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GLOSSARY OF EXTREMISM AND HATE

Mullah Mohammed Omar

Mullah Mohammed Omar (1960-2013) was the founder of the Taliban. He was born in Khakrez, Afghanistan in 1960. Starting in 1994, the Taliban began to seize large parts of Afghanistan, and Mullah Omar was appointed as head... Read more

People Islamist

GLOSSARY OF EXTREMISM AND HATE

Najibullah Zazi

Najibullah Zazi is an Afghan-American who drove from his home in Colorado to New York City on September 9, 2009 with the intention of detonating explosives above the New York City subway during rush hour as part... Read more

People Islamist

GLOSSARY OF EXTREMISM AND HATE

Nikolas Cruz

Nikolas Cruz is the perpetrator of the Parkland, Florida shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, where he was a former student. He killed 17 people and wounded 17 others. Following the shooting it was revealed that... Read more

People White supremacist

GLOSSARY OF EXTREMISM AND HATE

Benjamin Smith

Benjamin Smith was a white supremacist who committed a racially motivated shooting spree in Indiana and Illinois in 1999. He killed two people and seriously injured eight others, including six Jews leaving synagogue services. He was a... Read more

People White supremacist

GLOSSARY OF EXTREMISM AND HATE

Nutella and Kittens

Nutella and kittens was among ISIS's more inventive and disturbing media tactics. In 2015, the group paired calls to join the Islamic State with innocuous images that were popular on the internet, including pictures of kittens or... Read more

Tactics Islamist

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Omar Shafik Hammami …

Omar Shafik Hammami (1984-2013), aka Abu Mansoor al Amriki, was an American foreign terrorist fighter who traveled to Somalia to join al Shabaab. Hammami was raised as a Christian in Alabama and converted to Islam sometime during... Read more

People Islamist

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Osama bin Laden

Osama bin Laden (1957-2011) is perhaps the most influential and infamous terrorist leader in history. He originally became involved in the jihadist sphere when he traveled to Pakistan from his home in Saudi Arabia to help organize... Read more

People Islamist

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Pamela Geller

Pamela Geller is an anti-Muslim bigot who often exploits concern over terrorism to promote anti-Muslim and anti-immigrant conspiracy theories. She runs the website Geller Report and is one of the leaders of the group Stop Islamization of... Read more

People Single-issue

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Paper Terrorism

"Paper terrorism" is a term given to a range of tactics developed by the sovereign citizen movement to use against their perceived enemies. These tactics typically involve the filing of bogus legal documents or the misuse of... Read more

Tactics Anti-government

GLOSSARY OF EXTREMISM AND HATE

Patrick Casey

Patrick Casey was Identity Evropa's chief of staff when he replaced Elliot Klien as the group's leader in November 2017. In March 2019, Casey rebranded Identity Evropa as the American Identity Movement (AIM) which he led until... Read more

People White supremacist