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According to a 2017 report by the U.S. Government Accountability Office [1] "of the 85 violent extremist incidents that resulted in death since September 12, 2001, right-wing violent extremist groups were responsible for 62 (73 percent) while radical Islamist violent extremists were responsible for 23 (27 percent). The total number of fatalities is about the same for far right-wing violent extremists and radical Islamist violent extremists over the approximately 15-year period (106 and 119, respectively). However, 41 percent of the deaths attributable to radical Islamist violent extremists occurred in a single event—an attack on the Pulse nightclub in Orlando, Florida in 2016."

In 2018, most ideologically motivated murders in the United States of America were linked to right-wing extremism [2].

As of 2020, right-wing terrorism accounted for the majority of terrorist attacks and plots in the US[3] and has killed more people in the continental United States since the September 11 attacks than Islamic terrorism [4].

[1] https://www.gao.gov/assets/690/683984.pdf

[2] https://www.adl.org/murder-and-extremism-2018

[3] https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/jun/27/us-far-right-v...

[4] https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2019/08/right-wing-terro...



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