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Extremism is "the quality or state of being extreme" or "the advocacy of extreme measures or views". [1] The term is primarily used in a political or religious sense to refer to an ideology that is considered (by the speaker or by some implied shared social consensus) to be far outside the mainstream attitudes of society. [2]
Eco-terrorism is an act of violence which is committed in support of environmental causes, against people or property. [1] [2]The United States Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) defines eco-terrorism as "...the use or threatened use of violence of a criminal nature against innocent victims or their property by an environmentally oriented, subnational group for environmental-political ...
Within these, it is some of the more extreme environmental and anti-abortion groups that have turned most toward vandalism and terrorist activities. [ 3 ] One well-known form of special-issue terrorism is environmental or eco-terrorism , which in the 1980s was the only type of special-interest terrorism included in FBI statistics. [ 4 ]
The profile of each group provides (when able): what the group is also known as; when it was formed; its stated aims/ideology/policy; the location of its headquarters; its area of operations; its size; the nature of its structure; names of its leaders (with their position); membership information (either the type of the population recruited ...
The agency has for a decade consistently had around 1,000 active investigations into Islamist extremists annually, but more than doubled its investigations into fringe political extremist threats ...
The German far-right has published the magazine Umwelt & Aktiv , that masquerades as a garden and nature publication but intertwines garden tips with extremist political ideology. [ 199 ] [ 200 ] [ 201 ] This is known as a "camouflage publication" in which the NPD has spread its mission and ideologies through a discrete source and made its way ...
Jensen’s team found that over 80% of extremists plotters with military backgrounds identified with far-right, anti-government or white supremacist ideologies, with the rest split among far-left ...
She notes that environmental terrorism can be defined "as the unlawful use of force against in situ environmental resources so as to deprive populations of their benefit(s) and/or destroy other property". In contrast, eco-terrorism is the destruction of property in the interest of saving the environment from human encroachment and destruction. [5]