What American political activist and commentator was almost beheaded by Boston-area resident Usaama Rahim?
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2015 Boston beheading plot An attack was plotted by Boston-area resident Usaama Rahim. Rahim initially planned to behead Pamela Geller but when that proved too difficult, he told his nephew David Wright on June 2, 2015, that he had decided to behead a police officer instead. However, Rahim was under 24-hour police surveillance, and the police moved that day to arrest Rahim. During the attempted arrest, the police shot and killed Rahim. Wright was arrested and initially charged with attempting to destroy evidence. Later, a third man, Nicholas Rovinski, was arrested, and both Wright and Rovinski were charged with conspiracy to support the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL).
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Pamela Geller Pamela Geller (born June 14, 1958) is an American political activist and commentator. She is known for her anti-Islamic writings, opposition to the proposed construction of an Islamic community center near the former site of the World Trade Center, and sponsorship of the "Draw the Prophet" cartoon contest in Garland, Texas. She says her blogging and campaigns in the United States are against what she terms "creeping Sharia" in the country. Multiple groups have described Geller as Islamophobic.
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Anwar al-Awlaki Anwar al-Awlaki (also spelled al-Aulaqi, al-Awlaqi; Arabic: أنور العولقي‎ ‎ "Anwar al-‘Awlaqī"; April 21, 1971 – September 30, 2011) was an American and Yemeni imam and Islamic lecturer. U.S. government officials allege that, in his position as a senior recruiter and motivator, he was centrally involved in planning terrorist operations for the Islamist militant group al-Qaeda, and he became the first United States citizen to be targeted and killed by a U.S. drone strike. President Barack Obama ordered the strike. His son, Abdulrahman al-Awlaki (a 16-year-old U.S. citizen), was killed in a U.S. drone strike two weeks later. On January 29, 2017, Al-Awlaki's 8-year-old daughter, Nawar Al-Awlaki, was killed in a U.S. commando attack in Yemen which was ordered by Obama's successor, Donald Trump. With a blog, a Facebook page, the al-Qaeda magazine "Inspire", and many YouTube videos, al-Awlaki was described by Saudi news station Al Arabiya as the "bin Laden of the Internet". After a request from the U.S. Congress, in November 2010 Google removed many of al-Awlaki's videos from its websites. According to "The New York Times", al-Awlaki's public statements and videos have been more influential in inspiring acts of terrorism in the wake of his assassination than before his death.
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Naeem Rahim Naeem Rahim (born January 1, 1976) is an American nephrologist and founder of Idaho based JRM foundation For humanity & Co-founder of Idaho Kidney Institute. He was one of the First Idahoans to receive the Ellis Island Medals of Honor in the last 25 years.
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Daniel Rakowitz Daniel Paul Rakowitz is an American murderer and cannibal.
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Robert Relf Robert Relf (1924 – 12 October 2014) was an English political activist of the far right. Regarded by his sympathizers as a 'race martyr', he briefly became a cause célèbre for the tabloid press in the 1970s.
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Mohammad Aminuddin Mohammad Aminuddin was a Bangladeshi lawyer, who was killed in the Bangladesh Liberation war and is considered a martyr in Bangladesh.
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Ali Khan (activist) Ali Khan is a citizen of Pakistan, and a permanent resident of the United States.
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Americans for Peace and Tolerance Americans for Peace and Tolerance (APT) is a Boston, Massachusetts, 501(c)(3) non-profit organization which describes itself as being devoted to "promoting peaceful coexistence in an ethnically diverse America by educating the American public about the need for a moderate political leadership that supports tolerance and core American values in communities across the nation." APT describes itself as having been at the forefront of criticizing Islamist extremism in the Boston area and nationally; however, it has been labeled a hate group by American Muslim and Jewish organizations, which allege that it has consistently targeted the Boston Muslim community through smear campaigns and guilt-by-association tactics. US Attorney for Massachusetts Carmen Ortiz has labeled the group and its claims "incredibly racist and unfair."
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Terry Robbins Terry Robbins (October 4, 1947 – March 6, 1970) was an American far left activist, a key member of the Ohio Students for a Democratic Society (The S.D.S.), and one of the three Weathermen who died in the Greenwich Village townhouse explosion.
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Nicholas Oliver Nicholas Anthony Oliver (born May 20, 1979) is an American lobbyist, a leading activist in the fight for Rhode Island's anti-smoking laws. He has worked for several organizations including the American Heart Association and the Massachusetts Association of 766 Approved Private Schools. He briefly worked for W. Mitt Romney when he served as Governor of Massachusetts.
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Greg Withrow Gregory Withrow (born May 1, 1961) is an American far-right White supremacy activist. He was described by the "Chicago Sun-Times" as being "widely acknowledged as the founder of the [white power] 'skinhead' movement in 1978". Withrow subsequently publicly abandoned his earlier political beliefs in the late 1980s and became a regular face on television speaking out against racism and the organisation of young people by the far-right. In later years Withrow repudiated his change of heart and returned to far-right activism.
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Habiba Ahmed Abd Elaziz Ramadan Habiba Ahmed Abd Elaziz Ramadan (November 22, 1986 – August 14, 2013) was an Egyptian journalist and activist who was killed on August 14, 2013 at the August 2013 Rabaa massacre by a sniper in the protests following the ousting of Mohamed Morsi as President of Egypt.
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Mahir al-Zubaydi Mahir al-Zubaydi (died October 3, 2008 in Adhamiya, Baghdad, Iraq), also known as Abu Assad or Abu Rami, was a military commander in Al-Qaeda in Iraq. Zubaydi is believed to have headed the group behind bombings which killed at least 16 people in Baghdad in October 2008. The U.S. military says Zubaydi was suspected in several other attacks against Iraqis and U.S. forces in past years. Zubaydi also took part in a videotaped killing of four Russian diplomats in June 2006.
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Kem Ley Kem Ley (Khmer: កែម ឡី ; 19 October 1970 – 10 July 2016) was a Cambodian political commentator and activist. He was known for his political commentary, including trenchant criticisms of the current government led by Cambodian People's Party (CPP). He was assassinated in what is believed to have been a politically motivated attack on 10 July 2016 at a petrol station in Phnom Penh. He is the third notable activist to be killed after union leader Chea Vichea in 2004, and environmental activist Chut Wutty in 2012.
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Paul Rogat Loeb Paul Rogat Loeb (born July 4, 1952) is an American social and political activist.
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Death of Khaled Mohamed Saeed Khaled Mohamed Saeed (Arabic: خالد محمد سعيد‎ ‎ ] ; 27 January 1982 – 6 June 2010) was a young Egyptian man whose death in police custody in the Sidi Gaber area of Alexandria on 6 June 2010 helped incite the Egyptian Revolution of 2011. Photos of his disfigured corpse spread throughout online communities and incited outrage over allegations that he was beaten to death by Egyptian security forces. A prominent Facebook group, "We are all Khaled Said", moderated by Wael Ghonim, brought attention to his death and contributed to growing discontent in the weeks leading up to the Egyptian Revolution of 2011. In October 2011, two Egyptian police officers were found guilty of manslaughter and sentenced to seven years in prison for beating Saeed to death. They were granted a retrial and sentenced to ten years in prison on 3 March 2014.
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Michael Curtis Reynolds Michael Curtis Reynolds is an American who was convicted of terrorism-related crimes after a series of December 2005 online discussions with a US judge posing as a militant.
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Sunil Tripathi Sunil Tripathi was an American student who went missing on March 16, 2013. His disappearance received widespread media attention after he was wrongfully accused on social media as a suspect in the Boston Marathon bombing. Tripathi had been missing for a month prior to the April 15, 2013 bombings. His body was found on April 23, after the actual bombing suspects had been officially identified and apprehended.
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Stephen Paster Stephen Paul Paster (born 1949) is an American from Los Angeles, California who has been widely alleged to be a member of the Jamaat ul-Fuqra.
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Richard Ramirez Ricardo Leyva Muñoz Ramírez, known as Richard Ramirez (February 29, 1960 – June 7, 2013), was an American serial killer, rapist, and burglar. His highly publicized home invasion crime spree terrorized the residents of the greater Los Angeles area, and later the residents of the San Francisco area, from June 1984 until August 1985. Prior to his capture, Ramirez was dubbed the "Night Stalker" by the news media. He used a wide variety of weapons, including handguns, knives, a machete, a tire iron, and a hammer. Ramirez, who was an avowed Satanist, never expressed any remorse for his crimes. The judge who upheld his thirteen death sentences remarked that Ramirez's deeds exhibited "cruelty, callousness, and viciousness beyond any human understanding". Ramirez died of complications from B-cell lymphoma while awaiting execution on California's death row.
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Abdirahman Ahmed Abdirahman Ahmed (died 15 January 2009) was a Somali politician. He was executed by an Islamist militia for alleged apostasy. He was tried and convicted by a Sharia court, but was not allowed legal representation according to his family.