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While the new administration focuses on Muslim refugees and immigrants, the most lethal terrorism threat of recent years is homegrown, and most often comes from right-wing radicals.
ACT for America the largest grassroots anti-Muslim organization in the country claiming 1,000 active chapters and over half a million members quietly deleted its chapter locator map this week.
Elisabeth Sabaditsch-Wolff — an Austrian anti-Muslim activist convicted of hate speech in her native country in 2011 — was invited to meet with Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach, in Topeka on March 7.
ACT for America — the largest grassroots anti-Muslim group in the country — has come under fire recently. Prominent San Antonio, ACT chapter leader Roy White was fired in late February for refusing to cancel a meeting designed to show activists how to “shut down mosques.”
In 2011, the New York Times profiled David Yerushalmi, an anti-Muslim extremist and the go-to lawyer for the movement at large.
Preaching about the “evils of Islam” and the need for evangelical Christians to step up and defend the Constitution, their beliefs and way of life appears to be a burgeoning business opportunity.
Rapides Parrish District Attorney Phillip Terrell — the man whose office invited anti-Muslim extremist John Guandolo to train law enforcement in Alexandria next week — once ran a law firm with a well-known Louisiana Klansman Greg Aymond.
John Guandolo — a disgraced ex-FBI agent turned anti-Muslim activist — will be in Rapides Parish, Louisiana next week, to train law enforcement. Guandolo, who runs a “strategic and operational training & consulting” group named Understanding the Threat, travels the country ostensibly teaching LEOs at every level of government how to seek out terrorist cells in their area. Guandolo’s trainings instead serve as anti-Muslim witch-hunts, often times targeting and vilifying local Muslim leaders.
A Kansas man is in jail on murder and attempted murder charges after allegedly shouting “get out of my country” and racial slurs before firing a handgun Wednesday evening in a crowded sports bar in suburb of Kansas City.
Last June, six months after paying a visit to the occupiers of the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge, Washington State Representative Matt Shea organized a chapter of the anti-Muslim hate group ACT For America in Spokane, Washington.