(BBC) A new global counter-extremism database has been launched in London.
The EMAN Network, standing for Extremist Monitoring Analysis Network, aims to “combat hate speech and extremist ideologies by profiling radical individuals and organisations of all faiths.”
Far-right extremists, anti-Semitic tweeters and those who propagate a violent interpretation of Islam and other religions are all profiled in EMAN’s database which currently holds around 150 entries.
Each entry lists the actions or words of the alleged disseminators of hate speech that has brought them to the attention of the researchers, backed up in some cases with videos of their sermons. Even the former LBC broadcaster Katie Hopkins is included for her defamatory remarks about Muslims. So too are some obscure Sri Lankan and Burmese Buddhists.
