The ammo conspiracy first bubbled up from the extremist corners of the Web and infected Capitol Hill some time ago.
Some people who study right-wing militia groups and those who align themselves with the so-called Patriot movement said Mr. Loughner's comments on subjects like the American currency and the Constitution, which he posted online in various video clips, were strikingly similar in language and tone to the voices of the Internet's more paranoid, extremist corners.
Sadly for Pakistan the assault confirms a worsening pattern of violence, with Quetta a known corner for extremist hide-outs, including the senior leadership of Afghanistan's Taliban.By contrast, India's flourishing capital has been spared a big terrorist incident for the past three years.
But if a certain group of polygamous religious extremists in a lonely corner of southern Utah are to be believed, this Wednesday the walls will split open and fall when one of their leaders, Lyle Jeffs, appears before the judge in a major fraud case, according to former followers of his sect.
As the election nears, their ads are filled with images of ISIL terrorists, Ebola viruses, Secret Service breaches, and "porous" borders through which knife-wielding Muslim extremists are surely infiltrating every corner of our society.
The terrorists' fondest hope is that "they" will expand to include countries inhibited and ultimately paralyzed by the fear (or the power) of their own Islamic extremists (Pakistan, Saudi Arabia); countries where corners of "the street" exulted in the sight of the falling towers (the Palestinian territories, Egypt); and, finally, the whole of the Arab if not the Islamic world.
So the goal may be to paint the G.O.P. into a corner, making Republicans look like intransigent extremists — which they are.
A stampede is not expected.In another shadowy corner of Britain's political landscape, a different extremist group is preparing for battle with the law.
ISIS transformed the world of jihadism by recruiting tens of thousands of followers from five continents faster, in larger numbers, and from further corners of the Earth than any other modern extremist group.
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