Of course, they’re still missing the point
‘A perfect storm’: Extremism online and political polarization are increasing the risk of attacks, experts say
The ISIS-inspired attack in New Orleans underscores how extremism online and political divisions at home have created “a perfect storm” for radicalization in America, experts say, with law enforcement struggling to track an increasingly fractured threat.
Finding and accessing extremist communities online has never been easier, the threat has never been higher, and the ideology of those carrying out attacks has never been more splintered, according to the experts.
“What the FBI and law enforcement in general are dealing with right now is a threat landscape that is both diverse and complicated,” said Seamus Hughes, a senior researcher and policy associate with the National Counterterrorism Innovation, Technology, and Education Center at the University of Nebraska Omaha. “That makes things a little harder for law enforcement.”
“We have a level of polarization in the U.S. that’s an important factor,” he said. “The online environment has algorithms that are set up to make you angry. And all that is playing into a perfect storm of factors that are leading to an increase in radicalization.”
What they really mean by polarization is you big old meanie Conservatives, even as they note, sort of, who’s doing this
According to the federal government, the main terror threat to the U.S. now is lone actors inspired by extremism ideology. Those ideologies range widely. The majority of attackers are on the far right, as in the 2022 Buffalo supermarket shooting. But sometimes, as in the New Orleans attack, the driving ideology is radical Islamism. Occasionally, it’s far-left or anti-Trump, as in the 2017 attack on Republican members of Congress and staffers at a baseball practice outside Washington and the apparent assassination attempt of Trump in Florida last year, or at other times a mix of ideologies, what FBI Director Christopher Wray has called “salad bar extremism.”
See?
And the two who tried to kill Trump weren’t exactly on the right, now, were they? The idea of the article is, shockingly, an attempt to protect the Religion of Peace, claiming that 364 attacks came from white supremacists and 137 came from “anti-government” (weird we almost never hear about them), but, only 125 came from Islamists. Except for all those who were protesting Israel and Jews and attacking them. Oh, and just 47 from left wing. This is all about protecting the Islamic radicals, who, surprise, who be happy to blow up NBC buildings and do not care what political persuasion one is if they are Americans and Jews.
“We’re seeing more and more people sort of pick and choose their own ideology to suit their own grievances,” Horgan said. “They look to find a reason to make sense of what they have already decided they want to do.”
You mean like people who do not understand basic biology and are gender deranged? Much further down, though, we learn
After several years of reduced activity in the U.S., 2024 saw a rise in Islamist terror attacks and foiled plots, according to the Anti-Defamation League’s Center for Extremism, which tracks extremist attacks and confirmed plots around the country.
That shift had the center’s vice president, Oren Segal, worried even before the New Orleans attack, he said. “It was alarming to us that after subsiding for so many years, there were indications that more and more people who subscribe to this ideology were willing to try to engage in this activity.”
“Part of this may be in response to groups abroad regrouping, part of it may be to the Israel and Palestinian conflict,” he said. “There were many signs that this type of activity was increasing.”
This could have anything to do with the Biden-Harris admin letting in tons of people of whom we have no idea who they are. We do know that lots are from the Middle East and Muslim extremist nations. All added to the Islamic extremists already in the nation and preaching jihad. Perhaps news outlets like NBC News should see the reality, rather than attempting to protect jihadis.
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