On this day in 2019, a 20-year old white supremacist shot and killed a woman and wounded 3 others in a California synagogue.
Tag: Far right
On this day in 1995, an American rightwing terrorist exploded a truck bomb outside a federal building in Oklahoma killing 168 people, including children.
Nail bombs planted by a neo-Nazi in London in 1999 killed 3 and wounded 139 people
Over the last years we are hearing more and more about how many Germans espousing right-wing extreme ideas. German military in particular is concerned.
On this day in 2019, Australian citizen Brenton Tarrant, carried out attacks on two mosques in Christchurch that resulted in the deaths of at least 50 people.
On this day in 2017, Adam Purinton shot two Indian men whom he had mistaken for Iranians, at a restaurant in Olathe, Kansas. He yelled “get out of my country” and “terrorist” before firing.
Motive can be difficult to discern in acts that seem ‘terrorist’ in nature: can we trust what the terrorists themselves tell us?
Many Western nations are seeing a rise in neo-Nazi extremism. What should we do about these actors? Send them to moon – or is that a ‘loony’ idea?
How we define terrorism matters. Using inaccurate terminology could affect how we manage it. In this episode, we see how the US system is unhelpful.
We really need to stop debating whether the far right or Islamist extremists are more dangerous: both need to be monitored.