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   President Trump wants 'the facts' on right-wing extremism. Here they are.   
      
      
   Erroll G. Southers,   
      
      
   We've been conditioned to view terrorism as the exclusive province of   
   extremist Muslims. And now the chickens are coming home to roost.   
      
      
   In the aftermath of the white nationalist rally in Charlottesville, Va.,   
   President Trump said he needed to have “the facts” before passing judgment   
   on whether a torch-carrying, swastika-waving mob deserved condemnation.   
      
   Mr. President, here’s a fact. The white nationalist and homegrown violent   
   extremist James Alex Fields Jr. has been charged with killing Heather   
   Heyer in an ISIS-style terrorist attack. And here’s another fact: right-   
   wing violent extremism in the United States has been growing dramatically   
   for years, and your equivocation is emboldening its adherents.   
      
   The “Unite the Right” gathering was not just another racist rally. It was   
   terrible evidence of a dangerous convergence of extremist ideologies that   
   extol the notion of “RAHOWA” (racial holy war). The Charlottesville rally   
   put neo-Nazis, militia Constitutionalists, neo-Confederates and several   
   factions of the KKK shoulder to shoulder. These groups are traditionally   
   fragmented and rife with internal conflict. In Charlottesville, they found   
   in one another a shared desire for legitimacy. When the most powerful   
   person in the world abdicates a moral obligation to call these groups what   
   they are, it grants them the legitimacy they seek.   
      
   Trump is right — violent extremists on both sides are a threat   
      
   Police must act fast to protect First Amendment rights: Robert Shibley   
      
   To further satisfy the president’s sudden desire for fact, it is essential   
   to understand that the road to the Charlottesville attack was not traveled   
   in a night, nor even a decade. Since 9/11, the uptick in terrorism has not   
   come from foreign threats. Instead it is owed to homegrown terrorists,   
   with significant surges in attacks in 2008 and 2012, coinciding with the   
   election and re-election of Barack Obama, America’s first African-American   
   president.   
      
      
   The New America Foundation reports an almost 2-1 ratio of attacks by far-   
   right extremists over Islamist extremists. The Anti-Defamation League   
   reports that from 2007 to 2016, a diverse collection of extremists was   
   responsible for the deaths of at least 372 people in the United States;   
   74% of these murders came at the hands of right wing extremists. These   
   trends are accelerating, rapidly. In an eight-day period in May, for   
   example, there was a string of violent extremist incidents that received   
   little media attention and, unsurprisingly, no condemnation from the   
   president.   
      
   •    May 20 – Richard Collins III, an African American and Bowie State   
   University student, was stabbed to death by Sean Urbanski, a member of a   
   Facebook group called the "Alt-Reich: Nation."   
      
   •    May 26 – Three men in Portland tried to stop white supremacist Jeremy   
   Christian  from harassing two women who appeared to be Muslim. For their   
   bravery, the three men were viciously attacked; two were murdered and the   
   third was seriously injured.   
      
   •    May 27 – Anthony Hammond was arrested in Clearlake, Calif. for   
   allegedly stabbing a black man with a machete, after yelling racial slurs.   
   While en route to the Lake County Jail, Hammond threatened to kill the   
   transporting officer and his family once he was released. Hammond was   
   charged with committing a hate crime, among other charges.   
      
   •    May 28 – Two Native American men in Washington State were run over by   
   a pickup truck driven by a white man shouting racial slurs and war whoops.   
   One of the tribal members was killed and the other hospitalized.   
      
   All of these attacks were committed by extremists who appear to be   
   inspired by a politically motivated ideology that posits racial, moral and   
   religious superiority and demands violent action to advance it. People are   
   dead or injured because of ideologically motived attacks. Where is the   
   public outrage? Where are the calls for national unity and enhanced   
   security? Why aren’t we asking where and how these people were   
   radicalized?   
      
      
   Trump and white supremacist haters: He's delivering much more than words   
      
   The truth of it is that our nation has been conditioned to view terrorism   
   as the exclusive province of extremist Muslims. And now the chickens are   
   coming home to roost. For far too long, the terrorist threat from white   
   supremacists has grown in the shadows. They are feeling emboldened,   
   shameless for their shameful ideas, and they are coming together in ways   
   that will only lead to more violence.   
      
   We are facing a clear and present danger. We all must rally behind the   
   ideas of equality and freedom, led by an executive branch that calls   
   racism and terrorism what it is. Until we do that, there is no question   
   this will happen again. That’s a fact.   
      
   Erroll G. Southers, a former FBI special agent and former assistant chief   
   of police, Los Angeles World Airports Police Department, is director of   
   Homegrown Violent Extremism Studies at the University of Southern   
   California Sol Price School of Public Policy. Follow him on Twitter:   
   @esouthersHVE   
      
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