Ramadan Abdullah Shallah
Ramadan Shallah was the leader of the Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ) group from 1995-2018. Under his leadership, PIJ was responsible for numerous attacks on Israeli citizens and in 2007 he was placed on the FBI's Most Wanted Terrorists list. In April 2018 he was succeeded by Ziyad al Nakhalah. He died in 2020 after suffering from a long illness.
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
Al Qaeda in the Arab…
Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP) is an Al Qaeda affiliate group based in the Arabian Peninsula and was formed in January 2009. It operates primarily in Yemen and occasionally recruits from Saudi Arabia. Of all... Read more