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November 16, 2021

Islamogram: Salafism and Alt-Right Online Subcultures

ISD UK, ISD-US

Far-Right Extremism, Islamist Extremism, Terrorism and Extremism

Moustafa Ayad, Farah Pandith and Rashad Ali

This report provides an ethnographic deep dive into an emerging online Salafi ecosystem, referred to by its members as ‘Islamogram’. This highly active online community merges Salafist ideas with alt-right memes and gaming subcultures, and represents a hybridised cross-platform challenge, speaking to an emerging trend characterised by increasing ideological fluidity between diverse online extremist communities.

Content warning: This report contains potentially sensitive and extreme imagery.

ISD’s pioneering new research maps the rapidly evolving online Salafi ecosystem, providing a cross-platform snapshot of a broad landscape of English, German and Arabic content.

To read the full series on Salafism, click here.

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ISD Contributors

Moustafa Ayad
Research Chair in Global Islamism & Counter-Terrorism