extremist
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The new evidence undermines Omar al-Bayoumi's 25 years of denials that he was an extremist and a Saudi spy.
From BBC ● Sep. 7, 2026
It’s a tragedy when any human life is taken, here or abroad, by a soldier or an extremist.
From Salon ● Sep. 2, 2026
Authorities believe that the girl was radicalized in the same extremist online networks as Vazquez and Clark and communicated with them using the messaging platform Signal, O’Neill said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 31, 2026
Without some transparency, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent pointed out, bad actors can hide “fraud, abuse, and extremist activity behind complicated nonprofit arrangements.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 27, 2026
He exerted great influence as a teacher, and is known as an extremist in doctrine.
From The Great Apostasy Considered in the Light of Scriptural and Secular History by James Edward Talmage
This came even as three heroic Muslim men gave their lives in May while defending some 240 children at the Islamic Center of San Diego from anti-Muslim extremists.
From Salon ● Sep. 11, 2026
She said this was "a hatred we must stand robustly against, and root out from its very foundations", which meant "taking on extremists and bearing down on those who seek to divide our communities".
From BBC ● Aug. 31, 2026
On Thursday, his name appeared on Russia's online register of "terrorists and extremists" -- a blacklist maintained by Russia's Rosfinmonitoring financial watchdog.
From Barron's ● Jul. 30, 2026
The U.S. military, meanwhile, withdrew from its bases in Syria earlier this year, ending a more than decadelong commitment to the country that began as a mission to fight Islamic State extremists.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 1, 2026
In addition, more than 52 percent of the shootouts between extremists and police now involve white extremists.
From "1919 The Year That Changed America" by Martin W. Sandler
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