As President Barack Obama continues to receive
criticism for his refusal to use the term “Islamic extremism,” some
federal authorities and law enforcement groups in the United States
assert that anti-government groups pose a bigger threat than ISIS.
The Department of Homeland Security circulated an
intelligence assessment earlier this month which focuses on right-wing
sovereign citizens and other domestic extremists.
“Some federal and local law enforcement groups view the
domestic terror threat from sovereign citizen groups as equal to — and
in some cases greater than — the threat from foreign Islamic terror
groups, such as ISIS, that garner more public attention,” reports CNN.
While hyping the threat posed by sovereign citizens, who
have been involved in sporadic violent confrontations mainly targeting
police officers over the last five years, the DHS has completely dismissed intelligence obtained by Judicial Watch that ISIS militants stationed in Juarez, Mexico could be planning attacks inside the United States.
ISIS militants are openly bragging about the fact that they have sleeper cells within the country waiting to conduct devastating attacks
on U.S. soil as the Obama administration frets about not using the term
“Islamic” while worrying about right-wingers committing traffic
violations.
As we have exhaustively documented,
the federal government has consistently downplayed the threat of
Islamic terror in favor of pushing hysteria about right-wing extremism.
The FBI’s most recent national terror threat assessment list completely omits Islamic terrorists, instead focusing on sovereign citizens and the militia movement.
A 2012 University of Maryland study
funded to the tune of $12 million dollars by the DHS characterized
Americans who are “suspicious of centralized federal authority,” and
“reverent of individual liberty” as “extreme right-wing” terrorists
while glossing over the threat posed by Islamic extremism.
Last August, over a year after the Boston bombing, the Department of Homeland Security also listed sovereign citizens as a more deadly potential terror threat than Islamic extremists, placing sovereign citizens number one on the list.
PSA’s for the Department of Homeland Security’s See Something, Say Something program also failed to portray terrorists as Muslims on numerous occasions, preferring instead to depict the bad guys as white middle class Americans.
Returning veterans have also been characterized by the federal government as a bigger threat than Islamic extremism.
The Obama administration’s obsession with hyping the
threat of domestic extremism seems clearly geared towards demonizing
its ideological adversaries – libertarians and conservatives – while the
true threat posed by the Islamic State, whose members have repeatedly
threatened to attack the United States, continues to be sidelined.
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