Sharia is the term for Islamic religious law based on the Quran and hadiths. The term has become a catch-all phrase used by anti-Muslim bigots to stoke fear about the so-called Islamization of America, claiming that Sharia... Read more

The Sharia4 network is a radical Islamist recruitment network based out of Europe and was most active in the early 2010s. The network was largely informal, though there were active branches in Belgium, the United Kingdom and... Read more

Omar Abdel Rahman (1938-2017), colloquially known as the Blind Sheikh, was the leader of the Egyptian terrorist group Gama'a Islamiyya. His group was involved in the assassination of Egyptian president Anwar Sadat in 1981, and although Rahman... Read more

Richard Reid (b. 1973), aka the "Shoe Bomber," is a British terrorist affiliated with Al Qaeda who attempted to bomb American Airlines Flight 63 from Paris, France to Miami, Florida on December 22, 2001. He reportedly trained... Read more

Syed Rizwan Farook and Tashfeen Malik are domestic terrorists who committed a mass shooting at the San Bernardino Inland Regional Center on December 2, 2015. The attack killed 14 and injured 22. The husband and wife reportedly... Read more

Boko Haram is an Islamist group founded in 2004 in Nigeria by Mohammed Yusuf. Originally dedicated to "purifying" the region from Western influence, the group's name translates to "Western education is forbidden." The group is based in... Read more

Abdul Alim Musa, born Clarence Reams, is an American Islamist extremist who founded the radical group As-Sabiqun as well as the Islamic Institute of Counter-Zionist Psychological Warfare. Musa has claimed that the Jews ran the Trans-Atlantic slave... Read more

The Taliban is an Islamist insurgent movement based in Afghanistan, which since August 2021 has assumed control of the country. Although the Taliban rarely directs attacks towards the West, it has frequently provided a safe haven for... Read more

The tawhid emoji or hand gesture is frequently used by Islamists, and ISIS members in particular, to signify their membership. The single finger is meant to reference "tawheed," a religious term for the belief that there is... Read more