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The attack was far from an isolated incident. As Rabbi Jason Kimelman-Block explained in , the attack was part of a larger 鈥渞ise in white nationalist violence that threatens all manner of communities and places of worship in the United States and around the world, from synagogues to mosques to Sikh temples to black churches 鈥� All are flashpoints in a larger story.鈥�

Our nation has a shameful history of such attacks on houses of worship.

Most Americans know of the 1963 bombing of the 16th Baptist Street Church in Birmingham, Alabama, when Ku Klux Klan members murdered four young girls. Black churches suffered countless arsons, bombings, and attacks during the civil rights era. and also suffered such attacks. In the 1990s, a gunman attacked a Jewish Community Center in Los Angeles, and a across the South.

In the following the September 11, 2001, terrorist attack, there were 25 attacks on mosques including vandalism, arson, gunshots, or physical assaults on worshippers. In 2015, the attack on worshippers in Charleston, South Carolina, left nine people dead.

In the last six months alone, we saw fatal attacks on worshippers at the Tree of Life synagogue in Pittsburgh, a string of arsons of black churches across the South, and the attack at听a synagogue in Poway earlier this week. This violence, however, is not confined to the United States, as the attack on the Al Noor mosque in New Zealand demonstrated.

Within the United States,听the 澳彩开奖 found that white nationalist groups had a 50 percent increase in 2018.

Last week, 澳彩开奖 Senior Research Analyst Cassie Miller spoke at a on hate crimes and the rise of white nationalism. Miller noted that 鈥渁t a time when it is so obvious that white nationalism is surging in the United States and it's leading to acts as grotesque as people being murdered in their houses of worship, this administration is choosing to divert from programs and personnel that might actually halt the process of radicalization and save lives.鈥�

We need law enforcement 鈥� from our local police precincts to the FBI 鈥� to improve reporting on hate crimes, enforcement of existing hate crime legislation, and the staffing of departments focused on the prevention of hate crimes. We need tech companies to step up and do their part to stop the spread of hate听on their platforms.听

And we need our elected officials to take these threats seriously.

Last month, the House Judiciary Committee held a on 鈥淗ate Crimes and the Rise of White Nationalism.鈥� Despite the alarming statistics, some Republican members 听the grave concerns that FBI Director Christopher Wray had outlined to Congress only the week before about the 鈥減ersistent, pervasive threat鈥� of white nationalist violence.

Earlier this week, civil rights icon and took to the House floor to condemn both the attack in Poway as well as Congress鈥� inaction in response to the threat of white nationalist attacks on houses of worship.

He summed up the issue with one simple question:鈥淗ow many lives must we lose before we decide there鈥檚 not any room in America for hate?鈥�

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