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Hello, Justice Department

If we are being honest the ideology most aligned with Islamic extremists is the statist extremism of the progressive American Left, who just happen to be funding this study.

The Department of Justice is concentrating on “far-right” groups in a new study of social media usage aimed at combatting (sic) violent extremism.

The Justice Department’s National Institute of Justice (NIJ) awarded Michigan State University $585,719 for the study, which was praised by Eric Holder, the former attorney general, earlier this year.

“There is currently limited knowledge of the role of technology and computer mediated communications (CMCs), such as Facebook and Twitter, in the dissemination of messages that promote extremist agendas and radicalize individuals to violence,” according to the NIJ grant. “The proposed study will address this gap through a series of qualitative and quantitative analyses of posts from various forms of CMC used by members of both the far-right and Islamic extremist movements.”

It is worth noting, in case the Justice Department is reading this, that ‘Far right’ groups in the US and Islamic extremists want ideologically polar-opposite ends. Local control versus centralized control. Personal freedom and limited government versus top down tyranny and a single dominant worldview.

And the left almost universally supports violence to advance its agenda, as do Islamist extremists, whereas the right believes in the natural right to use force in defense when attacked.

So. this is just more of your taxpayer dollars “well-spent” on white tower-liberals to promote and advance another left wing narrative.

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