White supremacist murders in the US more than doubled in 2017
Evidence
The Anti-Defamation League (ADL) has found that the number of white supremacist murders in the United States “more than doubled” in 2017, with far-right extremist groups and white supremacists being responsible for 59 percent of all extremist-related fatalities in the United States (which was nearly a 40 percent increase from the previous year). — Arsalan Iftikhar, Fear of a Muslim Planet_ Global…, 214
Categorization
- XREF: Quantified baseline of US far-right violence for the capstone’s chapter on the American branch of global Islamophobia.
- corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Arsalan Iftikhar, Fear of a Muslim Planet_ Global…, 214
Related
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- Nearly eight in ten US domestic terror attacks in 2018 were white supremacy motivated. (similarity 0.83)
- Counterterrorism targets Muslims while downplaying surging White supremacist violence (similarity 0.82)
- Lax US gun laws let white supremacist hate crimes threaten everyone (similarity 0.82)
- White supremacist violence is analyzed without racial profiling theories. (similarity 0.81)
- The 2020 DHS threat assessment named white supremacists the top domestic threat (similarity 0.81)
- White supremacist attacks against any minority serve as roundabout strikes at Muslims (similarity 0.80)
- White supremacist terror was overlooked as a global threat because of perpetrators’ racial identity (similarity 0.79)
- The hate driving white-supremacist terrorism is not personal but abstract. (similarity 0.78)