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Screw your optics

"Screw your optics, I'm going in," is believed to be Robert Bower's final social media post prior to allegedly opening fire on Pittsburgh's Tree of Life Synagogue in 2018. The "optics" debate is a major point of... Read more

Slogans / Code words Right-wing

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Blue-Eyed Devils

The term "blue-eyed devil" is a racial epithet that originated in Asia, directed against people of European ancestry. Some white supremacists have adopted the term in recent decades and may refer to themselves as blue-eyed devils. A... Read more

Slogans / Code words White supremacist

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Second Lt. Mohammed …

Second Lt. Mohammed Saeed Alshamrani was a member of the Saudi Arabian military who attacked the Naval Air Station in Pensacola, Florida, on December 6, 2019, killing three people and injuring eight others. Alshamrani was part of... Read more

People Islamist

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Sharia4 Network

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

Publications Islamist

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Sheikh Omar Abdel Ra…

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

People Islamist

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Shoe Bomber, Richard…

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

People Islamist

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Skinhead

The skinhead subculture includes both racists and non-racists (see SHARP entry). They share many common elements, such as head shaving, clothing, tattoos and symbols, rituals and music. However - racist skinheads have come to compose one of... Read more

Groups / Movements White supremacist

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South African Flag (…

In 1994, after the end of apartheid, South Africa adopted a new national flag, as the previous flag, adopted in 1928, had come to symbolize the apartheid regime. Since 1994, white supremacists in South Africa and elsewhere... Read more

Numbers / Symbols White supremacist

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Steam

Steam, which launched in 2003 and is owned by Valve, is the largest and most important online store for PC gamers. It gained popularity among white supremacists because of lax user agreements allowing individuals to promote extremism... Read more

Platforms / Sites White supremacist

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Steven Anderson

Steven Anderson is an Arizona-based pastor and founder of the New Independent Fundamental Baptist (New IFB) movement, whose virulently antisemitic, anti-LGBTQ+ sermons have reached millions of people online. Anderson's history of bigotry includes openly calling for the... Read more

People Antisemitism