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Glossary of Extremism and Hate

This database provides an overview of many of the terms and individuals used by or associated with movements and groups that subscribe to and/or promote extremist or hateful ideologies.

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Harold "Hardy" Carro…

Harold "Hardy" Carroll Lloyd is a Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania-based white supremacist who leads "Church of Ben Klassen," a faction of The Creativity Movement. Lloyd has a long criminal history and has been incarcerated for a variety of... Read more

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Great Replacement / …

"The Great Replacement" conspiracy theory made significant headway into the mainstream in 2021. The theory alleges that people of color are "replacing" white people through immigration, birth rates and other economic, social and political means. While the... Read more

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E. Michael Jones

E. Michael Jones

E. Michael Jones is a longtime antisemite and traditionalist Catholic writer born in 1948. Jones promotes the idea that Jews are responsible for perpetrating attacks against the Catholic Church, as well as against moral standards, social stability... Read more

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Neo-Nazi

Neo-Nazis are one of the main segments of the white supremacist movement in the United States and many other countries. They revere Adolf Hitler and Nazi Germany and sometimes try to adopt Nazi principles to their own... Read more

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Stew Peters

Stew Peters

Stew Peters is a Florida-based antisemitic conspiracy theorist, radio show host and self-proclaimed “Christian nationalist.” He also regularly promotes anti-LGBTQ+ and white supremacist beliefs on his show and social media, and he has engaged in Holocaust denial... Read more

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Islamic State-Sinai …

Islamic State-Sinai Province (also ISIS-Sinai Province and ISIS-Sinai) is an ISIS branch and active Salafi-jihadist terrorist group operating in Egypt. The group seeks to expand ISIS’s activities in the Sinai Peninsula. Since 2014, the group has carried... Read more

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Al Shabaab

Al Shabaab is an Al Qaeda-affiliated Islamist terrorist organization based in Somalia. Al Shabaab is a brutal terrorist group which controls large swathes of the country and frequently projects attacks into neighboring countries, including Kenya and Uganda... Read more
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ISIS

ISIS (also known as ISIL, Islamic State or IS, and Daesh in Arabic) is a Salafi-jihadist group that founded an unrecognized “caliphate,” a quasi-state in Iraq and Syria in 2014 capturing large swaths of territory in a... Read more

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