Rep. Peter King isn't buying a
New York Times assessment that since 9/11 "white supremacists, anti-government fanatics and other non-Muslim extremists" have been more dangerous to the country than Islamist radicals.
"I totally disregard what The New York Times said," the New York Republican said Sunday
on ABC's "This Week."
He pointed to the Boston Marathon bombing where four were killed and almost 300 wounded by radical Islamists.
"The fact that Eric Holder, who was a pretty liberal attorney general, said what kept him awake at night was the lone wolf Islamist terrorist would carry out an attack" was proof itself, King said. He pointed out that interceptions of terror plots have actually prevented the deaths of hundreds or thousands of Americans.
Since al-Qaida’s attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, non-Muslim extremists have launched 19 attacks, killing 48 people, while seven attacks by "self-proclaimed jihadists" have claimed the lives of 26 people, according to the Times.
The slayings earlier this month of nine black people worshiping at a Charleston, South Carolina, church by a 21-year-old self-avowed white supremacist represents the latest lethal attack "by people espousing racial hatred, hostility to government and theories," according to the Times.
"Everything should be investigated. Everything should be stopped," he said. "But to compare these deranged white supremacists with an organized international terrorist movement, that's The New York Times at its worst."
Newsmax writer Melissa Clyne contributed to this report.
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