Read original article by Tom Cahill on the Resistance Report or read the key facts below;
- “After the latest hate crime in Portland, Oregon — in which white supremacist Jeremy Christian killed Ricky Best and Taliesin Namkai-Meche on a train after they attempted to stop him from berating two Muslim women — three people have been killed by white terrorists in the last week.”
- “The other hate crime-related murder happened at the University of Maryland, when 23-year-old Richard Collins III was stabbed to death by Sean Urbanski. Collins was just commissioned as a lieutenant in the United States Army.”
- “Conversely, Zero Americans have been killed by refugees in a terrorist attack in the United States. This includes refugees from Iran, Iraq, Libya, Somalia, Sudan, Syria, and Yemen, which are the countries Trump has singled out for his Muslim travel ban.”
- “Over the last four decades, 20 out of 3.25 million refugees welcomed to the United States have been convicted of attempting or committing terrorism on U.S. soil, and only three Americans have been killed in attacks committed by refugees—all by Cuban refugees in the 1970s.”
- “Politifact gave a “mostly true” score to a claim made by Rep. Ted Lieu (D-California), in which he said the chances of being killed by a refugee were 1 in 3.6 billion (the chances of winning the Powerball lottery’s grand prize are 1 in 292.2 million).”
- “While the numbers back up the claim that the real terror threat is not from refugees, the Trump administration has been eerily silent about the growing trend of hate crimes in the United States committed by white people against people of color, particularly in the name of Trump.”
- “The Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) reported that of the 1,000+ acts of hate reported in the wake of the November 8, 2016 election, 37 percent of those incidents“directly referenced either President-elect Donald Trump, his campaign slogans, or his infamous remarks about sexual assault.”
- “Among the more high-profile acts of white terror committed by Americans against people of color since Trump’s election include murders by 51-year-old Adam Purinton of Kansas, and 28-year-old James Jackson, of Baltimore.”
- “Purinton shot and killed Srinivas Kuchibhotla, an Indian-born technology worker, at a bar in Olathe, Kansas, shouting “get out of my country”before pulling the trigger. Jackson, who stabbed 66-year-old Timothy Caughman with an 18-inch blade, drove from Baltimore to New York City for the express purpose of killing black people and getting media coverage for it.”
