UT professor to Oak Ridge League: Most recent terrorist attacks in U.S. made by right-wing groups

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After the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon on Sept. 11, 2001, Americans worried for years about the increasing number of domestic terrorism attacks by radical Islamists.

However, in the past seven years, most terrorist attacks in the United States, “probably two-thirds to three-fourths, would be categorized by the FBI and by a University of Maryland project as right-wing terrorism,” said Brandon Prins, professor and director of graduate studies in the University of Tennessee's political science department. He was the guest speaker at a recent League of Women Voters of Oak Ridge luncheon.

“In the United States, Islamic terrorism attacks have been eclipsed by white nationalist violence that we see more of today,” he said.

Prins defined right-wing, white nationalist attacks as “violence perpetrated by people who are anti-government in that they’re reacting negatively to liberal policies, LGBTQ rights and excessive government regulation.”

https://www.oakridger.com/story/news/local/2023/03/09/ut-prof-most-recent-u-s-terrorist-attacks-made-by-right-wing-groups/69948777007/