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GLOSSARY OF EXTREMISM AND HATE
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Dave Foreman
Dave Foreman is a former lobbyist for the Wilderness Society and one of the founders of "Earth First!" - an ardent environmentalist group. In his 1985 book "Ecodefense: A Field Guide to Monkeywrenching," Foreman provided detailed instructions... Read more
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ACT for America
ACT for America is the largest anti-Muslim group in the United States. It stokes irrational fear of and spreads hateful conspiracy theories about Muslims. The group is led by its founder, Brigitte Gabriel, and has local chapters... Read more
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Abdel Aziz Rantisi
Co-founder of Hamas along with Sheikh Ahmed Yassin. Rantisi served as Hamas's political leader and opposed any cooperation with the Israeli government, instead insisting that the only acceptable outcome was the establishment of a Palestinian state including... Read more
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Abu Musab al-Zarqawi
Abu Musab al-Zarqawi was the leader of ISIS's predecessor organization, Al Qaeda in Iraq. Al Qaeda in Iraq split from the central Al Qaeda terrorist organization in 2004. As leader of Al Qaeda in Iraq, Zarqawi emphasized... Read more
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Abu Sayyaf Group/ISI…
The Abu Sayyaf Group (ISIS Philippines), also referred to as ISIS East Asia, is a conglomeration of smaller Filipino Islamist groups which pledged allegiance to ISIS starting in 2014. The groups have attracted Western fighters, including from... Read more
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Afghan Mujahideen
The Afghan mujahideen were the religiously-motivated insurgents who banded together to oppose the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan in 1979. Most of the major leaders in Islamist extremist groups initially trained, fought and rose to prominence during this... Read more
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Ahmad Abousamra
Ahmad Abousamra was a Syrian-American extremist, foreign fighter and editor-in-chief of ISIS's English language publication, Dabiq Magazine, which focused on recruiting Westerners as foreign fighters. He was killed by a U.S. drone strike in Syria in January... Read more
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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