extremist
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Experts working for the UN Human Rights Council wrote in April that Mohammed had been receiving death threats and online abuse for years, which were "believed to come from extremist religious militia".
From BBC ● Oct. 13, 2026
Mr. Sorkin attempts to dramatize this discussion via heavy use of charts and repeated invocations of a figure: 64% of those who joined extremist groups on Facebook were directed there by the platform’s own algorithm.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 8, 2026
ABC News, citing senior intelligence and law enforcement officials familiar with the investigation, reported the suspect had allegedly been found in possession of extremist materials while a trainee.
From Barron's ● Oct. 3, 2026
Lagarde has often sought to shape the EU’s policies beyond her core monetary-policy domain, taking stands on issues such as climate change and extremist politics that she views as risks to the continent’s economic future.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 18, 2026
She was in just that receptive mood to be made an extremist by their doctrines, the best of which so sensibly warn us against extremes.
From The Adventures of a Widow A Novel by Edgar Fawcett
The report noted that "mounting evidence" suggested extremists in Afghanistan and the Persian Gulf "were aware" the attack had been imminent.
From BBC ● Sep. 11, 2026
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
After opting against turning it into a historical monument to avoid drawing extremists, an expert commission decided to make it a police station.
From Barron's ● Jul. 22, 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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"Letter from Birmingham Jail" by Martin Luther King, Jr. (1963)
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