So what are they counting as a right wing terrorist attack, anyone with any ideology or someone who is screaming a hate filled tirade, or leaves a letter saying they are doing such for hate? Or someone a member or stating they were acting as a member of a hate group? From your article:
(Although a variety of left wing militants and environmental extremists have carried out violent attacks for political reasons against property and individuals since 9/11, none have been linked to a lethal attack, according to research by the New America Foundation.)
Moreover, since 9/11 none of the more than 200 individuals indicted or convicted in the United States of some act of jihadist terrorism have acquired or used chemical or biological weapons or their precursor materials, while 13 individuals motivated by right wing extremist ideology, one individual motivated by left-wing extremist ideology, and two with idiosyncratic beliefs, used or acquired such weapons or their precursors.
Page is not, of course, the only right wing extremist to have used lethal violence to achieve political ends. In 2009, for instance, Shawna Forde, Albert Gaxiola, and Jason Bush raided a house in Arizona, killing Raul Flores and his daughter Brisenia. The three attackers sought to use the burglary to finance their anti-immigration vigilante group, Minutemen American Defense. Forde and Bush were convicted and sentenced to death. Gaxiola was sentenced to life in prison.
So anyone affiliated with any right wing extremist group is guilty of a hate crime while anyone who is affiliated with a Jihadist group is not always counted? Is that what I have just read?
So the
Beltway Snipers don't count?
Prosecutors also had to prove either that he was both directly responsible for Mr. Meyers's death and had killed another person within a three-year period or that the killing of Mr. Meyers was part of an act of terrorism. The jury accepted both theories.
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/04/23/national/23sniper.html
Beltway sniper attacks - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Major Hasan does not count even though he was communicating with a known terrorist and screaming "Allah Akbar" while killing 13 and shotting 40 more?
Mohammed Ali Alayed does not count after going through a religious revival at a Mosque and killing his Jewish friend?
Mohammed Reza Taheri-azar does not count? Trying to kill 9 by mowing them down in a SUV for Jihad even though he said "I was aiming to follow in
the footsteps of one of my role models, Mohamed Atta, one of the 9/11 hijackers, who obtained a doctorate degree".
Mohammed Reza Taheri-azar SUV attack - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Michael Julius Ford rampage shooing saying the killings were "Allah's choice" was not motivated by extremism?
I don't know what happened to him yesterday. It was like everything changed," Khali said. "He told me that Allah was going to make a choice and it was going to be good and told me people at his job was making fun of his religion and he didn't respect that."
Shooting spree baffles those close to 22-year-old Ford - The Denver Post
Naveed Afzal Haq shot six women, one fatally, at the Jewish Federation of Greater Seattle.
Naveed Afzal Haq, had selected his target by researching "something Jewish" on the Internet
Seattle Jewish Federation shooting - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Sulejman Talović ...Trolly Square Shootings?
Abdulhakim Mujahid Muhammad? Muslim saying he wanted to kill as many American Soldiers as he could stating that Al-Qaida sent him?
2009 Little Rock recruiting office shooting - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
A hell of a lot more than 21. I could continue to list many more if you like. It wont matter though one will find a way to convince themselves these people were not extremists as well.