UK Independent: Murders by White Supremacists in US More Than Doubled in 2017
18th January 2018
Murders committed by white supremacists more than doubled in the US last year, accounting for the majority of extremist killings, according to a report.
Far-right radicals were responsible for 20 of the 34 extremist murders in 2017, said the Anti-Defamation League (ADL).
Eighteen of those were carried out by white supremacists, who killed twice as many people as Islamic fundamentalists, the civil rights group’s Centre on Extremism said.
Eighteen. For the entire United States. Wow. What a crime wave.
Compare this to the murder rate in the city of Chicago: 650 in 2017, many of them black people shooting black people.
The deadliest extremist attack of 2016, however, was linked to Islamic extremism. Sayfullo Saipov, the man accused of killing eight people with a truck in New York in November, is said to have had connections to Isis.
But that didn’t rate mention in the headline, maybe because murders by Muslims aren’t really news.