This
month, the headlines were about a Muslim man in Boston who was accused of threatening police officers
with a knife.
Last month, two Muslims attacked an anti-
Islamic conference in Garland. Tex. The month before, a
Muslim man was charged with plotting to drive a truck
bomb onto a military installation in Kansas. If you keep
up with the news, you know that a small but steady
stream of American Muslims, radicalized by overseas
extremists, are engaging in violence here in the United
States
But headlines can mislead. The main terrorist threat in
the United States is not from violent Muslim extremists,
but from right-wing extremists. Just ask the police.
In a survey we conducted with the Police Executive
Research Forum last year of 382 law enforcement
agencies, 74 percent reported anti-government
extremism as one of the top three terrorist threats in
their jurisdiction: 39 percent listed extremism connected
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