This article was originally published in the Spring 2018 edition of the Law Enforcement Intelligence Brief by the Law Enforcement Charitable Foundation.
Did you know a practicing Muslim and a peaceful former Muslim concerned about terrorism were “anti-Muslim extremists”? Or how about the idea that a prominent black woman who teaches law and fights white nationalism was really “an apologist for white supremacists”? Did you know the “matriarch” of a vast “anti-Indian movement” in the United States was actually a Cherokee Indian married to an Indian? Or that “more than half of white Americans” have “anti-black attitudes”? You probably never would have guessed that numerous women, including self-described feminists, were really advocates of “a hateful ideology advocating for the subjugation of women,” would you? And you almost certainly never would have guessed that evangelical Christians, Catholics, and Orthodox Jews are examples of “religious extremism,” alongside al Qaeda and Hamas…. Right?
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