'White terrorism' turning into a real threat in US
The United States waged many wars outside its borders under the pretext of fighting terrorism and the danger posed by Islamist radicalism.
Nevertheless, a rise in the number
of shootings inside it, ones that left dozens of people dead and injured so
far, raises questions on whether Western states are on the right track as far
as the real fight on terrorism is concerned.
Western media tends to quickly
describe attacks launched by those harboring Islamist ideologies as
"terrorist" ones. However, the same media becomes very cautious when
it deals with attacks carried out by western nationals.
The rise in hate and racism crimes
in Western societies also makes Islamist terrorism go down to the bottom of the
list of security dangers faced by these societies. What is known as "White
terrorism" takes the stead of this Islamist terrorism at the top of the
list. White terrorism is perpetrated by whites who refuse the presence of
immigrants and the followers of other religions and other cultures in Western
societies.
Rise
The latest attacks in the US
invited attention yet again to the scope of White terrorism in the American
society. The latest example in this regard was of a man who opened the fire of
his semi-automatic rifle on passersby near a bar in Ohio. Several people were
killed and others injured. According to the Australian newspaper Sydney
Morning, the attacker is a Spanish-American who is against immigration.
A few hours before this attack took
place, another occurred in Texas. This attack was carried out by a 21-year-old
White American who killed 20 people.
The attacker left behind a number
of messages in which he expressed his hatred for immigrants. He described these
immigrants as the most serious threat facing the American society. He told
police that he had planned to kill the largest number of Mexican migrants,
which was why he selected a border city to carry out his attack.
Debate
These attacks have stirred up an
internal debate in the US. The weekly news magazine, Newsweek, ran an interview
on August 3 with the former assistant director of counterintelligence at the
Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), Frank Figliuzzi, who accused US
President Donald Trump of making such attacks possible.
He said the situation in the US has
become a lot similar to Islamist extremism. Figliuzzi added that the US suffers
from increasing rates of hate and the spread of arms and violence.
He called for treating racist
crimes as a type of terrorism. Figliuzzi revealed that almost half of the cases
investigated by the FBI are related to White terrorism.
He said this is a type of hate
abetted by Trump's administration.
