I can’t solely blame the election of POTUS Donnie for the raise of anti-Muslim groups. Anti-whatever groups have been growing since 9/11, it’s that with the ever growing interweb and somebody/somebodies having a knee jerk reaction to a lone wolf attack they feel it’s necessary to have to form a group.
Hell in the late 1980’s and early 1990’s being anti-government was all the rage. – PB/TK
Anti-Muslim hate groups nearly triple in US since last year, report finds – Lois Beckett Wednesday 15 February 2017 16.00 EST
The number of organized anti-Muslim hate groups in America nearly tripled last year, from 34 to more than 100, according to a new report from the Southern Poverty Law Center, a left-leaning non-profit that tracks extremist groups.
The center credited the “incendiary rhetoric” of Donald Trump’s presidential campaign with fueling the rise in anti-Muslim hate, along with anger over terror attacks like the Pulse nightclub shooting in Orlando last June.
Several senior White House officials, including Steve Bannon, Steven Miller, and Kellyanne Conway, are “serious anti-Muslim ideologues”, Mark Potok, the lead author of the annual hate group report, said Wednesday.
“It’s hardly like the departure of Michael Flynn is going to mitigate the really serious onslaught directed at American Muslims,” Potok said. The former national security adviser, who resigned Monday, had made several anti-Muslim statements, including a Twitter post suggesting that “fear of Muslims is rational”.
The new report found there are now more than 900 active hate groups across the US – from Ku Klux Klan chapters to neo-Nazi hubs to racist black separatist organizations – an uptick of less than 3% since 2015, according to the group’s annual count. This is slightly lower than the group’s all-time high count of 1,018 hate groups in 2011.
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