In reality, there is a far greater demand for “right-wing extremism” than there is a supply, in order to justify the favored narrative of the political and media elites. As the British Colonel Richard Kemp said recently: “The authorities know full well that the far-right extremism is not a major threat in the UK.” The same thing is true in the US. Kemp’s explanation for this also applies to the US: “The reason that it is often spoken about and discussed is that is because it’s a way of appeasing the sort of people that do want to damage the UK, like Islamic terrorists and to a lesser extent the hard left. Obviously we have seen far-right people doing some terrible things, but it’s not any way comparable to Islamic jihad or similar to that. There is a pretence put up that it is. The authorities know it isn’t and I am concerned that because they have this narrative in Government far-right extremism is a danger resources are diverted to it when they shouldn’t be.”
The Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS), which is responsible for this spurious study, in 2018 warned that the US would never defeat jihadis without giving them vast amounts of money and political power
“‘Escalating’ far-right violence in U.S. to pose greatest terrorist threat: experts,” by David Lao, Global News, June 27, 2020:
Far-right extremism is by far the most common ideology behind terrorist incidents in the United States, according to a new analysis
In a report released last week, the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) analyzed 25 years of domestic terrorism incidents, finding that “right-wing attacks and plots account for the majority of all terrorist incidents in the United States since 1994,” outpacing terrorist acts by all other sources such as “far-left networks and individuals inspired by the Islamic State and al-Qaeda.”
Furthermore, the report found that occurrences of these right-wing attacks have since grown significantly in the past six years, with far-right extremists perpetrating two-thirds of attacks and plots in 2019, and 90 per cent of all incidents between Jan. 1 and May 8 in 2020.
“One of the most concerning is the 2020 U.S. presidential election, before and after which extremists may resort to violence, depending on the outcome of the election,” the report stated….
A new study from London-based Institute for Strategic Dialogue also found over 6,600 right-wing extremist channels, pages and accounts on social media linked to Canadians. Researchers there said that over 11 million users were reached around the globe via social media platforms from Facebook to Twitter, as well as on fringe social media sites like Gab.
“Canada has a well-established online ecosystem of right-wing extremists who are advancing hatred towards minority groups, who are targeting people who are ultimately trying to make Canada a more divided place,” said Jacob Davey, the lead author on the ISD study.
The findings have since helped identify the part those platforms play in proliferating hate speech and extreme ideologies online, as well as how right-wing extremism in Canada mobilizes or recruits new members.
The U.S. does not yet have a domestic terrorism law place, preventing domestic extremist groups from being designated as terrorist organizations.
The debate on implementing such a law has raised criticism from several sides of the political spectrum regarding how it could be enforced, as well as on the implications it might have on the nation’s First Amendment law — the right to free speech.
“All parts of U.S. society have an important role to play in countering terrorism. Politicians need to encourage greater civility and refrain from incendiary language. Social media companies need to continue sustained efforts to fight hatred and terrorism on their platforms,” reads the closing section of the CSIS report.
“But the struggle will only get more difficult as the United States approaches the November 2020 presidential election — and even in its aftermath. Finally, the U.S. population needs to be more alert to disinformation, double-check their sources of information, and curb incendiary language.”
Ken Greenberg says
When was the last time a saw a right wing protest, attack, or destruction of property. This report sounds totally bogus. It’s usually the Left, and they’re certainly behind the anarchy and violence we’re witnessing now.
Savvy Kafir says
Agreed. It’s totally bogus. 100% pure, undiluted BS. But many people on the left probably believe it.
Jon Sobieski says
The CSIS is just another corrupt NGO like the ACLU, or BLM. They pretend they are this brilliant thinktank divining our future and our security risks. In reality they are a propaganda machine with a leftist agenda.
cynthia curran says
It is. In fact, most of the right wing activities like a cop was killed or a black woman was attack were after these protests. In fact I will argue that the left protesting against the police some much open a window for other groups to do their thing. I agree with you that the left is growing much faster than the right.
cynthia curran says
The George Floyd protests upen a window for other groups to do their thing. In fact some studies show the far right groups dropping 50 percent in Canada and the US while the far left increase 200 percent. A lot of times the right wing groups which have lost a lot of members are involved with about 10 different groups.
curious george says
The issue is never the issue
https://www.wnd.com/2020/06/issue-never-issue/
revereridesagain says
Back in 2010 the Left went into orchestrated panic mode over the new Tea Party protests, which couldn’t possibly have been better organized or more peaceful and respectful of the protection given to us by police. The same happened around the brilliant NYC rallies against the Ground Zero Triumphal Mosque organized by Robert, Pam Geller, and others, which were also models of well-run demonstrations. No violence, rioting, or attacks on property unless it came from the other side.
The Left has to keep creating its various brands of Two-Minute-Hate for the Woke Antifa and BLM Groupies to focus on. “Far-Right-Extremism” is merely the title of one of their favorite recipes.
gravenimage says
Yes–I remember the hysteria over the Tea Party–usually just nice middle-of-the-road Conservative late middle-aged couples wearing silly hats. The Leftist rhetoric over this was ridiculous.
Does anyone remember the show “The Newsroom”? The show’s “hero” referred to the peaceful Tea Party as the “American Taliban”.
revereridesagain says
I remember our first rally in Boston, on the Common in front of the State House. I overheard the police talking among themselves about how dangerous we might be, and how to handle any violence. By the end of the large, totally peaceful demonstration they were cheerfully escorting us safely out of the area — there were some hostile leftist hecklers around — to many expressions of thanks for their help.
Probably the last time they’re going to have seen that in Boston for a good long while.
gravenimage says
Thanks for that account, revereridesagain.
libertyORdeath says
If you really want far right extremism to become as big a problem as they claim it is, then “giving them (jihadists) vast amounts of money and political power” is certainly a great way to do it. When you paint a culture or race with a broad brush as the left loves to do you will inevitably push some further towards extremist groups and ideologies. When people feel threatened some will react with violence and hate…this is exactly what the left and their islamic jihadi allies want, then the real issues of corruption, terrorism, illegal immigration, rioting and the destruction of our heritage can be easily swept under the rug.
Savvy Kafir says
That sounds about right.
Rob R (Brit stuck in Britainistan) says
After all, we know it was “White supremacists” who shot up Charlie Hebdo, killed 130 people at the Bataclan theatre, etc… AND they also ran over people on bridges in London multiple times… we all know US is next!
Westman says
And it must be far-right extremists who are defacing and destroying statues, looting, and setting fires in the EU and US. Then again, there are those “far-right” people who burn a 1,000 or so cars every New Year celebration in France. It’s a far-right invasion….
gravenimage says
+1
cynthia curran says
Really, the biggest murder was almost done by Antifa in Washington state last year. William Van Sporsen could have killed 1,400 people if the police didn’t shoot him at the Washington facility. He was a member of the John Brown Club In fact in Europe, the left wing groups have done 10 times the property damage even if they killed less people. In fact, the Washington Post lied that Antifa was not involved and it was far right groups in the George Floyd protests. Most of the so-called right wing activities happen after the George Floyd protest like explosives in Las Vegas brought by Banagloo-Hawaiin shirt boys was after the protest. This is why you have to take the report with a grain of salt.https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/this-is-not-seattle-oklahoma-protesters-hit-with-terrorism-charges Washington Examiner report of Antifa, Communist, and other left wing groups at the rallies.
Rarely says
So who was worse? Hitler or Stalin?
deavman says
Ideologically, Hitler. In actual death totals, Stalin.
Wellington says
Respectfully disagree. Marxism and Nazism are both totalitarian ideologies and both destroy liberty, both create a political police and both insure a high death count. In one respect, Marxism is even worse than Nazism (and God knows Nazism is bad enough) and that is because Far Left ideologies very much tend to destroy an economy while Far Right ideologies (and Nazism was pure Far Right after the Night of the Long Knives in June of 1934) by way of some kind of crony capitalism don’t harm an economy nearly as much.
But both Nazism and Marxism are equally bad and equally evil. They single out a “them” for second-class status or death. Nazism did it with certain ethnic groups, especially Jews, and Marxism does it with socio-economic groups, i.e., the upper and middle classes. Islam, of course, does it with non-Muslims. All three are terrible and I think it too academic an exercise to get into which one is more terrible than the other. Terrible is terrible.
James Lincoln says
Wellington says,
“Far Left ideologies very much tend to destroy an economy while Far Right ideologies …don’t harm an economy nearly as much.”
Interesting point. The Nazis were very technologically advanced having produced the Messerschmitt Me 262 – the world’s first operational jet-powered fighter aircraft.
Captured Me 262s ultimately influenced the designs of post-war aircraft such as the North American F-86 Sabre.
peter says
Nothing can beat Islam in terrorism and anti-humanity . Mohamed and Islam will win hands down . Anti-humanity runs like a watermark throughout Koran . There is no contest !
gravenimage says
Hitler and Stalin were both horrifying.
Hank Mansfield says
Report breaks ‘extremism’ into 4 categories. It mentions a KKK member driving into a mob of protesters blocking a road and 3 ‘boogaloo bois’ members arrested at a demonstration for inciting violence as examples of right-wing terrorism.
Since left-wing, religious and ethnonationalist groups tend to be larger and more cohesive than the ‘lone wolf’ terrorists of the right-wing and one has to search media to find out much about them, it seems to me that definitions have been played with to get the desired result.
A guy in a car being surrounded by an angry mob and flooring the gas pedal is a right-wing terrorist if he’s white and the person he hits isn’t? What about a father in the UK who finds out his daughter fell in with a grooming gang, goes to the cops who do zilch and then takes steps of his own?
truthout says
You must be talking about Charlottesville aka c”ville. They also like to complain about those who own weapons and believe in the second amendment too .What is totally hilarious .Second amendment rights groups had a legal rally at the capitol. There was only one arrest .It was minor and not even connected .What a beautiful sight to behold. Back to cville .Both the driver and the one hit were both white .That is lost though conveniently., Its all smoke and mirrors and more brainwashing by the leftist media.
The father has every right to protect his daughter.Somehow the UK citizens have to get control back.
Hank Mansfield says
No, I was referring to the article presented here. A man with supposed KKK affiliations drove into protesters recently.
In fact, since these George Floyd protests began I remember reading reports from Philadelphia of people being pulled out of cars, assaulted and even raped. Then there are numerous instances of mobs blocking traffic and attacking drivers.
Recent events suggest a fifth category for terrorism – anarchist/opportunist.
truthout says
Sorry didn’t catch that .Trying to hard to keep up with what is happening locally as well as my own problems .For what its worth I can tell you that the former capitol of the south isn’t experiencing racial problems with the natives locals .They have been bussed in .Manufactured crisis .People of every race and ethnicity are avoiding the mayhem the best we can .Keeping our powder dry till the time is right
James1999 says
A pro Trump Jewish-Black-Latino Girl released an ANTI ANTIFA BOOK.
https://twitter.com/fightwingdotcom/status/1272892455038435332
Shes fighting long time against the Reds.Support her.
gravenimage says
Thanks for the link, James.
Wellington says
There is also poisoning or destruction of the mind, which is a kind of terrorism in and of itself, and here the Far Right is a miniscule problem compared to the Far Left because there are virtually no Far Right elements in the American educational system while Far Left elements abound in our educational system from the earliest years in the educational ladder up and through graduate school.
Rob R (Brit stuck in Britainistan) says
Yes, very correct and insightful comment. Destruction of the mind is something that has been going on ever since the early 2000s when the leftists started demanding that we suck up to Islam. Killing brain cells should be a capital crime too.
James Lincoln says
Wellington,
To your point about the Far Left’s influence on the American educational system, a recent quote from Tucker Carlson:
“The rest of us were so thrilled that our kids got into Duke that we decided to ignore what Duke was actually teaching them and are continuing to send big checks.”
Makes me glad I went to State U and studied STEM…
https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/tucker-carlson-the-real-reason-mobs-across-the-country-are-tearing-down-american-monuments
Wellington says
I believe, James, Tucker Carlson is my favorite of all commenters and analysts on Fox. My brother feels the same way. There are other good ones but I also always like to hear what Brit Hume has to say—no one shrewder about the political scene than he is. Carlson is a master with words.
And I too am glad I went to a state university (Penn State). As I’ve written before here at JW, some of the most incompetent people I have ever come across have graduated from the so-called elite schools. Lawyers from Ivy League schools are the worst, as I also specifically mentioned previously at JW.
And so again is demonstrated that the conventional wisdom is often dead wrong. One could write an entire history of mankind with the chief premise being how what is accepted as truth by most is actually false, an example in our time being the charge of systemic racism in America—but ever notice no one who makes this charge ever gives any non-faux examples?
gravenimage says
Good points.
And things have gotten worse. I went to Berkeley in the late 1970s to early ’80s, and most of the idiocy was outside of classes save for the “Social Sciences” and Women’s and Ethnic Studies courses. Even the history classes were really excellent–generally objective and rigorous. From all that I have heard, this has changed greatly.
George says
Factcheck.org has no results for right-wing extremists attacks in 2020. so the claim of 90% of terrorist attacks being the result of right-wing extremists in the first half of this year is pure ___________ !!!!!!!!
Wellington says
Telling. Damning and damned contrived too if so.
Kay says
My city is currently being burned by antifa, and it also happened 4 years ago.
There was one crazy man who hated everyone— Jews, Christians, Muslims— and killed someone. No doubt they have labeled him right wing.
Maureen Chaloner says
I would like to know what ‘terrible things’ anyone labelled ‘Far Right’ have done.Like WHAT exactly????Its all a pack of lies….2/3 of ‘attacks’- which ones would that be then specifically? i have NEVER heard such tosh! The media name ordinary citizens who fight back against terrorism, corruption and child sexual exploitation,especially by Muslim men, ‘Right Wing Extremists’. The main stream media are LIARS of megga proportion and have blood on their hands for whipping up hatred between black and white people. As for the ‘establishment’,do NOT get me started! THEY just want to divide and conquer. I also discovered BLM is supported and funded by Soros and the Muslim Brotherhood. So Black people, what about this then for you to think about. Mohammed hated your people and called them ‘raisin heads’. So you get your way and destroy democracy and the rule of law and YOU will be the FIRST the Islamist turn on and kill. After all, Mo was the ‘perfect man’ and Muslims follow is every word and deed. Get it yet????
Wellington says
Your post, Maureen, only reveals what a one-sided (and stupid) trinitarian monster the elites (media, academia and leftist political parties) have erected in the West, going back to one of the most tragic decades in man’s history, the 1960’s (and not helped presently by many moderates and conservatives who essentially know the truth of things but who have no guts).
Of course, this will not be reported by the MSM. They’re too busy thinking that Trump is the problem when, in fact, Trump, even with his faults (he has great street instincts {which is why he won the Presidency in 2016} but not enough pure knowledge), right now is the greatest hope in power form for the West to survive.
Many will miss this about Trump. So many. Including former friends of mine (sorry, but I can put up with stupid only so long and then no more—hence “former friends”—but, on the positive side, I have made many new friends—ah, it’s a trade off and I think a good one).
Well, welcome again to the Age of Nonsense. A stupider age in all of man’s history, and especially when taking into account all the exculpations for Islam and Western Leftism, coupled with all kinds of advantages like computer technology, wonderful indoor plumbing, cars, planes, trains, air-conditioning, radio, television, modern medical treatments (which saved my favorite person of all time, my wife), satellites, et al., exclusively developed by the West, but which is so conveniently overlooked, can only make for an assessment of those who despise the West {and many do—from of course the ever decrepit Islamic world, the forever never-learning Russian world, the robot-like Asian nations which last world, to the extent that it works, is deeply indebted to the West, the sub-Saharan world and the Latin American world, the last two of which keep using the pathetic excuse of Western colonialism serving as their “real” problem, etc.} adds up to, you guessed it, the Age of Nonsense.
And what a damn, Dickensian-like sentence I have just written. Completely inexcusable. I will indulge myself, though, by thinking Dickens himself would approve, at least of the sentence structure if not the “sentiments.” But perhaps I wax too strongly on my writing of the English language. Probably. Yeah, most likely.
OK, that’s all for now. My blood was up because I am so sick of Western Civilization being held to account while no other civilization or society is and even though Western Civilization has done more for mankind overall, even with its faults, than ALL other civilizations combined. A la Luther at Worms in 1521, here I stand, I can do no other.
All right then, I’m done.
gravenimage says
Very small point, Wellington–“triune”, perhaps, rather than “trinitarian”?
Wellington says
With respect as always, gravenimage, aren’t these two words synonyms?
gravenimage says
“Trinitarian” more generally tends to refer to the Christian Trinity.
https://www.lexico.com/en/definition/trinitarian
https://www.lexico.com/en/definition/triune
A minor point, in any case.
gravenimage says
New report claims “far-right extremism” is biggest terror threat in the US
…………………..
This makes *no sense at all*, unless they are calling rude comments on Gab “terrorism” and discounting Jihad attacks like 9/11.
Wellington says
Even assuming, for argument’s sake, gravenimage, this report is correct, it does not take into account that Far Right terrorism is piecemeal and has no funding or backing at large across the world.
By contrast, Islamic terrorism is rooted in the Islamic theological blueprint and has enormous backing worldwide, and only aided all the more by the newest totalitarian ideology to emerge in mankind’s history, i.e., Western Leftism, which has hijacked traditional Western liberalism in sundry ways that Far Right ideologies have in virtually no way hijacked traditional conservatism.
As Dennis Prager, sapient man that he is, has put it, the modern Democratic Party in America has many extremist positions, among them being sanctuary cities, effectively no border control, health care for illegals, free education for illegals through college and graduate school, drives’s licenses for illegals, botched abortion babies still being executed a la Northam, etc. But the Republican Party, deficient though it often is in guts, has NO extremist positions and anyone disagreeing here, well then, point out extremist Republican positions. I aver there are none.
All of which points to something most ominous, to wit, that one of the two major political parties in the most powerful nation on earth has gone over the deep end. And this is why all sensible Democrats who are left in our nation need to leave the Democratic Party and either register as an Independent, a Republican or as an adherent to some other political party which has not lost its collective mind as the Democratic Party most surely has. As I have stated before here at JW, the Democratic Party has to go the way of the Whig Party in the 1850’s.
I write this with no joy, though being the Republican Party member that I am, because I think a strong two-party system is the best of all possible scenarios, not the least reason being that a multi-party system creates an almost certain instability and a one-party system is a prescription for authoritarian, if not dictatorial rule. But the Democratic Party is no longer an ally of the American Republic. It is gone. Long gone. It is now an enemy of America. And all Democrats of old, the Truman, JFK and LBJ type Democrats, who still remain in the Democratic Party MUST realize this and proceed accordingly. It is an imperative of the first dimension–for the very survival of America.
gravenimage says
Also true, Wellington.
James Lincoln says
Wellington,
I’m sure that you’ve heard about this movement:
https://www.walkawaycampaign.com/
Wellington says
Had not heard about it, James, so much thanks for bringing this to my attention.
gravenimage says
Sounds excellent, James. Kudos to Brandon Straka.
Hope this gains some traction.
Incidentally, a good number of my views are traditionally liberal. I only became viewed as “far right” when I dared to oppose Jihad and Shari’ah.