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The new head of MI5, the UK's domestic security service, has warned that nearly 30% of the major terror plots it has disrupted at a late stage since 2017 have been from far right extremists. Ken McCallum said that the pan-European threat from the far right was increasing with "bitty, but meaningful international connectivity."
In his first engagement with reporters since taking the job in March, McCallum said far-right extremism was not on "the same scale as Islamist extremist terrorism.
But it is growing: of the 27 late-stage terrorist attack plots in Great Britain disrupted by MI5 and counter-terror policing since 2017, eight have been right-wing extremist."
It doesn't take a genius to figure out where the other 70% of terror plots originate. Muslims make up only 6% of UK residents, and have accounted for all of the horrific terrorist attacks that I can remember since the subway bombing on 7/7/2005. What is it with the media and now intelligence/law enforcement's obsession with far right extremism?