White Supremacist communities, white women's role as mothers is seen as key to the aim of creating a white majority.
92. JTAC assesses, however, that the accessibility of the online space, coupled with the growing trend towards low-sophistication attacks, will lower barriers to terrorist attacks regardless of gender, and in relation to XRW-affiliated women ***.[1] Homeland Security Group confirmed that the statistics show that ERWT is "heavily skewed towards men" with CTP confirming that from their policing statistics the data showed that 93% of the people they are dealing with in the ERWT space are male.[2]
93. The Head of Counter Terrorism Policing (CTP) told the Committee that in "criminological terms that [it] is not unusual" to see a higher percentage of men in the ERWT space as "violence [is] a peculiarly male obsession" and that the "actual violent acts are committed mostly by men".[3] The Director General for Homeland Security Group also said that they had started to see a couple of "vocal female, significant female voices out there", and that there was potential for the proportion of women involved to grow, as has happened in "other threat areas, so it is an important point for [HMG to be] looking at any potential trajectory and getting ahead".[4]
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