White supremacist overrated as a threat

MRCTV:

After discussing the three ISIS terrorist attacks on Friday on Sunday's "This Week with George Stephanopoulos" with Rep. Peter King (R-NY) and ABC's Pierre Thomas, host Stephanopoulos raised a NY Times article which suggested that white supremacists are a bigger threat to Americans than ISIS terrorists. The dour-faced King adamantly disagreed with the liberal Times, “Every murder is horrible, but there is no comparison between these white supremacists and an internationally coordinated movement, That's The New York Times at its worst.”

As the former chairman of the House Committee on Homeland Security and present chairman of the House Counterterrorism and Intelligence subcommittee, Rep. King certainly knows what he is talking about when it comes to both threats.

King started the segment with a warning about ISIS:

There's great concern. I would say there's probably more concern now than at any time since September 11th. And as you said, there are these lone wolf attacks. But ISIS, really, they have a multi-level sense of operation. It's not just the lone wolves. Also, there can be some coordination among these so-called lone wolves that are out there.

But then the host and former Clinton operative changed the topic the NY Times, White Supremacist story.

Stephanopoulos: All of that is chilling. And, at the same time, I was struck by a "New York Times" report this week, Pierre, that pointed out a study by the New America Foundation, that said that since 9/11, nearly twice as many people have been killed by white supremacists and anti-government extremists as radical Muslims.

They also add a study from researchers at Duke University in North Carolina, which asked 382 police and sheriff's departments nationwide to rank the three biggest threats from violent extremism. About 74 percent listed anti-government violence, 39 percent al Qaeda-inspired violence.

Pierre Thomas answered first suggesting that law enforcement cares more about ISIS because the numbers that would be killed and injured the international terrorist attack would be much higher than a white supremacist. King agreed....
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I think the left would rather fight the white supremacist than the Islamic terrorist because they perceive them as "right wing."  The major difference is that the Islamic terrorist have a genocidal bent toward mass murder and they are more organized.   Killers like the nut in Charleston are loners with no leadership skills.  The left seems disappointed that the killer was caught and will be prosecuted.  I think they would have preferred to keep the threat out there for political purposes.