Why does white supremacist-related violence pose a greater danger to the US than militant groups like Daesh and Al Qaeda?
James Alex Fields Jr., second from left, holds a black shield in Charlottesville, Va., where a white supremacist rally took place on August 12 2017. The following week, Fields was charged with second-degree murder and other counts after he plowed a car into a crowd of people protesting the white nationalist rally.
This is the first time the FBI has identified far-right violence as a bigger threat to the country's security than any foreign terror group. Center on Extremism, 71 percent of killings related to extremism have been committed by white supremacists between 2008 and 2017, while extremists related to groups like Al Qaeda, are responsible for 26 percent of fatal violence.
However, it seems US law enforcement has recently turned its attention to focus on the violence caused by far-right movements. “We’re very busy,” Wray told leading lawmakers in the the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, at the US Congress. In 2018, the number of defendants facing terrorism charges related to Muslim-origin groups dropped to nine,
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