Stories matter: the recurring narrative of radical Islamic terror in America (a statistical outlier) makes it nearly impossible to avoid equating “terrorist” with “jihadi suicide bomber” – but the real domestic terror threat is white people, the Dominionists, ethno-nationalists, white separatists, white supremacists and sovereign citizens who target (or infiltrate) cops and blow up buildings.
Um. Vilifying all Muslims for the actions of a tiny minority is indeed despicable, and white supremacists are a real and very dangerous problem, but unless I’m missing something, the majority of terrorist killings in the US in the last 20 years have been carried out by radical Muslims. Claiming that’s not “real” doesn’t do much for anyone’s credibility.
