The ISIS-inspired attack in New Orleans underscores how extremism online and political divisions at home have created “a perfect storm” for radicalization in America, experts say, with law enforcement struggling to track an increasingly fractured threat. And all that is playing into a perfect storm of factors that are leading to an increase in radicalization.”According to the federal government, the main terror threat to the U.S. now is lone actors inspired by extremism ideology. But sometimes, as in the New Orleans attack, the driving ideology is radical Islamism. Berger, an extremism researcher with the Center on Terrorism, Extremism, and Counterterrorism at the Middlebury Institute of International Studies, said in an email. That shift had the center’s vice president, Oren Segal, worried even before the New Orleans attack, he said.

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