Shouldn’t Starting with the Best Available Data Be Non-Partisan and Patriotic?
There are over a thousand right-wing hate groups in the US. Nearly all are white male Christian groups and they are the source of most domestic terrorism. Yet, our conversation about domestic terrorism—including how law enforcement agencies profile in airports—focuses on Muslims.

“If the news media and political leaders were told there were a thousand violence-prone Muslim groups operating in the United States, can you imagine the reaction? Yet, apart from the glancing attention given incidents like the Sikh temple massacre, the national discourse about terrorism focuses almost exclusively on Muslims.”

Racial profiling? Yes. But it is not only discriminatory; it is targeting our resources in a direction not likely to make us safer.

It is racist and it is stupid. It is also one illustration of intentionallymisleading news stories distracting us from addressing real threats to advance the interests of a narrow segment of American elites who want us to focus our anger and frustration on Muslims or other less powerful groups...rather than on leadership failure.

It is racist, stupid, and it confuses and distracts us from the conversations we should be having about how to keep our children safe.