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   MOST TERRORISTS IN THE U.S. ARE RIGHT WING, NOT MUSLIM: REPORT   
      
   U.S. President Donald Trump was elected vowing to get tough on “radical   
   Islamic terrorism.” He has tried to implement a travel ban barring people   
   from six Muslim-majority nations from entering the U.S. and has tweeted   
   frequently about Islamist terrorist attacks around the world. On Thursday, a   
   new report claimed the president has his facts muddled.   
      
   A joint project by the Investigative Fund at the Nation Institute, a   
   nonprofit media center, and Reveal from the Center for Investigative   
   Reporting has found that within the past nine years, right-wing extremists   
   plotted or carried out nearly twice as many terrorist attacks as Islamist   
   extremists. Of the 115 right-wing incidents, police only foiled 35 percent.   
   Compare this to the 63 Islamist terrorism cases, where police foiled 76   
   percent of the planned attacks.   
      
   Right-wing extremists were not only more successful, they were often more   
   deadly, too. From 2008 to 2016, a third of right-wing attacks involved   
   fatalities, compared to 13 percent of Islamist attacks. It should be noted,   
   however, that Islamist extremists killed more people overall, with a death   
   toll of 90 people compared to 79.   
      
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   In a statement pointing out the higher rate of successful, right-wing   
   terrorist attacks, the Investigative Fund said: “This project quantifies just   
   how irrational Trump and the GOP's fixation on 'radical Islamic terrorism' as   
   the greatest security threat is.”   
      
   “Fixation” might be the right word. The president has yet to acknowledge the   
   problem of right-wing violence, remaining uncharacteristically silent after   
   an Islamophobic attack on a mosque in London that left one man dead. (Trump   
   tweeted about the three incidents of Islamist terrorism that have hit the   
   U.K. capital in recent months.)   
      
   Part of the problem, the Investigative Fund and Reveal suggest, are the   
   people that Trump has advising him. Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn, the president’s   
   former national security adviser,  had said that “fear of Muslims is   
   rational,” and that he doesn’t “see Islam as a religion.” Trump advisor Steve   
   Bannon has referred to Islam as a “religion of submission,” and is believed   
   to have been a strong advocate for the ban on certain nationalities entering   
   the U.S. (As the former head of Breitbart News, Bannon boasted that the   
   organization was “the platform for the alt-right.”)   
      
   The new administration, says Reveal and the Investigative Fund, is therefore   
   unlikely to change the culture whereby federal authorities disproportionately   
   focus on potential Islamist extremists. Of the incidents’ the two   
   organizations registered, federal authorities handled 91 percent of the   
   Islamist ones and just 60 percent of the right-wing ones.   
      
      
      
   http://www.newsweek.com/right-wing-extremism-islamist-terrorism-donald-trump-   
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