The special pleading around the question of whether to call terrorism by radical Muslims “radical Islamic terrorism” clouded a critical issue.
Now is the time for a global war on white nationalist terrorism.
As The Daily Beast reported on Friday, fewer than one in five FBI cases target white supremacists.
Networks of white nationalist apologists, sympathizers, supporters and facilitators—vital to any terrorist movement—are deeply embedded in the political and social fabric.
Trump is “a symbol of renewed white identity and common purpose,” as Tarrant wrote in his manifesto.
“The colonized,” he wrote, meaning the embattled white Europeans, “ought not to imitate the methods of the colonizer,” meaning the immigrants to Europe, by adopting terror tactics.
The fight is not against conservatives, the right wing, the alt-right—it is against white nationalist terrorism and its apologists. »