Democrats and the liberal media focused on extolling the terror threats associated with the White House while downplaying threats from jihadist terrorist groups like ISIS before the terrorist attack in New Orleans on Wednesday.
On New Year's Day, a 42-year-old Texas native plowed his truck into a crowd of New Year's revelers. Bourbon Street, New Orleanskilling at least 14 and injuring more than 30 others. The FBI identified the man responsible for the attack as Shamsud-Din Jabbar, who was flying an ISIS flag from his truck at the time of the attack. The incident revived previous comments about national security threats made by liberal pundits and Democratic lawmakers.
“According to the intelligence community, terrorism from White supremacy is the most deadly threat to his country today. Not ISIS, not al Qaeda – White supremacists,” President Biden said in June 2021.
Biden would also call White supremacy “the most dangerous terrorist threat” facing the nation during the inauguration. Howard University address on May 13, 2023. The next day, MSNBC host Jonathan Capehart asked Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas if he thought Biden's comments about white supremacy were “the most dangerous threat to terrorism” targeting the public is correct. “It hurts,” Mayorkas replied.
Shamsud Din-Jabbar was pictured in an unidentified photo released by the FBI after he drove a truck down New Orleans' Bourbon Street and died in a shootout with responding officers. (FBI)
Mayorkas and Attorney General Merrick Garland gave similar answers at a congressional hearing in 2021 when asked by Sen. Patrick Leahy, D-Vt., if “White supremacist extremists are still the most persistent and deadly threat we face in our country today?”
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“Of course it is,” Mayorkas said.
When Garland was asked if he agreed with Mayorkas, he responded, “I do, and it's a recent FBI investigation.”
Their comments came after a report published by Director of National Intelligence which found that extremists pose America's deadliest domestic terrorism threat. In a March 2021 conference call, FBI director Christopher Wray testified that the threat from domestic violence was “metastasizing” across the US.
According to DHS, there were 231 incidents of domestic terrorism between 2010 and 2021. Of these, approximately 35% were classified as racially or ethnically motivated. These attacks were also the deadliest, yet the FBI and DHS do not destroy the racial background of the perpetrators of this group.
Violent anti-government or anti-authoritarian attacks were the second largest group of attacks and resulted in 15 deaths over 11 years.
FBI Director Christopher Wray testifies before the Senate Judiciary Committee's impeachment inquiry on Capitol Hill in Washington, on December 5, 2023. (AP/Susan Walsh)
Report The New America think tank concluded that right-wing extremists killed 134 people in more than 30 attacks, while US-based “Jihadists” killed 107 people in 14 attacks. .The FBI defines far-right terrorism as anti-government, anti-military, anti-White supremacist and anti-abortion violence.
New York Governor Kathy Hochul spoke in a speech to the people of New York on Nov. 22. 2022, that “White leaders, right-wing extremists and domestic terrorists are trying to strike fear into the hearts of New Yorkers,” and that they “want us to think twice about our safety before we pray.” , before we get on the train.”
New York Governor Kathy Hochul speaks during a press conference on September 13, 2023 in New York City. (Photo by John Lamparski/Getty Images) (John Lamparski)
Joy Reid, host of MSNBC's “The ReidOut,” explained why she thinks domestic terrorism is not condemned in the same way that foreign terrorism is condemned by Republicans. , in a Nov. 2023.
“Iran is becoming a proxy for Muslims, we're going to shoot people in Mexico and talk about fentanyl being a proxy for the brown people south of our border,” Reid said.
His guest, Cornell Belcher, was also dismayed by the perception that not enough attention is being paid to White's high-profile threats compared to foreign threats.
Belcher said: “You don't hear them saying that we are going to take out, or we are going to smoke white supremacy in this country, the way they talk about terrorism in other places.
“I wonder why that is?” he asked.
Security with bomb-sniffing dogs patrols the area around the Superdome before the Sugar Bowl NCAA College Football Playoff game, Thursday, Jan. 2, 2025, in New Orleans. (AP Photo/Butch Dill)
ISIS is a jihadist group that created terrorist attacks around the world but it has lost power in recent years, including in 2019 when US forces killed Iraqi soldier and ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi. The FBI said Thursday that Jabbar was “inspired” by ISIS, adding that it had found no evidence that he was ordered by ISIS to carry out the attack.
The suspected terrorist's brother told The New York Times that Jabbar was raised as a Christian, but converted to Islam. His brother, Abdur Jabbar, emphasized that his brother does not represent the Islamic faith and instead called his actions an example of “radicalization.”
Fox News' Emma Colton contributed to this report.
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