Daily Beast: “The FBI’s top terrorism cops took down a different kind of alleged terrorist in a complaint filed earlier this month: an incel. In a complaint filed in federal court in White Plains, New York, an FBI agent with the Bureau’s Joint Terrorism Task Force detailed a year-long campaign of harassment, rape, and death threats levied at a Long Island couple by David Kaufman, a self-described member of the ‘incel’ movement and supporter of one of its most notorious murderers, Elliot Rodger. Prosecutors alleged that Kaufman terrorized a couple he knew from college and their friends in a series of messages on Twitter, Facebook, and YouTube in retaliation for ‘for rejecting and depriving him of sex to which he believed he was entitled,’ according to the complaint.”

“Members of the Joint Terrorism Task Force, comprised of federal, state, and local law enforcement officials coordinating together on extremism investigations, typically work cases associated with Islamist extremist groups like ISIS and al-Qaeda or right-wing extremists, like neo-Nazis. The involuntarily celibate or ‘incels,’ as they call themselves, are a rarer threat that has surfaced over the past few years. Incels, the FBI notes in court documents, have ‘committed acts of violence against women across the world’ and in the US. Incels have their own subculture largely online, with specific language used to signify their anti-women beliefs. In his alleged threats, Kaufman adopted the language of the incel movement, derisively referring to his victims’ high school classmates as ‘normies’ and to one of his alleged victims as a ‘Chad,’ which the complaint describes as ‘an Incel term that refers to an archetypal white alpha man.’ He also allegedly adopted the movement’s misogynist goals, telling one victim that ‘it should be illegal for a woman to say no’ to sex.”