[Source](https://thenewamerican.com/us/culture/that-other-jihad-rubio-warns-of-ignored-and-deadly-terror-network/) > Marco Rubio argued that Western counterterrorism has had a longstanding “blind spot” toward left-wing violence. > During a speech before 66 countries on Thursday, the Department of State head described a new transnational wave comparable in character — though not yet scale — to the revolutionary terrorism of the 1970s. > “Between 1970 and 1980, 93% of terrorist attacks in the West came from the far extremist left,” he said. “These are numbers that would shock most Americans today because we’ve been taught to believe that this kind of political violence, it simply doesn’t exist, or it’s being exaggerated. But it does exist, and we’re actually underestimating it. And our nations bear the scars to prove it.” > Rubio reflected on recent tragedies, including the shooting at a Catholic church in Minneapolis where schoolchildren were praying, the assassination of conservative activist Charlie Kirk and healthcare CEO Brian Thompson, and the multiple attempts to take President Donald Trump’s life — violence he said is inappropriately justified by many as “legitimate forms of political expression.” > He also mentioned crimes abroad, including countries such as Germany and Greece, places he said have since seen a spike in far-left violence in the last year.