The Beatles
Mohammed Emwazi, Aine Davis, Alexanda Kotey, and El Shafee Elsheikh were four London-raised men who traveled to join the ISIS. They became infamous for their presence in ISIS beheading videos, during which they killed at least 27 ISIS captives and are thought to have held and tortured many more. Some of their hostages dubbed these men "the Beatles" and gave each a nickname corresponding to their respective musical counterpart. However in 2015, Emwazi was killed in Raqqa, Syria and the three other men have been arrested and are standing trial for the crimes they committed on behalf of ISIS. An international manhunt began in August 2014 to track down the four men after they were featured in the beheading of journalist James Foley.
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
Holy Land Foundation
The Holy Land Foundation was a Texas-based charity whose five founding officers were sentenced in May 2009 to between 15 and 65 years in prison for funneling over $12 million to Hamas.