A new application of a label?

A reader from Cleveland writes: It was a subtle change, and you may have missed it.  But I suspect it will be significant.  Until yesterday, the term “domestic terrorist” was used mostly to describe misanthropic white Americans who lean right.  Apparently, now Kuwaiti-born ISIS-inspired Muslim radicals are also domestic terrorists.  Who knew?  According to the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC), abortion clinic bombers, white separatists, tax protestors, sovereign citizen movements, and right-wing militias have been held up as examples of domestic terrorist threats for over 30 years.  But with the exception of the Oklahoma City Bombing and a few abortion clinic bombings, the existential threat posed by paunchy white guys from Idaho never materialized. The SPLC is generally considered the leading non-governmental authority on domestic terror and hate groups in the U.S.  While they do not have a category for Muslim hate groups in...(Read Full Post)