Brad Knickerbocker

About the author: Brad Knickerbocker is a staff writer for the Christian Science Monitor.

In the wake of the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks against the United States—in which terrorists bombed the World Trade Center and the Pentagon—white supremacist groups are finding it easier to recruit new members. Leaders in white power groups use the attacks as proof that the U.S. government acts on behalf of Jewish people, which is detrimental to non-Jewish Americans and American interests abroad. Experts suspect that terrorist groups in the Middle East and white supremacist groups in the United States are in contact with one another, working together against what they perceive as a common enemy: the U.S. government and Jewish people.

Hate groups around the United...