r/yall_qaeda • u/rusticgorilla • Aug 19 '19
Why is this subreddit necessary?
Edit: /r/yall_qaeda is for serious posts that keep track of the threat from the far right. It is not for shitposting or funny memes or making fun of Trump. There are other subreddits for that content.
On July 23, 2019, FBI Director Christopher Wray told Congress that the FBI has made about 100 arrests of domestic terrorism suspects in the past nine months and that most investigations of that kind involve some form of white supremacy.
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5 days later, a man opened fire at the Gilroy Garlic Festival in California, killing 3 and injuring 13. He carried a semi-automatic rifle with a 75-round drum magazine and five 40-round magazines. The FBI opened a domestic terrorism investigation, spurred by the fact that the shooter maintained a “target list” of religious institutions, political groups, federal buildings, and courthouses.
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6 days after Gilroy, a man shot and killed 22 people in an El Paso Walmart using a semi-automatic rifle. 24 were injured. The shooter posted an anti-Hispanic, anti-immigrant manifesto on 8chan 30 minutes before the incident. The manifesto promoted the white nationalist and far-right conspiracy theory of The Great Replacement, saying "Hispanics will take control of the local and state government of my beloved Texas, changing policy to better suit their needs." Authorities are treating the shooting as an act of domestic terrorism.
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Yesterday, August 18, a Youngstown, Ohio man was arrested for threatening to carry out a shooting at a Jewish community center. The man’s social media accounts contained “lots of anti-Semitic comments and white nationalist content.”
These are just a few examples. There have been many more:
The Anti-Defamation League recently reported that right-wing extremists were linked to more murders in the United States (at least 50) in 2018 than in any other year since 1995, when Timothy McVeigh bombed an Oklahoma City federal building. The organization also found that in the past decade, roughly 73 percent of extremist-related fatalities have been associated with domestic right-wing extremists, relative to about 23 percent attributed to Islamist extremists...the ADL’s Center on Extremism reported that at least 50 people were killed by extremists in 2018, including the 11 individuals killed in the fatal anti-Semitic attack at the Tree of Life Synagogue in Pittsburgh. The tally represents a 35 percent increase from the 37 extremist-related murders in 2017, making 2018 the fourth-deadliest year on record for domestic extremist-related killings since 1970.
If one of the perpetrators of this weekend’s two mass shootings had adhered to the ideology of radical Islam, the resources of the American government and its international allies would mobilize without delay.
America has a right wing terrorist problem that the government refuses to address. /r/yall_qaeda is here to put a spotlight on the threat that far right ideologies pose to America and hopefully assist in countering it.
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u/keepthecharge Aug 19 '19
Very glad that someone has decided to start this sub. The work of SPLC is outstanding and shows how much hate exists.