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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsTrump lied. Right-wing extremists not foreigners commit more terror attacks in the U.S.
Esther Yu Hsi Lee at Think Progress
https://thinkprogress.org/trump-false-claim-foreign-born-domestic-attacks-54e99b0e11b6#.hb7u3nz6b
"SNIP............
But more importantly, foreigners pose less of a threat to Americans than right-wing extremists on domestic soil. In a 2015 New York Times article, University of North Carolina Professor Charles Kurzman and Duke Professor David Schanzer found that Islam-inspired terror attacks accounted for 50 deaths since 9/11, but that right-wing extremists averaged 337 attacks per year in the decade after 9/11, causing a total of 254 fatalities.
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Eliot Rosewater
(31,109 posts)Facts dont matter to rightwingers who support the fascist.
White, rightwing extremists could and actually do cause way way more death than so called Islamic in this country, but they dont care, their racism is what they care about.
Initech
(100,059 posts)Than you are by ISIS or al Qaeda! But nope, according to Wayne La Pierre, we're the violent ones.
Dark n Stormy Knight
(9,760 posts)RW extremist, greedy, lying assholes.