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Tuesday 22 Dec 2015 - 13:55 Makkah mean time-11-3-1437
Washington, (IINA) - Right-wing extremists have killed at least 48 people statewide over the last 14 years since September 11 attacks, almost twice as many as were killed by self-identified extremist in that time, according to a study released on Wednesday by the New America Foundation, a Washington, D.C., research center, Euro-Islam Info online news reported on Monday.
The study found that radical anti-government groups or white supremacists were responsible for most of the terror attacks. Nine people were added to a long list of lives taken by domestic terrorism when Dylann Roof allegedly began shooting inside a historic black church in Charleston, South Carolina, on June 17.
The data counters many conventional thoughts on what terrorism is and isn’t. Since Sept. 11, many Americans attribute terror attacks to Islamic extremists instead of those in the right wing. But the numbers don’t back up this popular conception, said Charles Kurzman, a professor at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Kurzman is co-authoring a study with David Schanzer of Duke University, set to be published on Thursday that asks police departments to rank the three biggest threats from violent extremism in their jurisdiction.
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