{"id":162201,"date":"2015-06-26T19:40:53","date_gmt":"2015-06-26T19:40:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/selective-outrage-on-terrorism\/"},"modified":"2015-06-26T19:40:53","modified_gmt":"2015-06-26T19:40:53","slug":"selective-outrage-on-terrorism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/selective-outrage-on-terrorism\/","title":{"rendered":"Selective Outrage on \u2018Terrorism\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<div readability=\"141.25451950523\">\n<p>America\u2019s view of \u201cterrorism\u201d is distorted by politics and bias, with intense hostility toward the Islamic variety but with much more tolerance of other forms, such as Cuban \u201canti-communist\u201d violence and right-wing\u00a0extremist murders, as underscored by a new study examined by ex-CIA analyst Paul R. Pillar.<\/p>\n<p><span id=\"more-15331\"\/>By Paul R. Pillar<\/p>\n<p>Many misconceptions about terrorism prevail among the American public. Occasionally one of these misconceptions gets challenged when hard data conveying a different picture become available. This is true of a recent New America study showing that most of the deaths in the United States from terrorist attacks since September 2001 have been perpetrated not by jihadists or other radical Muslims but instead by white supremacists, antigovernment activists, and other non-Muslim extremists.<\/p>\n<p>The discrepancy between such findings and prevalent American beliefs about terrorism can be glaring enough for the discrepancy to become literally a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2015\/06\/25\/us\/tally-of-attacks-in-us-challenges-perceptions-of-top-terror-threat.html?ref=us\"><u>front-page story<\/u><\/a>. But even that sort of attention is insufficient to kill prevailing beliefs \u2013 in this case, the belief that terrorism and specifically terrorism that threatens Americans is overwhelmingly a radical Muslim thing.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_12741\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" readability=\"33\"><a href=\"http:\/\/consortiumnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/peter-king.jpg?55ac53\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-12741\" src=\"https:\/\/consortiumnews.com\/wp-content\/plugins\/lazy-load\/images\/1x1.trans.gif?55ac53\" data-lazy-src=\"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/peter-king-300x168.jpg\" alt=\"Rep. Peter King, R-New York\" width=\"300\" height=\"168\"\/><noscript><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-12741\" src=\"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/peter-king-300x168.jpg\" alt=\"Rep. Peter King, R-New York\" width=\"300\" height=\"168\"\/><\/noscript><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Rep. Peter King, R-New York<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Information similar to that in the New America study has been around for some time; a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2015\/06\/16\/opinion\/the-other-terror-threat.html\"><u>survey of law enforcement agencies<\/u><\/a>, for example, yielded similar data. The recent multiple killings by a white supremacist in a predominantly black church in Charleston, South Carolina, has led some <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/posteverything\/wp\/2015\/06\/18\/call-the-charleston-church-shooting-what-it-is-terrorism\/\"><u>to raise a closely related issue<\/u><\/a> of what tends to get called <em>terrorism<\/em> and what doesn\u2019t. But this incident is another attention-grabbing event that seems again unlikely to overturn the popular notions of who most terrorists are and what they believe.<\/p>\n<p>The misconceptions have multiple roots. The experience of 9\/11 unquestionably has been very important in shaping American beliefs. That one event was so salient and traumatic that it has fostered a host of other misconceptions, such as the notion that significant terrorist threats to the United States all began on that one day 14 years ago.<\/p>\n<p>The attitude-shaping effect of 9\/11 rested atop longer-standing American ways of&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/consortiumnews.com\/2015\/06\/26\/selective-outrage-on-terrorism\/\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>America\u2019s view of \u201cterrorism\u201d is distorted by politics and bias, with intense hostility toward the Islamic variety but with much more tolerance of other forms, such as Cuban \u201canti-communist\u201d violence and right-wing\u00a0extremist murders, as underscored by a new study examined by ex-CIA analyst Paul R. Pillar. By Paul R. Pillar Many misconceptions about terrorism prevail [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-162201","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162201","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=162201"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162201\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=162201"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=162201"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=162201"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}