The Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) is reporting that almost two-thirds of the terror attacks in the United States last year were carried out by right-wing extremists. This is in line with data from previous years.
Citing data put together by researchers at Quartz and the Global Terrorism Database, the SPLC explained that right-wing terror attacks were carried out with "racist, anti-Muslim, homophobic, ant-Semetic, anti-government, or xenophobic motivations."
The remaining attacks were driven either by left-wing or Islamic extremists.
It's interesting to note that while terrorist attacks dropped globally from about 17,000 in 2014 to about 11,000 in 2017, terrorist attacks driven by right-wing extremism is up in the United States.
What this tells us is that unless Donald Trump plans on building a wall around the right-wing lunatic fringe in America, terror related attacks in America will not drop because of his border wall, or his border policies.
- Mark
The remaining attacks were driven either by left-wing or Islamic extremists.
It's interesting to note that while terrorist attacks dropped globally from about 17,000 in 2014 to about 11,000 in 2017, terrorist attacks driven by right-wing extremism is up in the United States.
- Mark
No comments:
Post a Comment