Though terrorism is also defined by the non-combatant or civilian status of its victims, terrorist attacks and hate crimes are both partly defined by the mental states of the perpetrators.
In the one case we have the intent to modify political behavior through terror spread by violence.
In the other, infliction of harm out of hate.
In so many cases a single act is both that the public is deluded and mistakes the one for the other.
Both, like the post-Civil War violence of the Klan to keep the Freedmen out of politics.
Or like these.
Meet three people targeted for being 'atheists', and a Muslim leader condemning their beliefs
Politically motivated lies don't help.
Lots of people lie about ordinary hate crimes by whites, for example, branding those who recognize these are not terrorism as racists.
On the other hand, how many times have crimes by Muslims, or even nations, been mislabeled as terrorism though the supposed political effect was never really expected to materialize, the attacks being carried out all the same out of hate?
Is this a hate crime mislabeled as terrorism?
Canada rail plotters get life in prison
"Send 'em a message" is not enough to make any attack a case of terrorism.
That would make lawful reprisal impossible and nonexistent, contrary to the fact.
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