Methodology
Editorial standards.
FightingRadicalism.org operates as an evidence-first documentary platform. The following principles govern what is published, how it is framed, and how it is attributed.
Sourcing Standard
Every factual claim on this platform must be attributed to at least one of the following: a government report or official designation database, a court record or judicial filing, a United Nations body or treaty committee document, a peer-reviewed academic publication, or reporting from a news organisation with editorial standards and a corrections policy. Anonymous sourcing is not accepted. Where sources conflict, the discrepancy is noted within the entry.
Attribution and Designation
Attribution of an incident to an organisation or individual follows the evidentiary standard of the most authoritative available source: court verdicts where available, government or UN findings where not. Claims of responsibility are noted as claims and distinguished from adjudicated or formally designated attribution. Entries record which governments or international bodies have formally designated an organisation, and in what year.
Ideological Labelling
Ideological labels such as Islamist, jihadist, or white nationalist are used where they are accurate, sourced to the organisation's own statements or to scholarly consensus, and specific to the organisation or actor in question. Broad communal framings such as Muslim terrorism or Hindu extremism are prohibited. The editorial standard throughout is to describe the specific organisation, ideology, or individual, not the religious or ethnic community from which they may emerge.
Scope and Exclusions
This platform documents extremism across all ideological and communal origins. Selection of entries is determined by the availability of primary-source documentation, not by the ideology, religion, or ethnicity of the actors involved. Entries are not published on the basis of unverified social media reports, single anonymous sources, or politically motivated claims unsupported by independent evidence.
Updates and Corrections
Each entry carries an updatedAt date. When new court findings, government reports, or credible journalism materially alter the documented record, entries are revised and the update is reflected in that date field. Corrections of factual error are made promptly. The platform does not delete entries to obscure prior coverage; material corrections are applied in place.
Relationship to Communities
A central editorial principle of this platform is the distinction between extremist actors and the broader communities, religions, or nationalities from which they may emerge. Documentation of Islamist or jihadist violence is not documentation of Muslim communities. Documentation of Hindu nationalist violence is not documentation of Hindu communities. This distinction is actively maintained in all entry language and framing.