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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.
Not every terrorist was motivated by Islamist extremism. On August 12, 2017, a white supremacist used his car to kill a counterprotestor at the Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville, Va.
While the threat of Islamist terrorism has not gone away in the U.S., the number of far-right attacks continues to outpace all other types of terrorism and domestic violent extremism, according to ...
Misogynist terrorism is terrorism that is motivated by the desire to punish women. It is an extreme form of misogyny —the policing of women's compliance to patriarchal gender expectations. [ 1 ] Misogynist terrorism uses mass indiscriminate violence in an attempt to avenge nonconformity with those expectations or to reinforce the perceived ...
Terrorist acts have included airline hijacking, kidnapping, assassination, suicide bombing, and mass murder. [95] [96] [97] The tension reached a climax on 11 September 2001 when Islamic terrorists flew hijacked commercial airplanes into the World Trade Center in New York City and the Pentagon in Washington, D.C.
The terrorist who plowed a truck into a crowd of New Year’s Eve revelers in New Orleans, killing at least 15 people, had an extensive military background — which is the "No. 1 predictor" for ...
Islamic extremism refers to extremist beliefs, behaviors and ideologies adhered to by some Muslims within Islam. The term 'Islamic extremism' is 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.
A scary, sobering look at fatal domestic violence in the United States