With the increase in racist crimes, the United States faces the specter of domestic terrorism

Washington-Sana

With the increase in racist crimes and the spread of manifestations of discrimination and discrimination on racial grounds, fears are increasing in American circles at the highest levels of the exacerbation of the problem of domestic terrorism and its transformation into the most urgent threat to the security of the United States.

FBI Director Christopher Wray revealed before the Senate yesterday, according to American media, that the number of domestic terrorism cases that the office is dealing with has reached record numbers since early 2020, likening the matter to an “explosion” in the FBI, especially in cases related to racist crimes.

Ray explained that the number of domestic terrorism cases in the United States has doubled since the spring of 2020 from about 1,000 to 2,700 investigations, which prompted the FBI to increase the number of its personnel to pursue cases, noting that the bulk of racially motivated violent extremism that the FBI tracks is related to the tendency of “supremacy.” The white race.

Perhaps the events that accompanied the end of the term of former US President Donald Trump and his successor, Joe Biden, and the scenes of storming the Capitol building last January, and the involvement of extremist right-wing groups in it, were the biggest evidence of the exacerbation of the threats of domestic terrorism in the United States, in addition to the crimes of hate and racial discrimination that took an upward trend. seriously in American society over the past few years.

The British Guardian newspaper, in a new analysis, saw that the repercussions of the alleged American war on international terrorism were not limited to the destruction of several countries around the world, but rather to the spread of domestic terrorism on American soil itself, considering that the real terrorist threat that Washington must fear stems from right-wing groups Extremism inside the United States, whose presence and role has increased 20 years after the attacks of September 11th.

Basma Kanon