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GLOSSARY OF EXTREMISM AND HATE

Charles Weisman

From the late 1980s, Charles Weisman ran Weisman Publications, a Minnesota-based publisher whose publications focused on Christian Identity theology and sovereign citizen doctrine. He died in 2016.

People White supremacist

GLOSSARY OF EXTREMISM AND HATE

Chuck Baldwin

Chuck Baldwin is a prominent figure in the anti-government extremist "Patriot" movement. Throughout the coronavirus pandemic, Baldwin has peddled conspiracy theories that government measures to combat the virus are a "pretext for civil tyranny," "phase two" (after... Read more

People Anti-government

GLOSSARY OF EXTREMISM AND HATE

Abdullah Azzam

Abdullah Azzam (1941-1989) was an influential Palestinian Salafi jihadist who popularized the concept of 'defensive jihad' during the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan to encourage foreign volunteer fighters to travel to join the mujahideen movement. After the Soviet... Read more

People Islamist

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Citizens’ grand jury…

Citizens' grand juries (also known as common law grand juries and people's grand juries) are sham juries created primarily by adherents of the sovereign citizen movement, who have a fondness for creating fictitious judicial and governmental entities... Read more

Key Concepts / Definitions Anti-government

GLOSSARY OF EXTREMISM AND HATE

Common law courts

"Common law courts" are bogus courts established by adherents of the sovereign citizen movement, who reject the legitimacy of actual courts. They are often used to render unenforceable judgments regarding genuine legal disputes and to issue phony... Read more

Key Concepts / Definitions Anti-government

GLOSSARY OF EXTREMISM AND HATE

Abdullah el Faisal

Abdullah el Faisal is an extremist cleric who was convicted in February 2003 in the United Kingdom of inciting hatred against Jews, Hindus, Christians, Americans and others he considers "unbelievers." He first became an Imam in 1991... Read more

People Islamist

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Constitutional Sheri…

The Constitutional Sheriffs and Peace Officers Association (CSPOA) is an anti-government extremist group founded in 2011 by former Arizona sheriff Richard Mack. The organization recruits sheriffs into the anti-government extremist "Patriot" movement, and claims the county sheriff... Read more

Groups / Movements Anti-government

GLOSSARY OF EXTREMISM AND HATE

Craig Rosebraugh

Craig Rosebraugh shaped the ideological direction of the eco-terrorist group, Earth Liberation Front (ELF) from the late 1990s through the early 2000s. More than any other activist, Rosebraugh was able to infuse the eco-terror movement with a... Read more

People Left-wing

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Abu Bakr al Baghdadi

Abu Bakr al Baghdadi was an Iraqi terrorist and leader of ISIS during its period of territorial expansion in Iraq and Syria. He took over in 2010, and on June 29, 2014, he declared the establishment of... Read more

People Islamist

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Crusaders

Crusaders is a term used by Islamists to refer to any Western presence in the Middle East, though it is most often used to refer to the U.S. In addition, anti-Muslim extremists in the United States often... Read more

Slogans / Code words Islamist