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ck4829 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-19-11 02:38 AM
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Have there been more ultra-right terror plots or more Islamic terror plots stopped since 9/11?
The answer may surprise you... or not.

"As conservative media hyped the commencement of Rep. Peter King's contentious hearings on Muslim radicalization in America, details continued to emerge about Kevin William Hardham, the 36-year-old Army field artillery veteran accused of planting a "weapon of mass destruction," along the route of a Martin Luther King Day unity parade route in Spokane, Washington earlier this year.

The backpack bomb Hardham allegedly planted contained shrapnel dipped in rat poison. It was discovered just minutes before hundreds of MLK Day marchers arrived. Hardham appears to have a long track record of fantasizing about politically and racially motivated violence in various online extremist forums.

The attempted MLK Day bombing in Spokane was hardly an isolated incident. Right-wing domestic terrorist plots and extremist violence are on the rise in America. Earlier this year the Muslim Public Affairs Council (MPAC) released a report analyzing domestic terrorism statistics reported by the FBI and other crime agencies since the 9/11 terrorist attacks. The MPAC report shows that since 9/11, right-wing extremists including neo-Nazis and other white supremacists have been involved in 63 domestic terror plots, while radical Muslims have been involved in 45."

http://mediamatters.org/blog/201103110005

Imagine the media and Peter King's reaction if a Muslim walked into a church with a shotgun and opened fire, killing two people and injuring several more... Oh wait, that was Jim Adkisson.

Imagine the media and Peter King's reaction if two Muslims wanted to go on a killing spree and try to assassinate a Presidential candidate... Oh wait, that was Daniel Cowart and Paul Schlesselman.

Imagine the media and Peter King's reaction if a Muslim woman called police and told them that she just killed her husband, and during the investigation the police found the husband had Islamic terrorist propaganda and an attempt to make a dirty bomb. Go ahead, try to think the media would be all hush hush over that. Oh, and the husband is no Islamic terrorist, he was James Cummings.
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Mojeoux Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-19-11 02:49 AM
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1. What IS UP with this????
And they target Cops and Cops' families in their killing sprees too.
Oh and this bitch in Arizona with her little vigilante murder spree that killed a man and his little girl of 9 years.
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dkf Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-19-11 02:56 AM
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2. Neither of those numbers are very comforting.
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Zax2me Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-19-11 03:09 AM
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3. Radical Muslims 45?!
I had no idea there were that many. I was only aware of a few. Neither of these numbers makes me feel too comfortable.
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