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Joe Stack is a “true American hero”: Facebook groups support domestic terrorist.
“Finally an American man took a stand against our tyrannical government that no longer follows the Constitution,” wrote Emily Walters of Louisville, Ky.
One IRS worker was killed and 13 injured when stack flew a small plane into an IRS building in Austin last week.
Is there a particular reason why the usual suspects aren’t trumpeting this incident as terrorism? Maybe the arrested men are of the wrong ethnicity?
Two men were arrested when police found a pipe bomb, two shotguns, bomb-making materials, ammunition, a can of propane and SWAT costumes in their car Tuesday night in New Haven, Conn.
So far the police don’t have a clear sense of what the pair were planning to do, New Haven Police spokesman Officer Joe Avery told TPM.
“They’re not talking much,” Avery said.
The Solas Foundation is attempting to address muslim extremism in the UK.
August 9, 2009
Reclaiming Islam
Unveiling a bold new plan to tackle the radicalism that was born in Bosnia and culminated in a shocking attack on Glasgow Airport
Essay Of The Week By Azeem IbrahimTHE DAWN of the 21st century has not been a quiet one. Over the past decade, as we have become familiar with the threat posed by terrorism and extremism, we have had to search for ways of combating these forces. So what have we learned? There is, it seems, bad news and good news. The bad news is that there is only so much you can do to cure terrorism with wars, intelligence, policing and high-tech gadgets – in other words, most of the methods on which we have traditionally relied. The good news is that you can begin to prevent it, using methods that are cheap, simple, and not reliant upon government agencies. The best news of all is that this is best done from the grassroots up, which means that an entrepreneur like me can help.
Later this month, my friends and I will establish a new Islamic educational organisation. The Solas Foundation will, among other things, teach young people about Islam in its proper context. It will provide organisations with advice on Islamic law and practice, and it will begin to strengthen the Muslim community. Ultimately, it will make Scotland and Britain safer.
How, you might ask, could Islamic education possibly help to improve the security of all of us, Muslim and non-Muslim alike?
The answer and the rest of the article here.
“Die for God. Die for the right reasons and its OK.”
Chris Hedges has produced a half-hour documentary on angry white Americans who are armed and ready for another ‘revolutionary war,’ many of them military veterans. Though this is clearly a right-wing movement (anti-tax, anti-immigration, anti-Obama) they make some very leftist criticisms of the economy and the ‘military-industrial complex’ – as well as offering up some very sympathetic thoughts and even affinities for the insurgents in Afghanistan and Iraq.
Throughout the documentary, the radio voice of conspiracy that captures the documentary subjects’ concerns is Alex Jones, recently referenced on Talk Islam here and here.
HIstory of recent right-wing terrorist attacks in the US:
* Jim D. Adkisson murders two church members in a liberal Unitarian Universalist Church in Tennessee on July 27, 2008. “It appears that what brought him to this horrible event was his lack of being able to obtain a job, his frustration over that, and his stated hatred for the liberal movement.”
* Richard Poplawski guns down three Pittsburgh police officers on April 4, 2009. Poplawski, a white supremacist, believes the government is going to take away his guns.
(update) * Joshua Cartwright killed two sheriff’s deputies in Florida on April 25, 2009. Cartwright’s wife said her husband “believed that the US Government was conspiring against him. She said he had been severely disturbed that Barack Obama had been elected President.”
* Scott Roeder slays abortion provider George Tiller in his church May 31, 2009.
* James W. von Brunn, a white supremacist, opens fire today at the Holocaust museum, killing a guard.
Presciently, Obama’s DHS issued a report in April warning of increased right-wing extremism. Conservatives loudly panned the report, and got all hissy and indignant that their followers were being persecuted.
Fox News and its recently lauded “alternative reality” owns a large chunk of responsibility for the upsurge in violence.
As long as Fox News and the Noise Machine refuse to back off the incendiary language that they’re actively mainstreaming, the political violence, visible just months into Obama’s historic first term, may have only begun.
Blogger and Internet Radio Host Hal Turner encouraged Catholics to make Connecticut legislators “obey the constitution or die”, after two state legislators introduced a bill that would have changed how the Catholic Church had to be governed in the state.
He has been arrested and faces charges for incitement.
Muslims aren’t to blame for that Arkansas shooting. It’s the blogs and MSNBC:
LAURA INGRAHAM: Are we now going to look at the websites that he frequented to see if he was on some of the crazy left-wing anti-war websites, Win Without War, George Soros-funded websites, DailyKos, all the crazies. … The way they are reporting on the George Tiller murder, all of talk radio was responsible for that. … Did he frequent MSNBC, did he like to watch it? [...]
sigh.. man named Muhammad kills a US soldier in Arkansas.
The high rate of conversion to Islam in American prisons means that the rate of crimes committed by muslims is going to increase. This is simply crime committed by criminals, but it will be spun as the Grand Jihad by the usual suspects.
UPDATE: a definition of terrorism upon which we can all agree.
Internet “chatter” among domestic right-wing extremists in the US against Obama, foriegners, leftists, liberals, Democrats, academics, journalists, etc. is becoming more strident and more violent. A sample:
We photographed all of the houses with Obama signs. We know who they are. Tories didn’t fair too well in New England. Ended up in Canada. Houses ended up as huge emitters of carbon…
While not mentioned specifically in any of the sampled quotes, I’m sure Muslims make the list.
Some fear, as in many other countries, that the economic crisis will drive new outbursts of violence from these population groups. And to think, the FBI is targeting Muslims with agent provacateur infiltrators when all this right-wing terrorist “chatter” is going on…