The new “White Man’s Burden.” My article in PJ Media:
The famously winsome and charming Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.), in a 2018 interview that recently resurfaced, fed the fires of the “white supremacist terror” hysteria when she asserted that “our country [no, not Somalia] should be more fearful of white men across our country because they are actually causing most of the deaths within this country.” She also offered a ready solution: “Profiling, monitoring, and creating policies to fight the radicalization of white men.” Amid a general clamor on the Left over “white supremacist terrorism,” this is even crazier than most claims, as commonplace as it is. But the reality is that the idea that there is a massive terror threat from “white supremacists,” dwarfing the jihad threat, isn’t remotely true.
As I noted back in November 2018 when CNN’s intrepid journalist Don Lemon made the same claim, it originated with an April 2017 Government Accountability Office (GAO) study that counted 106 people killed in 62 attacks by “far-right violent extremists,” as compared to 119 people killed in 23 attacks by “radical Islamist violent extremists.”
That’s right: 62 attacks by “far-right violent extremists,” as opposed to only 23 attacks by “radical Islamist violent extremists.” A slightly larger number of people were killed in the jihad attacks, but there were so many more “far-right” attacks that this establishes conclusively that America has a much bigger problem with the “far-right” than with jihadis. Doesn’t it?
It doesn’t. One major problem with the Government Accountability Office study leaps out from page 6 of its report, where you will see that the count of fatalities committed by “far right wing extremists” and “radical Islamist extremists” begins on September 12, 2001. Why was that day chosen? Why not start the study at the beginning of a year, or of this century?
There is much more. Read the rest here.
mortimer says
The study upon which Omar’s comment is based is misleading. The study begins one day after 9/11, so it’s a complete CHEAT and a hot, steaming pile of disinformation for propaganda purposes.
Anyone who uses the study is without ethics.
The main reason Islamic terrorism has reduced in the US is because of the extraordinary vigilance of Homeland Security and all police forces since 9/11. Islamic terrorists have been blocked from further catastrophic attacks … though many have apprehended trying to do so.
HUMBUG and FLIM-FLAM.
gravenimage says
And it is bs even if 9/11 is *not* taken into account. But as you note, there is no reason *not* to count it–it is not as though it fell on a ’round date’–there would be nothing notable about 9/11/2001 if it were not for the horrific terror attack on that day.
Rarely says
When you have two fatal cancers you take care to treat them both. True that one may require more urgent immediate attention but you can’t afford to ignore the other.
Since Jihad is somewhat less discriminate than White Supremacism, which targets specific groups, it is more likely to have more victims per attack. But, if you are a member of one of the groups targeted by the White Supremacists you might find a discussion on “which is worse?” to be quite irrelevant.
mortimer says
Muslims are required by the doctrine AL WALAA WAL BARAA to hate and show hostility towards 80% of all humanity.
Rarely says
Mortimer.
Neo-Nazis and other violent White Supremacists may only obligate themselves to go after 20% of the population but that is little comfort to the 20%.
gordon says
Out of curiosity, how many violent white supremacists do you actually know? I’m not saying they aren’t around but I very much doubt they constitute a number we should be concerned about at least in western countries such as the U.S. or Britain.
b.a. freeman says
what gordon said, Rarely.
i, too, hate white supremacism, along with every other form of blind hatred. going back to your analogy of cancers, if one of the 2 cancers is prostate cancer (in a man), there may not be too much to worry about; approximately 80% of all elderly males die *with* it, but not *because* of it. in a similar fashion, it is not too likely that white supremacists have a world-wide organization, or more apropos to the analogy, a belief system common to *all* white supremacists, with very little variation present, or even allowed, by them. this is the concept to which mr. spencer was alluding when he said “… there is a global network of Islamic jihadis … [but] there is no global network of right-wing extremists…” along the same lines, there *IS* a basic outline of a plan for the pirate cult to conquer all of humanity: the quran, the kutub alsittah, and the sira. he who would say that islam is safe had better check for himself and not just take the local imam’s word for it.
Rarely says
OK. Some points.
#1.In NO WAY WHATSOEVER am I defending ilhan omar or her position. She does not seem to be restricting herself to White Supremacists and Neo-Nazis but to white men as a group.
#2. It is possible to “control” the number of Jihadists in our countries (I live in Canada) by vetting immigration but there appears to be no imminent danger of being “invaded” by Neo-Nazi types.
#3. These “Neo-Nazi” types are NOT a figment of someone’s imagination. In the past few days our local newspaper (don’t get carried away with a diatribe against the MSM) revealed a hard-nosed Neo-Nazi organization recruiter, a demolition expert, as a lance corporal in the local military reserve. Names were named. They ARE here, they are malicious, they have expertise and they are VERY dangerous.
Should we leave them alone and spend all our time and resources on Jihadists and hope the Neo-Nazis will take them out for us?
Like it or not — BOTH have to be dealt with.
Rarely says
BTW. I do acknowledge that this is JIHAD Watch and not Neo-Nazi Watch so I’m not criticizing the site. But we shouldn’t be blinded by that omission — it’s simply not the job of JW to deal with it.
gravenimage says
Rarely, Jihadists are not indiscriminate in their targets–they typically go after Infidel or “other sect” Muslims.
And your belief that no one is concerned about violence when committed by white supremacists is clearly not the case.
Ilhan Omar’s purpose here, of course, is to try to deflect attention away from Jihad terror–for reasons that should be quite obvious.
Rarely says
GI.
I agree with you almost 100%. They aren’t really all that discriminate — it’s hard to be when flying a plane into a building or planting a bomb at the finish line of a Marathon.
Sure Omar is trying to change the narrative. Being pro-Jihad what other weapon does she have? It might even get her some Afro-American support. If I was a “conspiracy theorist” I’d start the rumour that the Jihad movement is behind the White Supremacist groups in order to take some of the heat off themselves.
All that still doesn’t make these Neo-Nazi types any more palatable or less dangerous.
LB says
Are you aware that there have been over 30,000 jihad attacks, with body counts in hundreds of thousands (if not over a million) WORLDWIDE since 9/11, right? So tell me, how many people were killed by white supremacists in that same time period worldwide? Because if the number is not at least over 10,000 (which is still around 1% of victims of islamic jihad) then there is no discussion or comparison — white supremacists are in no shape or form a threat when compared to muslim jihadis.
Not saying that white supremacists don’t exist, nor that they are not harming anybody, but they simply can’t compare to muslims. So if I were to choose between those two cancers, as you put it, I’d rather have a few non-white people die in the West, then having thousands of non-muslims massacred worldwide, every year. Both are evil, but one is an extremely more benign form of cancer than the other. Only an absolute hypocrite would claim otherwise.
gravenimage says
Good posts, Rarely and LB.
jarmanray says
Mr. Spencer is correct about the number of lives saved through the diligent work of law enforcement at all levels. Those spewing hatred on a daily basis should be grateful for if only a few of the plots by Islamists were successful, I bet that support for the President’s endeavor to protect the nation from jihadists entering from Syria and Yemen would be exceedingly high and not only would the Muslim Brotherhood be placed on the terrorist list, CAIR would also be entered.
mortimer says
Thank you, police forces and Homeland Security for keeping us so safe. You are our heroes.
Liz says
+1
gravenimage says
Hear, hear!
CRUSADER says
…grateful for if only a few of the plots by Islamists were successful…
YET, SOOOOO MANY Islamist plots and strategies are succeeding!
Stealth Jihad has a high success rate! It is under radar, mostly, or
given cover by RINOs, Libtards, Lamestream Media, Academia…and even
by many (enough of them) in DOD and among LEO and DOJ.
Let’s not fool ourselves by soothing ourselves about this in thinking LEO and DHS
has it all covered….they don’t !
Enormous damage was down by GWB and MObama administrations and the clueless congress.
mortimer says
The Leftards love telling lies and love Islamic lies the most. They never criticize a Muslim liar.
If the facts were on your side, Leftards, you and your allies wouldn’t have to lie.
Islam’s jihad has produced over 150,000 killed and perhaps 500,000 wounded since 9/11 in over 35,000 jihad attacks. That’s between 3 to 10 jihad attacks every day.
No other terrorist category has so many attacks or fatalities.
Liz says
For her, yes; as she herself is a jihadi, so they would not be a threat to her. But for America, this is nothing but another bold outright race baiting lie.
What color are jihadis?
Carolyne says
Some Muslim men are white men. I agree that those men are a very great threat.
gravenimage says
+1
Henry Mansfield says
I’m a white man that signed up for training as a US Army paratrooper in the immediate aftermath of 9-11-01.
I was a Gifted student that skipped 2 grades, never was taught just what a complete POS Islam really was in all the years of public education I received.
Figured it out on my own after 9-11-01.
At any time since coming home I could have wiped a thousand Muslims off the face of the Earth, yet I haven’t done so yet.
As a White/ Native American cross-breed I look at Muslims and their natural allies on the political Left and wish them the natural results of their philosophies.
Starvation and slow deaths…
gravenimage says
Thank you, Henry.
Angemon says
I’m certain her countrymen and countrywomen in Somalia being murdered and raped by Al-Shabaab feel much, much safer now that they know “white men” are the bigger threat… Sure, Al-Shabaab is making their lives a living hell, but at least they’re not “white men”…
gravenimage says
Good point.
FYI says
Should we tell ilhan omar?
The man who was her “prophet”,who said women have a “deficiency of the mind”{the reason given as to why the koran insists a muslimas testimony is HALF that of a man k2:282}?
The owner,buyer and seller of black African slaves{Sahih Muslim 3901}?
muhammed
Is depicted as A WHITE man…..
in fact his whiteness is strenuously emphasised.
muhammed’s sunnah,THAT WHITE arab man, the one omar is obliged to follow?.
Now ..he and his sunnah are definitely a danger to civilization as are those like the antisemitic,antichristian,racist omar who follow him.
As usual Irony{like Logic} is lost on omar.
She’s in the violently intolerant religion of….. “peace”.
Her god al Lah thinks she is only worth HALF a muslim male.k2:282
She has a “deficiency” of the mind” in muhammed’s eyes and yet wears a hijab in honor of her misogynistic,chauvinistic bigot of a god,a god who hates women.
And she gives out about white people despite the fact that her “prophet” muhammmed was apparently the WHITEST MAN THAT EVER LIVED……
You Tube
Acts17Apologetics
muhammed:the white prophet with black slaves(David Wood)
elee says
Did any white men vote her into office? Will any white men vote to re-elect her? Why?
gravenimage says
I’m sure they did–“politically correct” morons in deep denial of what Omar stands for.
Hopefully they–and the rest of her non-Muslim constituency–will get a clue and vote her out of office next election. Her approval numbers are as low as we have ever seen.
Gina says
Jihadis are definitely a bigger threat. One imam said that their goal was to go door-to-door throughout the world and make sure that everyone was Muslim and to kill or convert everyone else. And since they will kill each other for not being Muslim enough, and a lot of people won’t convert, they’re planning on killing a bunch of people. Can’t we send them all to one country so they can practice their “religion of peace” and leave the rest of us alone? Islam is incompatible with Western Civilization.
b.a. freeman says
good point, Gina, but i would go further and say that islam is incompatible with humanity. after all, thinking is dangerous for a muslim, as it may cause him to commit blasphemy or apostasy.
jayell says
“62 attacks by “far-right violent extremists,” as opposed to only 23 attacks by “radical Islamist violent extremists.”…” That’s about three times the number of ‘far right’ (sic) extremist attacks as opposed to islamists ones. Would I be correct to assume that the that these ‘far right extremists’ come from a roughly 75-80% ‘indigenous’ sector of the US population as opposed to the ‘islamists’ who come from a roughly 2-3% islamic sector? Which means that, pro rata, about 25% of the total number of these attacks are coming from an average 2.5% (halfway between 2-3%) sector of the population as opposed to the remaining 75% of attacks coming from an average 77.5% (halfway between 75-80%) sector. Which in turn means that, pro rata, the members of islamic sector would be approximately 1,000% more likely to commit an attack than the so-called ‘far right’. Even if my estimate of the population proportions are not quite accurate, it would still look pretty appalling for the islamic sector.
Stang says
Nary a pep about white supremacy for decades till the left needed to something else to pin on trump incase the Russian collusion lies didn’t work out..
Rarely says
The Left did not invent the White Supremacist, KKK, Neo-Nazi crowd.
gravenimage says
Ilhan Omar Falsely Claims That ‘White Men’ Are Greater Threat Than Jihadis
That’s right: 62 attacks by “far-right violent extremists,” as opposed to only 23 attacks by “radical Islamist violent extremists.” A slightly larger number of people were killed in the jihad attacks, but there were so many more “far-right” attacks that this establishes conclusively that America has a much bigger problem with the “far-right” than with jihadis. Doesn’t it?
It doesn’t
……………………
No, it doesn’t–and for a number of reasons. Firstly, as noted, there were more deaths from Islamic attacks, which instantly renders this absurd–and this is even without factoring in the horrific 9/11 attacks.
Then, the idea that every action by a white person is ipso facto a “far right” attack is absurd. What about the Dayton shootings, which were perpetrated by a leftist supporter of Democratic candidate Elizabeth Warren? Nothing “far right” about this, despite it often being so characterized,
Then–perhaps most salient of all–there is the fact that white people make up a majority of Americans of almost three-quarters of the population, whereas Muslims in toto make up less than 1%.
This means that Muslims are at least *72 times* more likely to be violent than are white men.
Trick_or_Treat says
This woman (not to mention her motley stablemates) is a rampaging idiot. An hysterical loudmouthed ‘hypervictim’ SJW. In her case, at least, Mr Mo is proven absolutely correct, she has a ‘deficiency of the mind’ – a big one. I am hoping to God that many (if not most) Americans who helped to put her (and her stablemates) where she is now, have inceasingly been reviewing their ballot choice and are feeling perhaps a little annoyed, and embarrassed, and even pissed off with themselves patriotically (even if it privately and would never ever admit it openly). Hopefully there will many more of them by the time the doors of the federal polling booths open come your next national election. Amen.
CRUSADER says
Jay Smith in the role of women in Islam
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=5NIT8met4vY
CRUSADER says
Role of Women in Islam and Christianity (Jay Smith)
Horseman says
So tired of this woman. Unbelievable that such a lying and hateful person was elected to congress.
OLD GUY says
I’am a white man she needs to worry about, because I will speak out against what she stands for. She is anti American and verging on being a traitor to this country. Close our borders to non Christian muslims who practice islam the religion of the devil.
Brian Hoff says
She is correct all mass murder where all white supremacists not jihadist.
Angemon says
“She is correct all mass murder where all white supremacists not jihadist.”
Nope. Far from it. It was not white men driving the trucks of peace. Major Hassan? Not white. Omar Matee? Syed Farook and Tashfeen Malik? Not white. Seung-Hui Cho? Not white. Mass felony shootings? Blacks more than double whites.
Do you need me to go on?
gravenimage says
“Brian Hoff”–really, “DefenderofIslam”–wrote:
She is correct all mass murder where all white supremacists not jihadist.
…………………
So 9/11 wasn’t mass murder? How about the Ft. Hood massacre? The San Bernardino holiday party slaughter? The Orlando killings–which are the worst mass shooting in American history? Or how about the Boston Marathon Bombings?
This last *was* white people–but not white supremacists, but white Chechnyan Muslims.
I can go on–there are many, many more Jihad terror attacks.