The last decade has seen major changes in the American radical right. What was once a world largely dominated by a few relatively well-organized groups has become a scene populated by large numbers of smaller, weaker groups, with only a handful led by the kind of charismatic chieftains that characterized the 1990s.
On June 13, 1992, President George H.W. Bush joined the leaders of 177 other nations in adopting the United Nations’ Agenda 21, a non-binding plan for sustainable “smart growth” in the face of an ever-more populous world.
Training seminars put on by a former FBI agent in February have spotlighted what many see as a growing effort by Islamophobes to influence law enforcement and cast all Muslims as a threat to America.
As antigovernment “sovereign citizens” continue to defy the law across the country, government officials are fighting back.
A New York man who told police he intended to kill “as many Muslims and Arabs as possible” faces a maximum sentence of life in prison for allegedly firebombing an Islamic mosque and a Hindu temple on New Year’s Day.
Glenn Spencer, the racist, anti-Semitic head of American Border Patrol — an anti-immigrant group that uses high-tech sensors and infrared video cameras mounted on model airplanes to monitor the Arizona-Mexico border — had a good run of publicity earlier this year.
Three months after the U.S. Justice Department alleged that Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio’s office had violated the civil rights of Latinos in Arizona, the self-described “Toughest Sheriff in America” responded with brash defiance.
Several incidents lead to arrests of Muslims in the U.S.
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