This is wildly unlikely. The Islamic State is a global network of terrorists; white nationalists aren’t. The Islamic State has issued numerous calls for the murder of civilians inside the U.S.; white nationalists haven’t. The Islamic State has inspired many terror plots and attacks in the U.S. already; white nationalists, far fewer.
This bogus analysis from the FBI looks to be an attempt to justify the politically correct diversion of resources away from dealing with the jihad threat, so as to appease Muslim groups in the U.S.
“White Nationalism Is as Much of a Threat to U.S. as ISIS, FBI’s Open Investigations Show,” by Harriet Sinclair, Newsweek, September 27, 2017:
The threat of white nationalist violence in the U.S. is at least as big a threat as that posed by the Islamic State (ISIS) and similar groups, the FBI revealed Wednesday.
Director Chris Wray told the Senate Homeland Security and Government Affairs Committee that there are currently 1,000 open investigations into domestic terrorist groups and another 1,000 probes into groups with radical Islamist ideology.
But the similar numbers did not satisfy some members of the panel, with several complaining of a double standard in how attacks from white supremacists were investigated compared with those carried out by people who identified as having radical Islamist ideology.
The number of attacks carried out by white supremacists were “almost triple” those of those carried out by people who identified with groups such as ISIS, said Democratic Senator Claire McCaskill of Missouri. And government data obtained by The Hill suggests the number of white supremacist attacks compared to those from radical Islamist groups was as many as two to one.
“We have had zero hearings on the threat of domestic terrorists and the threat they pose and our response to it,” McCaskill said, explaining there had been a number of hearings about ISIS, but none about white supremacists.
But said white nationalism is no more or less of a priority for the FBI that threats from terrorist organizations.
“We take both of them very, very seriously,” The Hill reported Wray as saying. “Our focus is on violence and threats of violence against the people of this country. That’s our concern; it’s not ideology.”….
David Stephenson says
This is what has been screamed at me on social media – this very “statistic”. Yet where is the statistic?
Seems like a “look! there’s a squirrel!” kind of claim. As Jihad Watch points out, they never include 9/11 numbers in any stats.
Wellington says
The FBI can read any literature that white supremacists spew out for purposes of finding motivation and cause by white supremacists but they can’t read any Islamic literature that has been spewed out over the centuries, including that God-awful work, the Koran, for purposes of finding motivation and cause by Islamic terrorists. This is both stupid and indicative of a huge double standard.
Westman says
“We have had zero hearings on the threat of domestic terrorists and the threat they pose and our response to it,”
Why? Because they are lying about any equivalence and know it. Once they are forced to normalize the statistics to the populations, it falls apart. If one gets into the actual descriptions of mahem it also falls apart, as equivalent, simply through analysis of anecdotal evidence.
For that reason, they don’t want to get into details where statisticians will declare it invalid. This equivalence is little more than gossip created and injected to diminish the seriousness of jihad. Keeping your eyes on the circus is the intent.
Big Brother is watching over you, and you are getting sleepy……when you wake up we will be in a war somewhere.
Carolyne says
I know of two White Nationalist murders. Only two. Timothy McVeigh and the murder of hundreds, not thousands, in Oklahoma city and the incident in the Church in Charleston. There might be others of which I am unaware, but I believe they would have screamed it from the rooftops if it had happened. On the other hand, Muslims have committed many acts of terror, the World Trade Center attack killed almost 3000 people and I don’t know how many at the Pentagon. There are many others in this country alone and dozens in Western Europe.
What a crock. They are, as usual, lying. Protecting that big US Muslim, Hussein Obama.
Bezelel says
i haven’t actually met anyone who identifies as a white supremacist. I do know several “white” people who feel threatened and marginalized after 8 yrs of hussein obola. For over 8 yrs now anyone who disagrees with him and his agenda has been deemed a racist. With all the demonizing of white people going on, and the definition of racist being expanded to include any number of civilized behaviors, all to try to pin the “white guilt” complex on all non suicidal caucasians. I would guess to keep defenses paralyzed.
Voytek Gagalka says
Logical conclusion with this “analysis” of theirs must be this: The FBI is the much bigger threat to freedoms of Americans than any other outside threats.
infidel numero uno says
Who were the author and editor of this BS report. What kind of analysts are now working in the FBI. Deep State onumbnuts supporters are still in place. The DOJ needs to purge the FBI of ALL hired during the dark period of the illegal WH squatter.
Darryl Kerney says
“It’s not ideology…”
And as Robert has said for years,
If you don’t know the ideology you can’t defend the nation from it.
R Cole says
The threat from Islamic terrorism is somewhere equal to white supremacist violence, especially when Obama downplayed Islamic terror attacks to workplace violence and there was no mention of Islam as a motivating factor.
You wouldn’t think that we just saw ISIS videos of synchronized beheadings. As well as the uptick in Islamic attacks across Europe. In the last year, several EU nations have been forced to place troops on the streets, the UK included, because the police can’t cope. And France, which has the largest Muslim population, has been under a state of emergency coming up to two years.
Whenever Muslims attacks; then ‘it’s not all Muslims’. But one guy with white supremacist sympathies drives his car over people at the Charlottesville protest, and ‘it’s everybody on the right,’ the people many on the Left and media despise.
No one seemed to ask the FBI about Antifa, designated a domestic terror organization, the Leftwing and corporate street thug brownshirts. No surprise there.
Mongoose says
So what kind of record do they have of White nationalist attacks to base this threat level at?
Is it the Slim, or the none File.
Rouge1 says
The idiots are in charge.
duh swami says
I’m not sure what White Nationalists are…I generally don’t follow sports,,,When was the last tine a WN flew a plane into a building, or burned a man alive in a cage, beheaded children e or murdered people in a night club, Christmas party or an airport…It would seem The White Nationalists are behind on points…
Wellington says
Grimly humorous, as often you are, duh swami.
Joe says
Yeah, I don’t know of any “white nationalists” groups. We get all these labels, but we never get the definition. The last I heard, it was the “alt right” which was never defined either. So according to the FBI group, some undefined group is more of a threat than Islam which has killed 275 million people and about 250 million of those was after the fighting stopped. I think the “white nationalists” must mean “American taxpayers”. If the “American taxpayers” knew of all the criminal activity inside the FBI, the FBI would have their pay cut which is why the FBI has so many investigations into “American taxpayers”.
mohamonator says
Strangely enough, not a peep about antifa, black bloc, anarchists and other far left terrorist elements. The FBI has been INFILTRATED–thouroughly.
More Ham Ed says
The “analysis” is from O’ Bummer’s leftover “FBI” & leftists are all about propaganda.
The so-called crusades was/were a response to islamic aggression.
WPM says
Trump has to remove the people running the FBI for the last 8 years . This fish stink starts at the people leading that agency .Enough about white nationalist groups , white nationalist are not spreading murder and mayhem on a global scale. They are not getting mountains of money to spread their hate and lies from Saudi Arabia ,and other rich Islamic hate centers. White nationalist do not have Moslem Brotherhood, CAIR ,the progressive libtards , or the SPLC protecting their back no matter what their holy men scream at their Mosques about killing Jews or Christians. Islamic terrorist groups are run like communist groups in the past, race is not a factor only their common belief that any violent action is justified in pushing their belief system to run the world..
Beagle says
No need to investigate Antifa plotting violence with ice picks and sawed off rifles.
https://youtu.be/RmNz2jGzsDA
Flavius Claudius Iulianus says
There are always going to be misfits and even violent misfits. But they can be dealt with if our societies are functioning properly. What is shocking about this undercover piece is that the MSM was caught on camera walking away from the story. (And yet the police were more than happy to use the footage to make arrests.) So the MSM is covering for ANTIFA and running interference for them.
Conclusion: the MSM is one of the biggest dangers to our democracies.
Sons of Liberty says
Exactly Flavius . The MSM is the propaganda arm of the MARXISTS . This is all right out of the Marxist playbook . Read the history of Lenin and the Bolsheviks, you divide and conquer ! All this RACIST propaganda , pit the blacks and Hispanics against the Whites . They are trying to TEAR OUR COUNTRY APART ,…and with the MSM ON THEIR SIDE, they are well on their way. Painting President Trump as a WHITE SUPREMACIST SUPPORTER , all white people as RACIST , our Country’s HISTORY IS TRASHED and must be torn down . This is how Lenin and his Bolsheviks took over Russia ! We even have one commenter above already BUYING INTO THIS PROPAGANDA. My fellow PATRIOTS do not fall into this MARXIST SCHEME. President Trump is the one who sees the danger , and put in the BAN . He is trying to SAVE our REPUBLIC , that the Founding Fathers created with the divine PROVIDENCE OF GOD. It is going to get worse before it gets better , the media attacks, the RACIST STORYLINE ARE ALL SEEKING TO divide us.
Carolyne says
The myth of White Privilege. I’m still waiting for that privilege. When will it be arriving?
Harold says
When lists are compiled comparing right-wing to Islamic or left-wing violence, the amount of right-wing violence is inflated by including cases that don’t belong there. Go to table 1 of the GOA’s for the list of “Far Right Violent Extremist Motivated Attacks.”
http://www.gao.gov/assets/690/683984.pdf
Included on the list are the Roseburg Oregon killing of 9 college students committed by a bi-racial man listed as “white supremacist” even though he was part black and there was no evidence of white supremacism. Prison murders are included. The murder of two child molesters is included. The Austin Texas IRS plane attack committed by a person who wrote a manifesto condemning capitalism, quoting the Communist Manifesto and condemning President Bush is included. Domestic crimes and street crimes are included. The numbers are also inflated by combining all sorts of crimes into “right wing”, (race related killings by whites, killings based upon gender, anti-government killings, anti-semitic killings)
Here is one item on the GAO list: “Two neo-Nazis and a third associate murdered a local drug-dealer, 1/9/2013 Verona Kentucky” The victim was white and news media reports say the killing was a motivated by anti-drug vigilantism.
What Islamic attacks are missing? When lists compare right-wing violence to left-wing violence, mass shootings by whites are listed as right wing, but mass shooting by blacks targeting whites are not included as left-wing violence.
jewdog says
Their concern is not ideology, he said. No, it’s bad breath in dogs, hemorrhoids and dishpan hands. An FBI devoid of ideas matches our current President’s preference, which is why he got rid of Gorka and O’Bannon, the last thinkers left in his cabinet. Intuition and instinct only go so far before the swamp seeps in and destroys any creativity.
balafama says
robert ,do we really need to compare ? kkk/nazi/neonazi’s /white nationalists are just as bad as isis jihadists if they had the power to effect their beliefs. history has shown us what these groups are capable of . neonazis are bad news ,period.
Joe says
The difference between the Nazis and Islam is that Islam has killed many more. As you demonstrate, people are afraid of the Nazis, but we welcome Islam.
Shmooviyet says
Yes!
Those “all are welcome” banners on fronts of houses aren’t inviting/encouraging the ‘white power’ psychos inside– only islamic ones, disguising themselves among others.
“…if they had the power to effect their beliefs.” Agreed, but is anyone giving them that power; are conservatives or mid-rights suddenly giving klan kooks so much as an ear?
Nothing quite so supremacist on earth as jihadis.
gravenimage says
balafama, white supremacists could be just as violent as Jihadists if they were so inclined. Certainly, at this point, they are not.
Douglas White says
Well, of course the Islamic state poses less of a threat. They aren’t even on the dam continent. I’m certain the answer would be reversed if they were shacked up in Detroit.
gravenimage says
Douglas, the Islamic State is calling for violence all over the West, and Muslims are acting in their name. Have you missed this?
Alec Rawls says
They must be classifying the criminal threat posed by white prison gangs as a terrorist threat, but by that standard the black prison gangs and the Mexican prison gangs would be just as big a “terrorist” threat. Are there ANY “white nationalist” groups outside of the prison gangs? The Democratic Party’s KKK isn’t an active group anymore is it?
The only one I’ve even heard of is the tiny group led by Richard Spencer, who calls himself a “white identitarian,” following in the identity group footsteps of Black Lives Matter and La Raza, but expressly non-violent. He did manage to attract one violent follower to Charlottesville but with weeks of free publicity from all the major networks was only able to get about 200 followers to come out to his “save the Robert E. Lee statue” rally, and many of them probably thought they were just coming out to protest the removal of the Robert E. Lee statue.
Demsci says
It’s a pity that they are not concerned with “ideology”. Because White Supremacism is associated with Nazism and KKK and those “organizations” are widely despised and hated. Crackdown on them, discrimination of it’s followers could be easily justified by a majority.
Equivalence of Islam with White Supremacism combined with concern about their ideological motivation would gives us an argument to deal with and discriminate against Muslims coming into or residing in Democratic Nations.
We know Muslims and Political Corrects are mortally offended by suggesting equivalence of Islam with White Supremacism. Indeed many writers, leaders, people are wrongfully accused of White Supremacism by Muslims and Political Corrects.
But many do think that Islam is also a supremacist ideology. And would not object to such a comparison.
So if our opponents want to fight White supremacist, we can compare and insist on the same standards in dealing with both followers of White AND Islamic Supremacism, or “all Supremacism”. And to let Democratic Nations pursue defense of tolerant democratic ideology against both. With all possible tools, including discrimination of both their followers, and limitation of freedom of religion.
But this report is not used for equivalence of White and Islamic Supremacism, and equal contempt for and fight against both ideologies, only for “radical Islam” and only to fight the violence, not doctrine, of both of their followers.
Terry Gain says
I agree that we should use their language against them. We should oppose all forms of Supremacism. And we should compare and contrast. We know Islamic Supremacists have been carried out over 34,000 attacks since 9/11. How many attacks have been carried out by White Supremacists.
And here in Canada our insane Liberal government is in the process of making it illegal to criticize Islamic Supremacism but nobody considers criticism of White Supremacists to be hate speech which ought to be illegal.
Theo Prinse says
In response to the 2017 protest in Charlottesville, Virginia, Canadian clinical psychologist, cultural critic, and professor of psychology at the University of Toronto.Jordan B Peterson criticized the far right’s use of identity politics, and said that “the Caucasians shouldn’t revert to being white. It’s a bad idea, it’s a dangerous idea, and it’s coming fast, and I don’t like to see that!” He stated that the notion of collective identity is “seriously pathological”, “reprehensible”, “devastating”, “genocidal”, and that “it will bring down our civilization if we pursue it.
Denny Lee Penticoff says
The FBI is the quicksand in the Deep State swamp.
The notion that a tiny minority of white supremacist citizens is as dangerous as ISIS to our national security is on the same level that Islam is a “religion of peace.”
Any student of past and contemporary history knows that Islam is a militant totalitarian ideology and that ISIS could be classified as a “predominantly white (defined as Caucasian) supremacist” group. Few Black or Asian Muslims are part of ISIS.
Lorensacho says
Anyone who says that white supremacists don’t pose a threat doesn’t remember Germany.
Bezelel says
Lorensacho, Current events are the topic and no one here is going to defend hitler, and the antifa tatics resenble hitler’s, and hitler was collaborating with islam, and islam is a supremacist org.
Donald R Laster Jr says
Don’t confuse “White Supremacist” with “White Nationalist”. They are the not the same, nor is the ideology the same. And Germany was taken over by the National Socialist – people following the Marxist/Socialist/Eugenics agenda. The only difference between National Socialist and International Socialist is the focus. Islam has more in common with International and National Socialism than people want to admit. It is a dictatorial government like all Socialist governments – no free thought and those in control rule absolutely.
Ric says
The proverbial swamp is not limited, it is awash with subversives of the Deep State; the FBI is only one of those with askew attempts to deflect the truth from the American public. No one, surely, does not believe that the extreme right is not a threat; nevertheless, to equate the latter with Islamist Terrorism is an absurdity; moreover, the FBI’s motive is unconscionable, unabashed deception and nefarious.
Ironically, a myriad of Americans deems the FBI as ethical and honorable in its function to battle ISIS and others of their like in want of America’s ultimate ruination. The extreme right has always been the at the top of the terror, even while, during the 70s, the Leftist Weathermen were at the root of murder and mayhem.
ISIS and its allies are not solely Muslim, but hardcore American leftists whose ultimate endeavor, also, is the overthrowing of this Constitutional Republic. The Marxist bent leftist progressives’ icons are Uncle Joe, Stalin, Mao, and so-forth. Being used and using Islam as an Ally will be the eventual end of this mutual accord of the Left and ISIS. The FBI is letting the trusting and unaware American people down, and the FBI is not an anomaly of this betrayal; the said swamp seemingly is fathomless and far-reaching.
Donald R Laster Jr says
The FBI was compromised after J Edgar Hoover died.
Donald R Laster Jr says
“White Nationalist” of the US are people working to protect the country from the “Left” and “Progressive” anti-US agenda. Islamics are citizens of a foreign government/State, Islam, that is at war with all non-Islamic controlled government and has been waging war over 1400 years to impose it on the world. That is simple facts. Obviously, the Islamics and Deep State are still influencing the FBI.
Henner720 says
Right wing nationalist and rightwing islamic state terrorists. It is all quite right wing . Så long as west milk the arab cow , its unproblematic to decieve the masses with a story from the warm countries.Deception at a high level.all oilmoney fueled.small racist to. “A few effective white nationalist are far more efficient and dangerous than 2000 mio. Sandniggaz”- racist.
UNCLE VLADDI says
Fire the authors of that report, then have them arrested and criminally charged with fraud, slander, and oh yeah – TREASON, for aiding and abetting the enemy (islam) which has declared war on us all.
Pretending that the global crime-gang called islam is a “race” of poor swarthy animal-people, oppressed by the mentally superior whites, in order to slander everyone who notices it’s a crime-gang as a hatefully bigoted “racist” – is to deliberately enable that crime-gang’s crimes by hiding and destroying the evidence of same, and thus to be a willing accessory to those crimes. Since islam is a murder-gang, and the penalty for committing and enabling the commission of murder is DEATH, anyone and everyone who calls an opponent of muslims, islam, and their global jihad, a “racist!” should be lawfully put to death.
Everyone who defends islam and muslims endorses crime.
Endorsing crime IS a crime, so those doing it are criminals.
Right in the Qur’an is: the obligation to murder Jews and Christians (Surah 9:29), to terrorize all non-Muslims (8:12), to rape young girls (65:4), to enslave people for sex (4:3), to lie about one’s true goals (3:54), and the command to make war on all the infidels (9:123) and subjugate the entire world to Allah (9:33).
Are death-threats legal? NO.
Is extortion legal? NO.
Is slavery legal? NO.
Is murder legal? NO.
Is rape legal? NO.
THEN ISLAM IS ILLEGAL!
Rape, slavery, robbery, extortion and murder are never OK!
Everything muslims pretend to see as “holy” is already a crime!
So nobody has a legal right to practice islam anywhere on earth!
John Forbes says
To say that the FAR RIGHT is a serious threat is simply laughable if it were not that the LEFT USES this excuse to shut down free speech & silence any opposition to Multiculturalism !
The BNP & EDL in the UK were and are used by Labor & Conservatives as an excuse to stop any protests about Multiculturalism including silencing people about the MUSLIM GROUP CHILD RAPING Epidemic that is raging in all towns of the UK !
The far RIGHT are a MINISCULE part of the political spectrum & have been used endlessly to silence & the allow things to left alone with disasterous consequences for Children !
MUSLIM CHILD RAPISTS are unfettered all over the UK & MAY & her Government like Blair & His Labor party & Now Corbyn In Opposition silence anyone who raises this !
It is the LEFT & ISLAMIC Followers who are VERY DANGEROUS at all levels,
Sophie Mangal says
Hello. I’m a special investigative correspondent Sophie Mangal. I’m a member of Inside Syria Media Center. sophia.mangal@mail.com
Having a lot of links (with poor Syrians, with some of refugee camps inside Syria and even with people in Aleppo and Syria civil defense organizations) I monitor the situation in Syria and Iraq, Aleppo, Raqqa and Mosul, the Middle East in general and write articles. Also I pay attention to the position of Kurds and Turkey and to fighting ISIS. I have some good sources. Sometimes the information is very interesting, I’m into the problem for a long time in fact. I can share the information in English if you would like so you could publish it and much more people could know about the situation now is going on. Also I compose a summary of armed clashes in Syria every week and try to analyze the changes. I really express concerns about the situation. And I think it would be great if we together could open the eyes of the world. It would be very kind of you if you write me your answer. Here is my latest article. I hope you will find it interesting. Your sincerely, Sophie Mangal. https://en.insidesyriamc.com/ P.S. I saw your site. Very interesting indeed.
First Opinion Poll held in War-torn Syria showed general feeling
Posted on October 1, 2017 by S. Mangal from ISMC in Opinion // 0 Comments
There had been general public opinion poll conducted by independent sociologists and political scientists from all around the world in war-torn Syria. The citizens of the state shared their views on the main events and situation now taking place in the country, their attitude towards other countries acting actively on the fate of the country and also called the main problems of the state.
This analysis led to the identification of the population of Syria’s relationship to the conflict with the participation of various parties, as well as to find out at last where the truth that the media usually publish lies and how big is the falsehood.
It is noticed that the survey was conducted in all the Syrian provinces including those under pressure of war. According to preliminary data, 97% of respondents believe that the country is currently suffering from the crisis caused by corruption, internal weakness of the state and the collusion of other countries against Syria, consequences of which fuel and enhance a humanitarian catastrophe in the entire Middle East.
An interesting fact is that more than 70 percent of the voters support the policy of the head of state, do not believe in the inhumanity of Syrian President Bashar Assad and called the U.S. the main conspirator. The outskirts of Damascus were characterized by only 6 phrases: no housing, no work, monstrously high prices, a lot of street children, poverty, uncontrolled and mindless violence by the militants captured the villages. The residents of the main largest cities in Syria also complained about the destroyed infrastructure of the region, the lack of electricity and water, as well as non-working schools.
The opinion-poll experts pointed out that the overwhelming number of respondents cited themselves patriots of the country. The Syrians stressed that they would not have left their country, even if they had such an opportunity. People are exhausted by the war, so often they expressed the desire to live in a strong state with functioning public institutions.
Donald R Laster Jr says
And this would correspond with what is the proposed Syrian Constitution ( copy at http://dlaster.com/DOCUMENTS/81771718-Qordoba-Translation-of-the-Syrian-Constitution-Modifications-15-2-2012.pdf ) would to that the Islamics such as ISIS would not like – protect people and give people are real say. And before the Assad family took power the blood bath we are seeing today was apparently a regular 4 years or so occurrence. Mr Obama has been working to hard to make Islam supreme and Syria is just one place.
gravenimage says
Thanks for the post, Sophie Mangal. Our main concern about Syria is violent Jihad. You seem to share that concern only sporadically at best, I’m afraid.
https://en.insidesyriamc.com/author/sophiemangal/