Saeed Al-Ghamdi

Rejector of modernity and free-thinking

Omar Abdulaziz

Daesh loyalist masked by political asylum

Ahlam Al-Nasr

Daesh poetess

Laxmi Dubey

Pop singer, Hindu nationalist

Pamela Geller

Purveyor of anti-Muslim prejudice

Ayat Oraby

Anchor of intolerance

Tariq Abdelhaleem

Al-Qaeda apologist hiding in Canada

Ashin Wirathu

Labeled by the international media as an extremist and ultranationalist. He is known as the “Buddhist Bin Laden,”

Awad Al‑Qarni

Detained hard-line Saudi cleric who for years used TV interviews to spread conspiracy theories and extremist rhetoric against modernity

Salman Al‑Odah

Controversial preacher who has influenced young Saudis for decades

Yusuf Al‑Qaradawi

Openly advanced his inflammatory political interests
and broadened the Muslim Brotherhood

Steven Anderson

One of America’s most controversial preachers, with a mission to spread his fundamentalist Christian beliefs, anti-Semitic views

Qais Al‑Khazali

Hate preacher posing as a politician who respects and protects the Iraqi political system

Baruch Marzel

Kahane’s protégé in spreading anti-Muslim and anti-Arab sentiment across Israel

Lana Lokteff

American alt-right icon

Nasser Al‑Omar

Ultra-hardline preacher hiding under the guise of a soft-spoken professor

Anjem Choudary

UK television’s favorite preacher of hate

Abu Bakr Al‑Baghdadi

Self-proclaimed caliph of the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria

Safar Al‑Hawali

Terror promoter and Al-Qaeda supporter

Zahran Hashim

Alleged mastermind behind the bomb attacks on Sri Lanka’s capital Colombo, and the towns of Negombo and Batticaloa.

Meir Kahane

Founder of militant Jewish Defense League (JDL).

Abdul‑Malik Al‑Houthi

Leader of the Houthi militia.

Abdul‑Malik Al‑Houthi

Leader of the Houthi militia.

Terry Jones

Gained global notoriety for burning copies of the Qur’an and broadcasting the images to the Muslim world.

Brenton Tarrant

Livestreamed the massacre of 50 Muslim worshippers at two mosques in Christchurch, New Zealand.

There can be no tolerance for intolerance

Arab News embarked on a mission to expose Preachers of Hate. This goes beyond naming and shaming — our aim is to track and document extremist ideology, to hold clerics accountable for what they say, and to analyze how their words affect people worldwide.

Faisal J. Abbas Editor-in-Chief, ArabNews