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On Wednesday during NBC’s special rolling coverage of the Islamic terror attack in New Orleans, correspondent intelligence community tool Ken Dilanian chose not once or twice, but three times to tie Islamic extremism to “extremist ideologies” like “far-right extremism.”
The most notable came during NBC Nightly News and anchor Lester Holt — who was the only network evening newscast anchor working a rare holiday — asking a simple question: “What does this tell us about the state of ISIS as we launch into 2025?”
Sure, Dilanian started by saying “the FBI director and others, Lester, have saying for some time that the threat from ISIS-inspired terrorist attacks is greater than it’s been for a long time, particular post-October 7 in light of the war in Gaza.”
But he shortly thereafter lumped the boogeymen on the “far-right” in with the Islamists:
You also have a situation where political violence in the United States is increasingly a risk and more and more people are turning to extremist ideologies whether does ISIS or whether it’s people who don’t like healthcare executives or whether it’s far right extremism, so you have a confluence of risk factors here, but what counterterrorism officials are saying is they are very concerned.
