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Islamic extremism, Islamist extremism or radical Islam refers to a set of extremist beliefs, behaviors and ideologies within Islam. These terms remain contentious, encompassing a spectrum of definitions, ranging from academic interpretations of Islamic supremacy to the notion that all ideologies other than Islam have failed and are inferior.
The bombing attempt on Northwest Airlines Flight 253 was condemned by Muslim groups. In Canada, a group of Canadian and U.S. Islamic leaders issued a fatwa, or religious edict, condemning any attacks by extremists or terrorists on the United States or Canada and declaring that an attack by extremists on the two countries would constitute an attack on Muslims living in North America.
The Pew Research Center's 2013 poll showed that the majority of 14,244 Muslim, Christian, and other respondents in 14 countries with substantial Muslim populations are concerned about Islamic extremism and hold negative views on known terrorist groups.
Violent extremism is a form of extremism that condones and enacts violence with ideological or deliberate intent, such as religious or political violence. [6] Violent extremist views often conflate with religious [12] and political violence, [13] and can manifest in connection with a range of issues, including politics, [1] [4] religion, [7] [14] and gender relations.
Now we think of right-wing white extremists or Mexican Mafiosi as prison gangs, but in the 1970s, influential prison justice movements on the “outside” arose out of deadly confrontations ...
RIM, and three of its senior members, were the first and only White supremacists designated as terrorists by the U.S. government in 2020. The Department of Treasury says he “has raised over 200 ...
Iran-born reporter and senior researcher for the Committee to Protect Journalists Yeganeh Rezaian traces the four-decades-long road that led to an unfolding revolution against the Islamic Republic.
Terrorist attacks committed by non-Muslims (or where the religion was unknown) received an average of 15 headlines, while those committed by Muslim extremists received 105 headlines. The study was based on an analysis of news reports covering terrorist attacks in the United States between 2005 and 2015.