‘Murica Not Muhammad: Righties Outraged That Their Killers Are Called Terrorists
AUTHOR: CHARLES TOPHER JULY 2, 2015 11:59 AM

 
The New York Times recently put out an article claiming that more people have been killed by home-grown right-wing extremists than Islamic Jihadists since September 11th. While some of the numbers and instances of terrorism used in the article could be considered questionable, the article as a whole highlights what is a growing faction of extremists living among us.

The right, of course, refuses to take any responsibility for their creation, opting instead to deny there’s a problem with an ideology that turns gun-loving, uneducated racists into anti-government terrorists who very openly discuss their plans for revolution on social media.

Right-wing extremists killed 41, not 48. That makes it okay.
According to the Times article, 48 people have been killed by right-wing terrorists since September 11th compared to 26 by self-proclaimed Islamic jihadists. Megan McCardle, right-leaning writer from Bloomberg, argues that those numbers may be skewed in favor of a political position, so to un-skew them in favor of a political position, she manages to get the number of right-wing attacks down to 41, and adds 10 to jihads with an obscure note by one of the beltway killers.

Her final “score” then, is 41-36. Ha. So there.
 
Plus, she adds, the numbers don’t include September 11th, which dwarfs even the 1996 bombing of the federal building in Oklahoma City.

What this all boils down to is a pandemic of the right making excuses for the monsters it creates. When Jerad and Amanda Miller gunned down three people in the name of ‘Murica, the right quietly shook their heads and blamed mental illness. When Dylann Roof killed nine parishioners while they prayed having been inspired by right-wing hatred for blacks, the right tried like hell to claim “Christian persecution” and become the victims. When it became obvious that Roof was acting as one of them, they again quietly shook their heads, stopped covering the incident and expressed sorrow for what this poor mentally ill boy did.

If they don’t scream “Allahu Akbar” they aren’t terrorists, they’re “patriots.”
What the right doesn’t understand is that what they’re building goes far above and beyond the statistics in a New York Times article or the opinion of a writer who dissents. There is an active and growing movement in this country of dimwitted people who will believe anything you tell them as long as its anti-Obama, anti-government or anti-poor. The Koch machine has a generation of imbeciles convinced that an army of poor people and minorities led by FEMA, DHS and now even the TSA, are coming for them, and they had better be ready.

It’s no longer a simple, “I don’t agree with you,” political movement; it’s a movement of heavily armed, low-information people with bunkers full of canned goods and ammo and Kevlar vests for their dogs.

There is no discounting extremism in any form. Islamic jihadists pose an incredible threat to the United States. That’s why the FBI, NSA, CIA, DHS and TSA are as diligent about rooting them out as they are. Another September 11th would be disastrous. Right-wing extremists pose the same risk. Just because the largest impact to date has been 168 dead in a single bombing, paling in comparison to 9/11, doesn’t mean that America wasn’t just as impacted when it was discovered that many of the Oklahoma victims were children playing in a daycare.

Terrorism is terrorism. People dying for political ideologies is wrong no matter what that ideology is.
The “your terrorism is worse than my terrorism” game needs to stop. Terrorism is terrorism. There is little we can do about Islamic terrorists coming from foreign lands to kill us on ideologies we can’t control other than to be vigilant and strong, intelligent and informed.

It’s getting to the point now where we can’t do much about the terrorism on the right, either. Home grown terrorists, sovereign citizens, militia members, the KKK – these people look and talk like we do. They blend in like Timothy McVeigh driving a rental truck. The difference is that these terrorists were created to expand a voting base. Their war on America is fought under the pretense that they are the Americans and we’re all traitors.

Will Fox News be on the front lines defending the militias as they approach Washington D.C. to overthrow the government? Will they take responsibility when tens of thousands of “risen again” southerners meet their maker on the wrong side of a mortar defensive?

No matter what they call themselves, they are enemies of the state. Our country will defend itself and its leaders, and no amount of good ol’ boys with semi-automatic weapons will oversee its demise.

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Jon Stewart, The Daily Show Jan 4, 2010

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