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    Dallas Shooting: Time to Hold Nation of Islam Accountable (Louis Farrakhan)

    Dallas Shooting: Time to Hold Nation of Islam Accountable

    It is likely that the shooter was partially radicalized online, following extremist groups advocating violence including the Nation of Islam.

    BY RYAN MAURO Mon, July 11, 2016



    Louis Farrakan, leader of the Nation of Islam, preaches "retaliation" against white people.
    "Don’t let this white man tell you that violence is wrong," he says.


    Micah Johnson, the perpetrator of the shooting of police officers in Dallas, Texas, is now suspected of having been radicalized online (at least partially), as he followed anti-police extremist groups online, including the jihad-supporting Nation of Islam, whose leader has been encouraging violence against police with a heightened fury since the Ferguson controversy.

    Only hours before the attack, Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan was publishing racist endorsements of violence. He preached, “When you are willing and not afraid anymore to pay the price for freedom—don’t let this white man tell you that violence is wrong…He’s doing it as we speak, and then he has the nerve to come and tell us that violence and hatred won’t get it.” He also said that white people are “worthy to be hated.”

    Around the time of the Ferguson riots, Farrakhan preached about the “law of retaliation” in regards to police, encouraged followers to “die for something” and said parents should teach their children how to fight and throw Molotov cocktails. He threatened, “We’ll tear this goddamn country apart!”

    In front of 2,000 attendees in Maryland, he happily proclaimed, “They know an explosion is going to come.” The reaction was not shock or a worried silence. It was cheers.

    Farrakhan has reportedly told African-Americans to rise up against the U.S. government as the Palestinians have risen up against Israel. In August, he justified the terrorism of Hamas against Israel and compared it to the struggle of blacks in America.

    Micah Johnson is not known to have been a Muslim but non-Muslims can still be impacted by Islamist incitement that goes beyond reasonable discourse about police and racism and into dehumanization and advocacy for violence. Proof of this intersection comes in the form of a Facebook cartoon using ISIS propaganda to support killing police that Micah Johnson wrote a rant under.

    He also was a member of the New Black Panther Party, an extremist group that is not exclusively Islamic but formed as a split from the Nation of Islam. He also “liked” an organization called the P. Newton Gun Club, run by an official of a group named the People’s New Black Panther Party. That official reacted to the Dallas attacks by saying, “Micah just got five of the bastards.”

    Anti-police bigotry is part of the radicalization process for different kinds of extremist ideologies and Islamism is one of them. Islamism benefits because the ideology sees secular-democracies as inherently unjust and oppressive, a commonality with those who reflexively demonize U.S. government agencies and dangerously paint police as bloodthirsty.

    The Islamic State recognized this and tried to spin the Ferguson riots to its advantage. Other non-violent Islamist groups also saw it as an opportunity to position themselves favorably.

    At the time, I discussed the intersection between anti-police bigotry and radical ideologies including Islamism on FOX News Channel:



    It’s time for the Nation of Islam and groups like it to be held accountable for the inevitable results of their incitement. A starting point would be denying government financial aid like farm subsidiesthat have been awarded to Nation of Islam-linked entities.

    Non-profit organizations that explicitly endorse criminal activity that directly harms others, such as violence against police, don’t deserve their non-profit statuses.

    Legal professionals should also be consulted with to discuss possible prosecution under laws related to treason, sedition and subversive activities.

    When you counter anti-police extremism, you target a key part of the Islamist worldview. When you challenge Islamist propaganda, you challenge an ideology that promotes anti-police bigotry. The two are linked.

    Dallas Shooting: Time to Hold Nation of Islam Accountable


    Ryan Mauro is ClarionProject.org’s national security analyst, a fellow with Clarion Project and an adjunct professor of homeland security. Mauro is frequently interviewed on top-tier television and radio.
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    Was Dallas cop killer Micah Johnson radicalized online?

    By Drew Griffin, David Fitzpatrick and Curt Devine, CNN
    Updated 1:21 AM ET, Mon July 11, 2016

    WATCH THE VIDEO REPORT OF CHIEF BROWN AT LINK

    (CNN)The message was clear. One day before Dallas police officers were gunned down, the African American Defense League was telling anyone reading its Facebook page it was time to act.

    The message delivered at 9:47 a.m. Wednesday came after news broke of yet another killing of a black man by a white police officer. Philando Castile was killed in the front seat of his car after being pulled over for a broken taillight outside Minneapolis.

    The message from the African American Defense League left little up for interpretation.

    "The Pig has shot and killed Alton Sterling in Baton Rouge, Louisiana!: You and I know what we must do and I don't mean marching, making a lot of noise, or attending conventions. We must "Rally The Troops!" It is time to visit Louisiana and hold a barbeque. The highlight of our occasion will be to sprinkle Pigs Blood!"

    The apparent author of that post, Mauricelm-Lei Millere, has so far not responded to CNN's request for comment. But from his Facebook page, CNN has discovered the killer of five Dallas police officers had visited and "liked" the AADL's site.

    Micah Johnson's online history shows he followed dozens of sites that focused on injustices committed on the black community. He visited and liked several websites dedicated to Black Lives Matter and the New Black Panthers, along with the Nation of Islam and the Black Riders Liberation Party, two groups the Southern Poverty Law Center considers hate groups.

    One friend who spoke to CNN said Johnson was obsessed with the plight of blacks in the United States and would repeatedly watch the now 25-year-old videotaped beating of Rodney King.

    "He was an expert on the history of the Martin Luther King assassination," the friend said. "And he studied Malcolm X."

    The friend, who did not want to be named, also said Johnson had issues controlling his temper. "He was a good black man with a little bit of an anger problem."

    Those who study the online radicalization of terrorists are seeing a similar pattern in the story of Johnson, a young man who may have been searching for identity and internalizing the hate and anger he was reading online.

    "Extremist groups generally use propaganda in the hopes of influencing people," said J.M. Berger of the George Washington University Program on Extremism. "They are trying to encourage lone wolf attacks where someone will carry out an attack in the name of the ideology they believe in but not have any connection to the organization that is promoting the ideology."

    Berger said it's a pattern that began with white supremacist groups 30 or 40 years ago. Terrorist groups like ISIS have taken the tactic online to social media. Now there is a concern groups considered black nationalist hate groups are employing the same tactics, and possibly inciting the same lone wolf style of violence.

    "It's not clear that they are pursuing that as an organized strategy. But certainly they are putting out incendiary content and if someone who is inclined toward violence is reading that, they may fixate on that content as a reason to take action," Berger said.

    One of those incendiary messages was posted then quickly deleted by the African American Defense League Thursday: "...calling on the gangs across the nation! Attack everything in blue..."

    We may never know what, if any, online messages inspired or incited Johnson to attack Dallas police, but Berger said it's not insignificant that he showed affinity for this material.

    On Thursday, the FBI sent a nationwide bulletin to law enforcement warning of online messaging that could inspire attacks against police. In the several-page warning, the FBI showed violent messaging that included the graphic depiction of a police officer's throat being cut.

    Tom Fuentes, a former associate director with the FBI, said the messages and those behind them should be treated the same way the federal government investigates ISIS.

    "It's no different than the ISIS propaganda that goes out," Fuentes said. "And the question

    for law enforcement is where do you draw the line between free speech and something else? If a message is espousing someone to take action, even if they inspire one guy to strike out, isn't that enough?"

    Fuentes said the FBI keeps track of hate groups online with the help of the Southern Poverty Law Center. But because the groups are mostly run by U.S. citizens, the FBI has larger barriers to what and how it can monitor groups protected by the right to free speech.
    Fuentes said it's a fine line and "some of these groups seem to be walking right up to that line."

    After the shootings and the death of Johnson, one of those Facebook sites devoted to the teachings of Elijah Mohammed took a page form the online playbook of ISIS and made the Dallas cop killer a martyr.

    The site posted Johnson's photo with the message, "R.I.P." for the man who "stood up to injustice."

    http://www.cnn.com/2016/07/10/us/mic...alized-online/

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    Hours Before Officers Were Gunned Down in Dallas, Louis Farrakhan Posted This Shocking Message of Racism and Violence

    Jul. 8, 2016 1:20pm
    Jason Howerton


    Hours before gunmen opened fire on police officers in downtown Dallas, killing five cops and injuring seven others, Louis Farrakhan posted a message of hatred and violence against white people on social media.


    (Twitter video)

    Dallas Police Chief David Brown said on Friday that one of the suspected shooters, Micah Xavier Johnson, told officers he was angry about recent police shootings and wanted to kill white people.

    “When you are willing and not afraid anymore to pay the price for freedom — don’t let this white man tell you that violence is wrong,” Farrakhan said. “Every damn thing that he got, he got it by being violent — killing people, raping and robbing and murdering. He’s doing it as we speak, and then he has the nerve to come and tell us that violence and hatred won’t get it. Don’t buy that!”

    Speaking about white people as one entity, Farrakhan proclaimed, “He is worthy to be hated.” He also claimed that “God hates,” and man is no better than God.

    The shocking video was posted on Twitter at around 5 p.m. on Thursday. Watch below (Warning: Disturbing content):



    Brown blamed “snipers” for the deadly attack, but it was unclear how many shooters were involved. Authorities initially said three suspects were in custody and a fourth dead, killed by a robot-delivered bomb in a parking garage where he had exchanged fire with officers. Hours later, officials were vague and would not discuss details.

    The shooting began about 8:45 p.m. Thursday while hundreds of people were gathered to protest the killings in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, and suburban St. Paul, Minnesota. Brown told reporters that snipers fired “ambush-style” on the officers. Two civilians also were wounded.

    The Associated Press contributed to this report.
    http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2016...-and-violence/

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