Terrorism in 2023 was mostly attributable to Islamic, not “domestic right wing,” extremists. From Phil Gurski at The Epoch Times via zerohedge.com:
Yes, I know this is the Christmas season and that we are all expecting happy stories full of cheer and God bless and goodwill to all, but it is also the time of year where just about every news source comes up with retrospectives, summarizing the last 365 days before we begin the calendar again. This piece is in that vein, or at least a part of it.
In the Sherlock Holmes story “The Adventure of Silver Blaze,” Sir Arthur Conan Doyle tells us how the reticent local hound was the clue the famous detective needed to solve a horse theft and murder. In other words, it was a non-event, and not an actual happening, that ended up being the most important element in the story.
It turns out that when it came to terrorism in 2023, while recognizing that a few days are left in the year, a similar phenomenon has occurred.
The absence of a widely predicted threat failed to manifest itself, while a long-understood but dismissed one (by some) continued to pose a much greater danger worldwide.
The “widely predicted” one refers to what is called “right-wing extremism” (which the Canadian government unhelpfully calls ideologically motivated violent extremism, as if other forms of terrorism are not ideological). This scourge takes many forms—neo-Nazi, white supremacist, fascist, etc.—and has been described by many as THE number one threat we all face, especially in the West, insofar as terrorism is concerned. This “analysis” is usually accompanied by confident statements that the previous overarching menace, Islamist/jihadist terrorism (which, again, the Canadian government inaccurately calls religiously motivated violent extremism, suggesting we should worry about Mennonite suicide bombers!) is passé. Al Qaeda is allegedly dead. So is ISIS. Somalia is on the brink of eliminating Al Shabaab. Three cheers. Hip, hip… wait a minute.
When you look at actual data for 2023 a very different story presents itself.
