Most white nationalists hate Muslims (among other immigrants and races). Jihadis hate everything. So what can these two groups of extremists have in common?
Phil Gurski talks with Dr Sara Kamali, author of the new book, Homegrown Hate: Why White Nationalists and Militant Islamists are Waging War against the United States
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About my guest Dr Sara Kamali
Dr Sara Kamali is a Senior Fellow at the Centre for Analysis of the Radical Right in the UK and an expert with the Canadian Network for Research on Terrorism, Security and Society. She is also a holistic justice activist and a scholar of systemic inequities, White nationalism, and militant Islamism.
Her scholarship and activism address how interlocking institutions of power oppress the many while maintaining systems of privilege for a select few.
Sara is the author of Homegrown Hate: Why White Nationalists and Militant Islamists Are Waging War against the United States
About the host Phil Gurski
Phil Gurski is the President and CEO of Borealis Threat and Risk Consulting Ltd. and Programme Director for the Security, Economics and Technology (SET) hub at the University of Ottawa’s Professional Development Institute (PDI). He worked as a senior strategic analyst at CSIS (Canadian Security Intelligence Service) from 2001-2015, specializing in violent Islamist-inspired homegrown terrorism and radicalisation.
From 1983 to 2001 he was employed as a senior multilingual analyst at Communications Security Establishment (CSE – Canada’s signals intelligence agency), specialising in the Middle East.
Homegrown Hate: Why White Nationalists and Militant Islamists Are Waging War against the United States
by Sara Kamali (Author)
April 2021
Homegrown Hate is a groundbreaking and deeply researched work that directly compares White nationalists and militant Islamists in the United States. In this timely book, scholar and holistic justice activist Sara Kamali examines these Americans’ self-described beliefs, grievances, and rationales for violence, and details their organizational structures within a transnational context.
She presents compelling insight into the most pressing threat to homeland security not only in the United States, but in nations across the globe: citizens who are targeting their homeland according to their respective narratives of victimhood.
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