Extremism comes in different colors,ethnicities, beards and head coverings – which is why racial profiling cannot protect us from all extremist violenceIf, or in a vacuum,I told you that a bearded man with his head covered had posted a video on social media calling on his followers to leave their homes with weapons, migrate to a current area, or steal over government property “as long as necessary and use violence whether confronted by law enforcement,you’d probably assume that I was talking about the latest propaganda video released by Isis, filmed in Iraq or Syria and intended to recruit violent Muslim extremists.
But that exact call was recently issued on Facebook by white rancher Ammon Bundy, and the son of Cliven Bundy who also engaged in an armed standoff with law enforcement in 2014 and who currently owes the government more than $1m in fees. The younger Bundys goal this time was to encourage his fellow American “patriots” to steal up arms against the US government in protest of the arson convictions of ranchers Dwight Hammond Jr and his son,Steven.
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Source: theguardian.com