White supremacist terror was overlooked as a global threat because of perpetrators’ racial identity

Evidence

To white supremacists, alt-right and old, Muslim communities represented, in Tarrant’s words, “white genocide.” Their very presence in the United States, for Trump and his racial War on Terror, signaled the “end of white Christian America,” and their very presence in Australia and New Zealand was an offense. According to law professor Darin Johnson, “White supremacist terrorism is a rising threat that has been overlooked by national security authorities as a global threat” largely because of the racial identity of the actors and the invisibility and presumption of individuality it garners them. Historian Kathleen Belew traces the origins of the “modern white supremacist movement” in the United States that spawned the likes of Dylann Roof, Stephen Paddock, and Buffalo mass killer Peyton Gendron to the 1960s, when it flourished in the shadows as governments profiled and pursued immigrants, ethnic minorities, and most notably, Muslims. A globalized world, fused together by digital media and social media platforms, connected the American white supremacist movement and counterpart groups in Europe, Australia, and New Zealand; these groups interact frequently, form transnational bonds and organizations, and march toward similar goals. — Khaled A. Beydoun, The New Crusades_ Islamophobia and the…, 922

Categorization

• XREF: Links the US, Europe, Australia, and NZ white supremacist movements into one networked condition — exactly the global-synthesis thread the reader seeks alongside Iftikhar. — connects to: White supremacist violence is analyzed without racial profiling theories. — Deepa Kumar, Islamophobia and the Politics of…, 606; Top officials treated black racial-identity activism as threatening while ignoring white supremacists — Anna Merlan, Republic of Lies, 207; Nearly eight in ten US domestic terror attacks in 2018 were white supremacy motivated. — Robert P. Jones, White Too Long: The Legacy of White…, 231 (+2 more)