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https://www.mpac.org/blog/policy-analysis/dhs-commits-to-addressing-white-supremacist-violence.php

On September 20, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) unveiled the Strategic Framework for Countering Terrorism and Targeted Violence at an event co-hosted by the Heritage Foundation and the Brookings Institution. There, Acting Secretary of Homeland Security Kevin McAleenan spoke about DHS’s approach to “an evolving threat environment” which seeks “to incite violence in our nation’s youth, disenfranchised, and disaffected, in order to attack their fellow citizens and fray at the seams of our diverse social fabric.” The event marked the first time a cabinet level official of the Trump Administration addressed the threat of white supremacist terrorism. DHS’s new Strategic Framework is a useful first step toward addressing this evolving threat to our national security.

This past August, we released our white paper titled “The White Supremacist Threat to America.”

https://www.mpac.org/publications/policy-papers/the-white-supremacist-threat-to-america.php

The paper offers five recommendations for federal agencies responding to white supremacist terrorism, including mandates for greater internal research and oversight of FBI and DOJ practice. We are committed to ensuring that the recommendations in the paper are part of any federal response to white supremacist terrorism.

We have also been working to ensure mosque safety and security through our presence on the interfaith task force convened by Los Angeles Councilman Paul Koretz and the DHS Task Force on the Prevention of Targeted Violence Against Houses of Worship. Through these engagements, we are committed to making sure that policies and practices at the federal, state and local levels take into account concerns of American Muslim communities.

https://wisconsinmuslimjournal.org/the-white-supremacist-threat-to-america-an-important-publication-by-mpac/

A White Paper recently published by the Muslim Public Affairs Council (MPAC) reveals a stark difference between the actual cause of much of the mass violence currently roiling the United States and the labels the Trump administration chooses to apply to it.

MPAC was established in 1988 and has offices in Washington D.C. and Los Angeles. It released the White Paper, titled “The White Supremacist Threat to America,” on July 31, just days before Patrick Crusius shot 22 people, most of them Hispanics, at a Wal-Mart in El Paso, Texas.

In a manifesto posted on 8chan immediately prior to the shooting, Crusius said he acted in response to a “Hispanic invasion” of the United States.

Salam Al-Marayati, president of MPAC, said that “for too long” white supremacist violence has been considered “a series of isolated incidents.”

https://www.mpac.org/blog/updates/countering-white-supremacy-forum-with-rep.-adam-schiff.php