WASHINGTON — In the 14 years since Al Qaeda carried out attacks on New
York and the Pentagon, extremists have regularly executed smaller lethal
assaults in the United States, explaining their motives in online
manifestoes or social media rants.

But the breakdown of extremist ideologies behind those attacks may come
as a surprise. Since Sept. 11, 2001, nearly twice as many people have
been killed by white supremacists, antigovernment fanatics and other
non-Muslim extremists than by radical Muslims: 48 have been killed by
extremists who are not Muslim, compared with 26 by self-proclaimed
jihadists, according to a count by New America, a Washington research
center.

The slaying of nine African-Americans in a Charleston, S.C., church last
week, with an avowed white supremacist charged with their murders, was a
particularly savage case. But it is only the latest in a string of
lethal attacks by people espousing racial hatred, hostility to
government and theories such as those of the “sovereign citizen”
movement, which denies the legitimacy of most statutory law. The
assaults have taken the lives of police officers, members of racial or
religious minorities and random civilians.

Non-Muslim extremists have carried out 19 such attacks since Sept. 11,
according to the latest count, compiled by David Sterman, a New America
program associate, and overseen by Peter Bergen, a terrorism expert. By
comparison, seven lethal attacks by Islamic militants have taken place
in the same period.

If such numbers are new to the public, they are familiar to police
officers. A survey to be published this week asked 382 police and
sheriff’s departments nationwide to rank the three biggest threats from
violent extremism in their jurisdiction. About 74 percent listed
antigovernment violence, while 39 percent listed “Al Qaeda-inspired”
violence, according to the researchers, Charles Kurzman of the
University of North Carolina and David Schanzer of Duke University.

“Law enforcement agencies around the country have told us the threat
from Muslim extremists is not as great as the threat from right-wing
extremists,” said Dr. Kurzman, whose study is to be published by the
Triangle Center on Terrorism and Homeland Security and the Police
Executive Research Forum.

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