The Patriot Post® · Is Radical Islam a Domestic Issue?

According to the FBI’s website to teach teenagers about extremist groups, Islamic extremism is not a domestic issue. Recently, the FBI published the website, complete with flashy animation and dark graphics, to be used as a teaching tool to discourage radicalization. “[B]y blindly accepting radical ideologies,” the FBI wrote, “teens are essentially becoming the ‘puppets’ of violent extremists who simply want them to carry out their destructive mission — which often includes targeting or killing innocent people.” But the website doesn’t give a full explanation of terrorism. It may have something to do with the fact that the Obama administration refuses to correctly assess the threat of the Islamic State, even going so far as to cleanse DHS databases of Islamic terrorism connections. The FBI’s website is no different, as when it comes to the landing page explaining the types of ideologies held by domestic terrorists, the website lists anarchists, environmentalists, white supremacists, militias and abortion extremists as potential sources of terrorism. Meanwhile, the ideology that animated the attacks in Chattanooga, San Bernardino and Fort Hood — not to mention 9/11 — go unmentioned. Perhaps the landing page describing international terrorist groups could lend a clue? After all, four of the six listed groups are al-Qaida, al-Shabaab, Hezbollah and the Islamic State.