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Mead posted...

Its almost like radical Islam has for several years been a much smaller threat compared to radical domestic terrorists

37 Islamic terror attacks in 2020, literally hundreds killed vs ill defined (politically exploitable) far right terror with a death total of 5, Antifa conflicts and BLM have a much higher kill count but aren't considered terrorists because reasons.

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darkknight109 posted...

Pulse Nightclub was just one guy being an asshole; as near as anyone can tell, it was a legit radical Islam zealot.

He bragged about being part of Al Qaeda, ISIS, and Hamas to his co-workers, seemingly in a bid to sound tough. If you know anything about your Islamic extremists, you know that all three of those groups hate each others' guts and, at the time the shooting happened, were busy murdering the fuck out of each other in Syria and Iraq.

But to the actual point of the topic, right-wing extremists and gun nuts have been doing a lot more damage in the last few years, so they're getting a lot more of the attention. Radical Islam was always a boogeyman that was more flash than actual substance, at least in the West; the death toll from right-wing extremists has been higher every year this century except for 2001.

Right wing extremists didn't spend 8 months burning down entire cities because of a fentanyl overdose.

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Ferarri619 posted...

After the Pulse Nightclub shooting, Paris bombing, Boston bombing etc. that whole topic was all the rage.
Also rarely hear about Islam-extremist related violence too.
Call me crazy but maybe since people stopped giving it so much attention, the mass murder went down?

There's constant attacks in many countries, we just stopped giving it the attention it deserves because the west is importing them by the million and we are trying to lower racial tensions.

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Praise The Sun - DDDA Pawn Ciri (Ranger)
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