Imagine That
The terrorist threat in the UK is not only apparently present but it’s decidedly white.
Police smash white supremacist terror plot to poison ethnic minorities with ricin
– for some strange reasons there’s not a lot of talk about this in the blogosphere, in fact if you want to find it you have to actually go looking. I can’t help but put forward the theory that if the headline read “Police smash Arab terror plot to poison Britons” the reaction would be somewhat different.
[ h/t Jacks Newswatch ]
I’m gone for the day – play nice ‘eh…..
The reason the reaction would be different is because it is a rare piece of news by the kind of organization that is also very rare. White supremacist groups are absolutely dwarfed in size and scope to fundamentalist Islamic groups. The reason people aren’t likely inspired to start blogging about this incident is because nobody is surprised that a group as silly as one that believes it can reinspire the white race to come together to relive the good old days of Hitler, is decidedly on a level of stupidity so intense that we’d only blog about it if they actually succeeded in carrying out a terrorist plot. After all, drooling idiots can’t be terribly difficult to catch.
That’s your opinion Raphael, and truth be known it doesn’t actually surprise me.
My opinion is that if this had been a couple of dark skinned foreigners (”drooling idiots” or not) plotting to poison the water supply the Islamophobic reaction in the blogosphere and talk radio would be so far off the hook that even the cable news networks would have difficulity finding enough words to describe it.
– tell me I’m wrong.
In the US, the number of Islamic terrorists is dwarfed by the number of white supremacists–and I’m not referring to the “polite” ones like Sean Hannity and Rush Limbaugh either.
Check out:
http://www.splcenter.org/intel/intelreport/article.jsp?aid=1027
@stageleft – You’re not wrong. But if more white supremacist groups were caught in incidents like this, you’d see more outrage on the internet. It’s a case for volume.