Ahmed Yassin
Ahmed Yassin was the co-founder of Hamas alongside Abdel Aziz Rantisi. Yassin served as the group's spiritual leader until he was killed by the Israeli military on March 22, 2004. Yassin encouraged Hamas's campaign of suicide bombing and martyrdom against Israel and asserted that the entirety of its territory belonged to Palestine. He also frequently conflated Jews and Israelis in his violent rhetoric and encouraged the targeting of Israeli civilians. His killing was internationally condemned and his funeral procession was attended by 200,000 Palestinian mourners.
Other terms tagged with Islamist
Hate Group
An organization whose goals and activities are primarily or substantially based on a shared antipathy towards people of one or more other different races, religions, ethnicities/nationalities/national origins, genders, and/or sexual identities. The mere presence of bigoted members... Read more
Colleyville Synagogu…
On January 15, 2022, a gunman entered Congregation Beth Israel in Colleyville, Texas, during services, taking three congregants and a rabbi as hostages. The standoff ended more than ten hours later with all hostages released, unharmed, and... Read more
Aafia Siddiqui
Siddiqui is a Pakistani woman who studied neuroscience at Brandeis and MIT in the 1990s and returned to Pakistan in 2003. She allegedly worked as a courier and financier for Al Qaeda. She was taken into custody... Read more
Black flags
Black flags are inspired by descriptions of the Prophet Muhammad's battle flag, which was reportedly a black flag with white lettering on it. Therefore, many Islamist extremist groups adopt various interpretations of this image to use as... Read more