Domestic threat reports receive far less preemptive action than Muslim extremism warnings

Evidence

FBI Report Is Said to Have Warned of Plans for Violence at the Capitol,” New York Times, January 12, 2021, https://www.nytimes​ .com/live/2021/01/12/us/capitol-riot-trump. (Note that the report was issued just one day before the siege, in stark contrast to the multi-year sting operations targeting Muslims who post ISIS or Al-Qaeda extremist content on the internet). — Sahar F. Aziz, The Racial Muslim, 1560

Categorization

  • XREF: Connects to broader literature on differential policing of Muslim vs white domestic extremism, and the FBI’s sting-op strategy described elsewhere in counterterrorism scholarship.
  • SEED: Potential article: how the FBI’s own January warning about the Capitol siege was ignored while multi-year Muslim sting operations proceed on far thinner evidence.