From Harper's Index:

[thewayne]

Number of refugees arrested in the United States on terrorism-related charges since 2001: 10

Number of natural-born U.S. citizens: 320

Number of people killed by political or religious extremists on U.S. soil since September 11, 2001: 93

Percentage of these deaths attributable to far-right-wing political extremism: 52

Comments

[porsupah.livejournal.com]

For clarity, I assume the second line means the same as the first, but for US citizens?

It's a fairly stark example of how a tragedy, in large part of our own making, gets flipped over to make fodder for the same hawks. I suppose the difference now is that Syrians are making their way to Europe (horrors!), rather than the millions of displaced Iraqis, who could find refuge closer by.

Is there any point at which conservatives will balk at blaming or outright demonising the most vulnerable?

[thewayne.livejournal.com]

I also found that second line unclear, I eventually interpreted it the same way as you.

I came across an interesting observation in an article on Salon:
Modern conservatism is built on a base of protecting men's dominance over women, white people's dominance over people of color and rich people's dominance over everyone else, but it's generally considered impolite to say so bluntly. Instead, it's standard for Republicans to pretend that policies obviously designed to screw people over are meant to help.

I've had the opinion that the unwritten motto of the Republican Party is "I've got mine, screw you." I think the line from Salon is a better explanation of the same concept.