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right-wing terrorism: a US census worker was found hanged, with the word “FED” across his chest, in Kentucky.
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Neo Nazi who talked of ‘dead Pakis’ jailed for terror plot.
A neo-Nazi who planned a terrorism campaign against ‘non-British’ was found guilty of terrorism and seven offences under the Explosives Act on July 15. Neil Lewington, 43, who once told a woman “the only good Paki was a dead Paki” had been on the verge of carrying out his murderous mission in the name of white supremacy when he was caught by chance carrying two bombs on a train.
The racist, who stored bomb-making items in his bedroom wanted to emulate his idols including London nail bomber David Copeland and Oklahoma bomber Timothy McVeigh.
Calling himself the Waffen SS UK, he designed shrapnel bombs which he planned to hurl into the homes of Asian families.
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300 weapons and 80 bombs: UK media and authorities collude to stifle story about right-wing extremist threat to mosques and Muslims.
In a story that is shrouded in secrecy Counter Terrorism Units (CTU) across the UK have questioned 32 people and carried out property searches at 36 addresses leading to one of the largest seizures of arsenal since the IRA in the 1990’s.
The investigation revealed 300 weapons and 80 bombs, increasing the threat of extreme right attacks on Mosques and Muslim communities. With the exception of two arrests made in May, Leed’s CTU has categorically refused to reveal to The Muslim News further information on the raids and charges brought against the individuals which resulted in 14 arrests.
….Head of Scotland Yard’s Violent Crime Directorate, Commander Shaun Sawyer, speaking at a meeting arranged by the Muslim Safety Forum, spoke of the threats emerging from the far right: “I fear that they will have a spectacular… they will carry out an attack that will lead to a loss of life or injury to a community somewhere. They’re not choosy about which community.”
Muslim Safety Forum Trustee, Shamiul Joarder, told The Muslim News that the reluctance to report on the threat posed by far-right extremism was part of “a concentrated effort by the mainstream media to ensure terms such as terrorist and the fear that results from this are reserved only for Muslims. We welcome Commander Sawyer’s attention towards the rise of the far right but we must ensure that the police now deal with all far right activity robustly otherwise the community will rightly observe double standards are being applied again.”
This is not the first time that actions related to terrorism, defined as violent acts against civilians to achieve a ideological aim, carried out by individuals outside of the Muslim community have been dealt with far less severity from our police forces, courts and mainstream media.
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One reason Muslims need their own civil rights organizations is that traditional civil rights groups often ignore anti-Muslim, anti-South Asian and anti-Arab attacks in their reports, thereby obscuring the real extent of the problem.
The Southern Poverty Law Center, a prominent civil rights and anti-hate organization, has produced a report, “Terror from the Right: 75 plots, conspiracies and racist rampages since Oklahoma City.” Of the 75 listed only one involved attacks on Muslims (St. Petersberg, FL, 2002). It’s not credible that in the eight years since September 11th and the Islamophobic swell of fear and hatred it prompted, that only one attack could have made the cut. Here’s how SPLC describes its list:
What follows is a detailed listing of major terrorist plots and racist rampages that have emerged from the American radical right in the years since Oklahoma City. These have included plans to bomb government buildings, banks, refineries, utilities, clinics, synagogues, mosques, memorials and bridges; to assassinate police officers, judges, politicians, civil rights figures and others; to rob banks, armored cars and other criminals; and to amass illegal machine guns, missiles, explosives and biological and chemical weapons. Each of these plots aimed to make changes in America through the use of political violence. Most contemplated the deaths of large numbers of people — in one case, as many as 30,000, or 10 times the number murdered on Sept. 11, 2001.
Neither the recent suspicious death of an imam in Southern California nor the assault on a Muslim woman in Seattle are mentioned anywhere on the site.
Below the jump, a list of eight acts of violence perpetrated against Muslims (or people mistaken as Muslims) since September 11th, 2001, that prompted federal prosecution as reported by the US Department of Justice, Civil Rights Division, only one of which appears on the SPLC list:
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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.
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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…
