Overall, anti-immigrant incidents (315) remain the most reported, followed by anti-black (221), anti-Muslim (112), and anti-LGBT (109). Anti-Trump incidents numbered 26 (6 of which were also anti-white in nature, with 2 non-Trump related anti-white incidents reported)
We’ve also been tracking false reports (13 total), as a handful of high profile incidents have been recently uncovered, including two (I, II) that we had previously counted and have removed for this update.
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Here’s the transcription [of a Hate message left on the Voice Mail of Grand Rapids Church]:
“I think this is the gay church, that help gays that get kicked out of the country along with all the fricken Mexicans that are illegal that you guys are hiding illegally. I hope Trump gets ya. Trump Trump Trump. Trump Trump Trump. Trump’s gonna get your asses out of here and throw you over the wall. You dirty rotten scumbags. Hillary is a scumbag bitch. too bad waaa waaa. Hillary lost. Hillary lost. Trump’s gonna getcha and throw you over the wall.”
Like the incident above, around 37 percent of all incidents directly referenced either President-elect Donald Trump, his campaign slogans, or his infamous remarks about sexual assault.
These of course are fairly recent but if you look back over our history the terrorism of the KKK is responsible for the death of nearly 4,000 people.
If you look internationally you of course have the recent mosque attack in Canada but you also have the mass murder committed by neo-Nazi Anders Breivik who killed 77 people in Norway.
There Breivik shot and killed 69 people, in a massacre that lasted for more than an hour, right until the police arrived, when he immediately surrendered.
He wanted to save Norway. Just a few hours before detonating the bomb, Breivik emailed a 1,500-page manifesto to 1,000 recipients, in which he said that we were at war with Muslims and multiculturalism and that the slaughter of the campers was meant to be a wake-up call. He also uploaded to YouTube a 12-minute video that revealed, with propagandistic simplicity, what was about to happen in Europe: the Muslim invasion.
Yeah, none of that is like Islamic terrorism except for being exactly the same. Not that you can apparently tell that to Sean Duffy.
“There's a difference,” Rep. Sean Duffy (R-WI) told CNN’s Alisyn Camerota, when she asked him why Trump hadn’t condemned the white supremacist who killed six Muslim congregants during prayer at a Canadian mosque on Jan. 29.
“Again, death and murder on both sides is wrong, but if you want to take the dozens of scenarios where ISIS-inspired attacks have taken innocents, and you give one example of what was in Canada, I’m going to condemn them all,” Duffy said. “But again, you don't have a group like ISIS or Al Qaeda that’s inspiring people around the world to take up arms and kill innocents. That was a one-off, that was a one-off, Alisyn. And you have a movement on the other side.”
When Camerota brought up other examples of white people committing acts of terrorism—the Oklahoma City bombing and the Charleston shooting of black church-goers—Duffy was dismissive.
“Oklahoma was, what, 20 years ago?” he said. “That's different than this whole movement that has taken place through ISIS.”
“It does matter,” he said later of the Charleston massacre. “Look at the good things that came from it. Nikki Haley took down the confederate flag, that was great!”
Duffy went on to ask Camerota whether there was any way to prevent white supremacist attacks.
“What do we do on the white supremacy front to make sure we don't have another attack like Charleston? I am with you on that, Alisyn,” he said.
“Speak out about it, crack down on it, and talk about it as extreme violence as much as talk about all of the other terrorism that you call radical Islamic terrorism,” Camerota replied.
“So let's crack down on ISIS,” Duffy said. “Let's crack down to the seven terror countries that are riddled with terrorists and give Donald Trump 90 days to 120 days, give him a pause to make sure he can keep us safe.”
Contrary to Duffy’s claims there is a wordwide neo-Nazi movement.
Neo-Nazi activity is a global phenomenon, with organized representation in many countries, as well as international networks. In some European and Latin American countries, laws have been enacted that prohibit the expression of pro-Nazi, racist, anti-Semitic or homophobic views. Many Nazi-related symbols are banned in European countries in an effort to curtail neo-Nazism.[3]
Part of this neo-Nazi movement now cloaks itself under the name “Alt-RIght” and even has it's own Bin Laden of sorts, although he’s not from Syria either. He’s from Montana.
The Alternative Right, commonly known as the Alt-Right, is a set of far-right ideologies, groups and individuals whose core belief is that “white identity” is under attack by multicultural forces using “political correctness” and “social justice” to undermine white people and “their” civilization. Characterized by heavy use of social media and online memes, Alt-Righters eschew “establishment” conservatism, skew young, and embrace white ethno-nationalism as a fundamental value.
The Alternative Right is a term coined in 2008 by Richard Bertrand Spencer, who heads the white nationalist think tank known as the National Policy Institute, to describe a loose set of far-right ideals centered on “white identity” and the preservation of “Western civilization.” In 2010, Spencer, who had done stints as an editor of The American Conservative and Taki’s Magazine, launched the Alternative Right blog, where he worked to refine the movement’s ideological tenets.
Spencer describes the Alt Right as a big-tent ideology that blends the ideas of neo-reactionaries (NRx-ers), who advocate a return to an antiquated, pseudo-libertarian government that supports “traditional western civilization”; “archeofuturists,” those who advocate for a return to “traditional values” without jettisoning the advances of society and technology; human biodiversity adherents (HBDers) and “race realists,” people who generally adhere to “scientific racism”; and other extreme-right ideologies. Alt-Right adherents stridently reject egalitarianism and universalism
Sounds like he wants to “Make America Hate Greatly Again.”
The seven countries Trump attempted to ban haven’t produced a SINGLE terrorist that has attacked the U.S. The Boston bombers, the Pulse Night club shooter, the San Bernadino Shooters, the New Jersey attempted bombing, the attempted Time Square bomber, the attempted underwear bomber and the Fort Hood shooter were all either American Citizens or from countries like Pakistan, Turkmenistan or Lagos Nigeria.
None of them would have been impacted by this ban. None of these attacks would have been stopped. Even in Europe the attacks that occurred there in Paris, Berlin (by Anis Amri) and Nice (by Mohamed Lahouaiej-Bouhlel) weren’t committed by refugees from Syria or Iraq, they were committed by people who were from France, Belgium and Tunisia.
The problem with people like Duffy is they think there’s something dramatic different or unique about the terrorism of al Qaeda or ISIS. There isn’t. Extremism and Terrorism is the problem, the fact that people are twisting Islam or Christianity or Judaism or Racism as an excuse for that terrorism doesn’t much matter.
Sure It is difficult to vet for that. You can’t just have a travel ban on Christians and neo-Nazis because they’re already here. They’ve been here for a long long time. In fact they’re infiltrating our local law enforcement. But starting off by violating the civil and human rights of people who had nothing to do with any of these attacks is definitely going the wrong way.