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The threats from these networks comes from individuals, not groups. Second, these networks operate and organize to a great extent online, challenging law enforcement efforts to identify potential attackers. Anti-government Extremists: The right-wing terrorist threat also includes anti-government extremists, including militias and the sovereign citizen movement. Most militia extremists view the U. Modern militias are organized as paramilitaries that conduct weapons training and other field exercises.
Police in Texas arrested year-old Aaron Swenson in April after he attempted to livestream his search for a police officer that he could ambush and execute. Incels: Involuntary celibates, or incels, conduct acts of violence against women. The incel movement is composed of a loosely organized virtual community of young males. The far-left includes a decentralized mix of actors. Anarchists are fundamentally opposed to a centralized government and capitalism, and they have organized plots and attacks against government, capitalist, and globalization targets.
While some consider Antifa a sub-set of anarchists, adherents frequently blend anarchist and communist views. One of the most common symbols used by Antifa combines the red flag of the Russian Revolution and the black flag of nineteenth-century anarchists.
Antifa groups frequently conduct counter- protests to disrupt far-right gatherings and rallies. They often organize in black blocs ad hoc gatherings of individuals that wear black clothing, ski masks, scarves, sunglasses, and other material to conceal their faces , use improvised explosive devices and other homemade weapons, and resort to vandalism. In addition, Antifa members organize their activities through social media, encrypted peer-to-peer networks, and encrypted messaging services such as Signal.
Antifa groups have been increasingly active in protests and rallies over the past few years, especially ones that include far-right participants. In February, March, and April , Antifa members attacked alt-right demonstrators at the University of California, Berkeley, using bricks, pipes, hammers, and homemade incendiary devices.
Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention facility in Tacoma, Washington, using a propane tank but was killed by police. Our data suggest that right-wing extremists pose the most significant terrorism threat to the United States, based on annual terrorist events and fatalities. Over the next year, the threat of terrorism in the United States will likely increase based on several factors, such as the November presidential election and the response to the Covid crisis.
Concerned about a possible backlash against Muslims in the U. Bush gave a speech to the Islamic Center in Washington, D.
This spirit of unity and comity was not to last. Republicans, in particular, increasingly came to associate Muslims and Islam with violence. But within the next few years, most Republicans and GOP leaners said Islam was more likely than other religions to encourage violence. Democrats consistently have been far less likely than Republicans to associate Islam with violence. The partisan gap in views of Muslims and Islam in the U.
For example, a survey found that half of U. Surveys of U. Muslims from found increasing shares saying they have personally experienced discrimination and received public expression of support. It has now been two decades since the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center and Pentagon and the crash of Flight 93 — where only the courage of passengers and crew possibly prevented an even deadlier terror attack.
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The number of terrorism attacks in the US have risen from 20 in to as high as 73 in The nation has averaged about 30 terrorism attacks a year from to Eighty-four percent of the 64 US terrorist attacks in were not lethal.
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