http://www.alternet.org/tea-party-and-right/angry-armed-and-white-typical-profile-americas-most-violent-extremists?akid=12790.294211.RFCfAi&rd=1&src=newsletter1031810&t=2
We can safely say that Craig Stephen Hicks fits the profile of the
most common type of domestic violent extremist—a white man with
grievances and guns. Whether he was provoked by road rage, rage against
neighbors who wore traditional Muslim clothing, or other simmering
grudges and pathologies, his alleged killing of three young Muslims
underscores a trend that mainstream U.S. media avoids: that the face of
violent extremism in America since 9/11 is predominantly white. Muslims
in America, while not exempt from crime, simply do not compare.
There’s no shortage of crime statistics confirming this. A 2001-2015 “Homegrown Extremism” analysis by
the New America Foundation parsed the “ethnicity, age, gender and
citizenship” of people who killed or violently attacked others, whether
they were motivated by jihadist philosophies or other “right wing, left
wing or idiosyncratic beliefs.” Of 448 extremists counted, white men who
were U.S. citizens outnumbered every other demographic by wide margins.
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