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GLOSSARY OF EXTREMISM AND HATE
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Muhammad Youssef Abd…
Muhammad Youssef Abdulazeez (1990-2015) was an Islamist extremist who opened fire at two military sites in Chattanooga, Tennessee on July 16, 2015, killing four Marines and a Navy sailor. Abdulazeez, a Kuwaiti-born U.S. national, is believed to... Read more
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Mujahid/Mujahideen
Mujahid is the Arabic term for someone undertaking jihad. Many Islamist extremists will refer to themselves as the mujahideen (the plural of mujahid) to evoke religious meaning to their violence. In particular, this term is used to... Read more
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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
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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
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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
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Pulse Nightclub Shoo…
The June 2016 shooting spree at the Pulse nightclub in Orlando, Florida, by Omar Mateen—who killed 49 people and wounded 53 more—dwarfed in its lethality all other extremist-related murders in the decade. Mateen, who claimed his attack... Read more
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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