I think right-wing extremism worse than Islamic terrorism.

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there are 337 right wing extremist violent acts a year, and 9 violent attacks from Islamic terrorism since 9/11. You are twice more likely to die from a right wing extremist attack a year than an Islamic terrorism attack a year. As for ISIS, maybe if we didn't do drone strikes in Pakistan that kill 5 civilians for every terrorist killed, and invaded Iraq on false pretenses, that would not have happened! Maybe if we didn't support Zionist Israel in their atrocities against the Palestinian people, and, decades ago, against the Lebanese, it would not happen!

Source: Former Muslim, current Baha'i. Turkish.

Aren't Islamic terrorists also right wing exteremists, only foreign, when you get down to it? Sharia Law and Christian Reconstructionalism are pretty much alike

I'd say islamists and right wingers have practically everything in common. Weapons, expensive trucks, contrived abrahamic zealotry, disrespect towards ~50% of everything and everyone. The western side of this insanity has more money, more popular support, more trucks and hands down, most of the absolute craziest drugs in the world. There's no question in my mind at all that the U.S. is more dangerous, and I live here...

I was also raised unitarian, so I have a tacit understanding and respect for Baha'i. I'm more or less Rastafarian now, which I'm pretty sure stands the best chance of stopping the U.S. from overunning the entire world.

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I figured both where a type of 'right wing' extremism....I mean as a rule the right tends to be more religious often times. The way I see it Islamic terrorists would be right wing within Islam, like you know how religious extremists here might want their religious morals put into law, think people ought to abide by them or with more racist groups they want certain people to be 'gotten rid of' and use a lot of religous based arguments for this actually. Only difference is here christianity is the mainstream religion so religious extremists likely follow branches of that here.....over in the middle east Islam is the mainstream religion so naturally religious extremists there will follow forms of Islam. But in an extreme manner that does not really contribute to humanity.

the right wing extremism you describe is not so different from Islam extremism or any other religious/philosophical extremism.

sweetleaf and cberg, i agree

Perhaps if you're only counting American lives. If you start tallying in the death counts in the middle east among various Muslim groups under Al Qaeda and ISIS - they're overdosed on viagra while ours can barely stay awake.

where is all this "right wing extremism" happening?

Meh. Give any extremist group with any left or right belief the proper resources, and massive amounts of rationally thinking blood will flow.

Some insurgencies, however, plant gardens and name their orphans Fidel when the violence stops. Fundamentalists' only real interest is in heroics and conquests. Even the far right in the US of A is only really appeased by their ongoing capacity for violence against pretty much anybody who gives them funny looks. I'm not saying half our country is populated with trigger happy bozos, it's just that a lot of humanity has the propensity to decide everything they don't understand is sacrilige and accordingly, fight to eradicate it.

People who fail to underatand history want to repeat it, so they kill more people.

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-Georges Lemaitre
"I fly through hyperspace, in my green computer interface"
-Gem Tos

Any possibility that ISIS will be planting some peace gardens after they execute enough kids for watching soccer or rape enough young girls? They might be the pure physical manifestation of anti-reason as a blunt force of nature but at least they'd be showing some conscience about their carbon footprint.

Islamism terrorism is a right-wing extremism - and it's being the worst extremism today.

I am also a former muslim, atheist now.

337 ? Who is keeping count? Is this at least per day?

Since 9/11? 6,000 dead in East Ukraine, 250,000 in Syria, we need more zeros.

Just to keep up with the Islamic State, the South would have to become Yankee Free and re-enslave the Blacks.

Then appoint an Emperor for the Protectorate of Mexico.

I doubt your numbers, or what you think are Right.

As Andrew Young points out, almost all Blacks murdered, are murdered by other Blacks.

Is that now a Right Wing Hate Crime?

I'd say both share the motivation of seeking their own sense of justice and achieving their own version of peace, but that's something they have in common with every human I guess.