White supremacists and extremist militias are greater threat to USthan ISIS'

While presidential candidates like Donald Trump are calling for a blanket ban on Muslims entering the country, law enforcement agencies say racist, anti-government and religious fundamentalist groups are the ones they truly fear

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Militias: Militant organisations are on the rise

Far-right militias and racist organisations like the Ku Klux Klan are a greater threat to America than ISIS, it has been reported.

While presidential candidates like Donald Trump are calling for a blanket ban on Muslims entering the country, law enforcement agencies say racist, anti-government and religious fundamentalist groups are the ones they truly fear.

Since 2002, militias have killed more people in the United States than jihadis have.

Figures from Washington think tank New America, Islamists launched nine attacks that murdered 45, while the right-wing extremists struck 18 times, leaving 48 dead, reports Newsweek.

A survey of 382 law enforcement agencies by the Triangle Center on Terrorism and Homeland Security found that: "Law enforcement agencies in the United States consider anti-government violent extremists, not radicalised Muslims, to be the most severe threat of political violence that they face.

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"74 per cent reported anti-government extremism as one of the top three terrorist threats in their jurisdiction; 39 per cent listed extremism connected with al Qaeda or like-minded terrorist organisations."

In 2008, according to the Southern Poverty Law Center, there were just 42 militia groups. Now there are 276.

It is believed the rise is down to the financial collapse in 1997 and the presidency of Barack Obama.

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The dangers of racist killers were horrifically illustrated on June 17, 2015, when Dylann Roof was arrested and charged with gunning down nine people at the historic black Emmanuel AME Church in Charleston, South Carolina.

According to one of the victims, Roof said: "You rape our women, and you’re taking over our country. And you have to go," during the shooting.

Roof had posted a racist manifesto and also posted pictures on his website and Facebook featuring white supremacist imagery, including the Confederate battle flag, patches of the Apartheid South African flag, and a T-shirt featuring the number "88," which is often used as a symbol for “HH” - or "Heil Hitler.”

Source http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/world-news/white-supremacists-extremist-militias-greater-7310236