domestic terrorist

[duh-mes-tik ter-er-ist]

noun

1. a person engaged in domestic terrorism.

Example Sentences

The president recently signed an executive order declaring antifa a “domestic terrorist organization,” which is not a legal designation.

Read more on Salon

The presentation explained how bank employees could search transaction data to identify a potential domestic terrorist or lone shooter, including by searching for purchases from vendors such as “Bass Pro Shops” and “Cabela’s.”

Read more on The Wall Street Journal

The “common threads” of these “domestic terrorist” groups “include anti-Americanism, anti-capitalism, and anti-Christianity,” as well as “extremism on migration, race, and gender, and hostility towards those who hold traditional American views on family, religion, and morality.”

Read more on Slate

The president recently signed an executive order designating the group, which is a loosely organised movement of far-left activists, as a domestic terrorist organisation.

Read more on BBC

“While the FBI has confirmed that antifa and other extremists are subjects of ongoing domestic terrorism investigations, it declines to designate any organization a “‘domestic terrorist organization,” a 2020 congressional report said.

Read more on Los Angeles Times