drew the Infidel
I remember that quote from Obama and yet he claims to be a Born Again Christian though he still has a 100% islamic name, as most muslims who convert to Christianity change at least their first name, for instance Mohamad becomes Mathew, so is Obama really an apostate within islam, if so then why did the people of Egypt welcome him like a saviour.
Obama is a servant of Lucifer.
3 years ago
Terrorists are people who terrorize other people.
Donald Trump and his followers do terrorize the far left extremists. America terrorizes them. Patriotism terrorizes them. They are, in short, in deep fear all the time.
3 years ago
I met an English guy recently in Asia, where I live, Im Scottish, who told me he took a Greyhound Bus from LA to NYC, it took 8 days, he said he didnt like America and that ALL Americans are stupid and then he told me with a perfectly straight face that he fears Texan men with guns more than he has ever feared islamic terrorists, he has never been in Texas, so i asked him when was the last time a Texan man blew up an Airport,Train Station,Pop Concert, Bus,Underground Subways, he looks at me and asks if I am a Trump supporter so I guess he thinks only Trump supporter,like me, can think for themselves.
I told him I would rather have a real Texan standing beside me in a showdown than a soy boy from England that cant fight their way out of a wet paper bag or even protect the young girls in England from being raped by bloody savage Pakistani “men”…
Dont Mess with Texas..
3 years ago
Reply to
Andrew Blackadder
Frankly i don’t give a rats as- where you’re from – its called ” United States ” for a reason – figures, a limey – tell him to go lick montys dead nu-s..
3 years ago
Reply to
volksnut
I pretty much told him he was a wanker as one of the best things the USA ever did in its history, was to kick the bloody British OUT… Trump 2020.
3 years ago
It is true that Commonsense Constitutional Conservatives are a direct threat to the perverted Marxist’s on the Far-Left.
And WE are very proud of that fact…!
3 years ago
Meanwhile, everyone knows the real threat to this country can be seen in the rioting and looting, the move to do away with the police, an old, senile man – a puppet – running for president, the blatant lying coming from the left, the election fraud, the use of congress in an attempt to oust a duly elected president, the MSM being more than willing to perpetrate lies to support a corrupt party….there’s a long list of clues as to where this country is headed. By the time the left realizes where their corruption is leading, it will be too late.
3 years ago
Once again the Left deflects it’s failures and crimes on others…The only thing we need to fear is the allowed existence of any democrat6 to survive after November..They must be eradicated from this planet..
3 years ago
Hmmm in what psycho ward are these nutbags living in – Whos CURRENTLY burning several cities to the ground as well as setting arson fires in the west to shooting and attacking law enforcement?
3 years ago
These politicians have been around for 30-40 years, and during that time most have become very wealthy. They are very unhappy because President Trump, is emptying the SEPTIC TANK.
