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Ahmed Yassin
GLOSSARY OF EXTREMISM AND HATE

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... Read more
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Alain de Benoist

Alain de Benoist is a French writer who was part of the New Right and was an influence for many American white supremacists, including Richard Spencer and Greg Johnson.
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Alek Minassian

Alek Minassian is a violent incel (Involuntary celibate) who killed ten people and injured sixteen in a vehicular attack in Canada in 2018. Minassian was motivated by embarrassment over sexual rejection and self-identified as an incel. He... Read more
People Single-issue
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Alexander Dugin

Alexander Dugin is a far-right, ultra-nationalist Russian philosopher and political scientist who is the founder of the "Eurasian movement," which theorizes that Russia, with the help of former Soviet bloc countries and Central European nations, will challenge... Read more
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Anjem Choudary

Anjem Choudary is a British Islamist activist who founded a number of Salafist institutions and openly supported ISIS's activities. He has influenced radical individuals throughout Europe and America. In 2016, he was convicted in the UK undersection... Read more
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Anwar al Awlaki

Anwar al Awlaki was a Yemeni-American imam who served as a prominent recruiter for Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula. His lectured inspired many of the worst domestic Islamist terrorist attacks, including Nidal Hasan's attack on Fort... Read more
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Benjamin Matthew Wil…

Benjamin Matthew Williams is a white supremacist who set fire to three California synagogues in 2001 with his brother, James Tyler Williams. They also killed a gay couple from Redding, California, in 1999.
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Billy Roper

Billy Roper is a long-time leader in the white supremacist movement. He currently leads the Shield Wall Network, a tiny Arkansas-based neo-Nazi group. Roper got his start with William Pierce and the National Alliance. After Pierce's death... Read more
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Brenton Tarrant

Brenton Tarrant is an Australian white supremacist who killed 51 people in attacks on two mosques in Christchurch, New Zealand in 2019. Tarrant, who was largely motivated by the "Great Replacement Theory," believing that whites are experiencing... Read more
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