extremist

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Heifler, who is a US citizen, has been described by police as an "extremist with no criminal record with the New York Police Department", CBS News, the BBC's US partner, reported.

From BBC • Mar. 27, 2026

They had no apparent links to international terrorist networks — until Malik pledged allegiance to the leader of the extremist group Islamic State on Facebook shortly before the attack.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 10, 2026

Or one could argue the opposite: The presence of a unifying caliph might have, as it had for centuries, moderated the expansion of marginal extremist movements such as Wahhabism or, in our time, Islamic State.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 4, 2026

The film traces how suspicion fell in particular on several members of the Jewish Defense League, a group founded by extremist rabbi Meir Kahane before his own assassination in 1990.

From Barron's • Feb. 21, 2026

He had begun life as an extremist of the school of Robespierre; he owed his first promotion to that side; but he had no real grasp of the new forces that were working in Europe.

From A Short History of the World by Wells, H. G. (Herbert George)