Chapter 4: Results
4.12 NGTF Comparison of Stormfront and Ummah
Table 23: Top 30 words in Stormfront (f1) and Ummah (f2) sorted by f1/f2 NGTF
Word
GTF ratio (f1/f2)
NGTF ratio (f1/f2)
NGTF-IDF ratio (f1/f2)
whites 465.3 417.7 137.1
van 222.9 200.1 107.3
los 211.9 190.2 99.2
negro 178.9 160.6 56.3
blacks 178.3 160.1 64.0
obama 152.8 137.1 54.9
para 143.5 128.8 73.5
par 122.1 109.6 62.9
nationalist 87.5 78.5 39.5
dat 74.0 66.5 41.5
pour 72.6 65.2 38.3
alla 64.2 57.6 36.6
diversity 60.8 54.6 30.2
quote 60.3 54.2 12.5
est 58.5 52.5 35.7
germans 58.2 52.2 31.0
poland 56.3 50.6 32.4
een 56.2 50.4 33.2
chicago 55.9 50.1 28.1
dan 53.1 47.7 28.4
white 50.8 45.6 10.9
stalin 47.6 42.7 27.8
candidate 47.4 42.5 25.7
marxist 47.0 42.2 24.8
mayor 46.8 42.0 24.9
multicultural 46.2 41.5 24.6
hitler 45.0 40.4 20.9
polish 43.8 39.3 24.9
nazis 43.2 38.7 21.7
riots 40.3 36.2 22.9
When examining words that are used in Stormfront as well as Ummah, we see that words related to racism, politics, and nationalities are used much more in Stormfront, while words associated with Islam and religions in general are used much more in Ummah. “whites” is used 417.8 times more in Stormfront, and “white” 45.6 times more. “negro”, a word for a dark-skinned person, is used 160.6 times more in Stormfront than in Ummah. The words
“diversity” is used 54.6 times more. “multicultural” is used 41.4 times more in Stormfront, although it refers to the opposite of racism, it can be used in racist texts to write about why multiculturalism is wrong. The word “racial” is used 33.1 times more. Amongst the words
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that are used much more in Stormfront than in Ummah, we find “obama”, “nationalist”, and
“republican”, “marxist”, and “socialism”, words that are related to politics. We also see a pair of violence-related words: riots, and shooting. Else, we see some nationalities: Germans, Poland/Polish/Poles, Greeks, Indians (either people from India or Native Americans), Swedish.
Table 24: Top 30 words in Stormfront (f1) and Ummah (f2) sorted by f2/f1 NGTF
Word
GTF ratio (f2/f1)
NGTF ratio (f2/f1)
NGTF-IDF ratio (f2/f1)
ibn 390.0 434.5 149.3
qur 360.8 402.0 95.3
allahu 350.5 390.5 55.3
akbar 244.2 272.0 38.9
allah 204.7 228.0 48.1
quran 194.1 216.2 69.4
prophet 120.9 134.6 48.5
blessings 97.3 108.4 51.9
messenger 96.4 107.4 46.8
ahmad 81.5 90.7 45.9
narrated 77.2 86.0 39.2
companions 75.5 84.2 41.7
abu 74.8 83.4 30.2
salam 68.9 76.8 35.4
hijab 57.2 63.7 34.0
mubarak 53.9 60.1 28.1
muhammad 46.0 51.2 21.8
verses 45.3 50.4 28.0
recite 45.2 50.3 23.6
eid 44.2 49.2 23.7
sheikh 41.4 46.1 22.0
apostle 38.7 43.1 26.7
arabic 37.5 41.8 15.7
umm 32.8 36.5 19.4
permissible 30.1 33.5 19.0
sins 29.5 32.8 16.5
fasting 26.0 29.0 15.9
pious 25.6 28.5 16.3
imam 23.1 25.8 13.7
gaze 22.7 25.3 16.0
The word “ibn” is used 434 times more in Ummah than in Stormfront. This seems to be a part of different Arabic male names and has the meaning son [42]. Members of the Saudi Arabian royal family all have the last name Ibn Saud, which means “son of Saud”. The ancestor of that family is Saud ibn-Muhammed, sheik of Dariyya in the first half of the 18th century [48].
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After “ibn”, we find the words “qur” from “qur’an”, “allahu”, “akbar”, “allah”, “quran”,
“prophet”, “blessings”. Many of these words and also following are related to religion.
“apostle”, “sins”, “fasting”, “pious”, “imam”, and “idols” are such words. “apostle” is another word for one of Jesus’s disciples. “sins” are actions of breaking rules of a religion.
“fasting” is to eat little or nothing during a specified period of religious causes. In Islam, one eats only in the night during a fasting month called Ramadan. Being pious means to strictly follow the rules of a religion. “imam” is Sunni Islam’s parallel to “priest”. “idols” are gods other than the “official” one in Islam, Christianity, or Judaism. The language “arabic” is mentioned 41.8 times more in Ummah. Arabia is commonly known as the origin territory of Islam.
When we examine words that are in Ummah, but not in Stormfront, we find a lot of Arabic words, and at least some of them are related to the religion Islam. The word “ummah” (used 2299 times) refers to the international community of Muslims [49]. That is likely the
background for the name of the forum Ummah and the reason that the word “ummah” is used in the forum Ummah, but not in Stormfront. Many of the unique words in Ummah seem to be Arabic words that we have not heard about. “makkah” (584 times) is most likely another way of spelling the name of Mecca, a holy city in Islam. “hadith” (2905 times) is a collection of religious scripts other than the Quran. They include stories about the prophet Muhammad, what he did, said, and quietly agreed in [44]. The word “ameen” (1005 times) is of course the same as the word “amen” known from the ending of prayers in Christianity. We also see English words associated with religion like “recitation” and “disbelievers”.
A surprising word is “breastfeeding” which is actually used 218 times in Ummah, and not in Stormfront. It is there because of discussions about midwives and new-born babies.
Line 83078:
“('Ummah',
'160909-Mothers-milk-how-to-overcome-any-problems-in-the-early-days-general-information%2Fpage2', 'Re: need advice on baby weightloss', 'akhi.. I was a midwife and breastfeeding counsellor a few years ago.. this link is very good. This is the association I did my counselling with.. Insha''Allah it will also provide you with some very good reading and resources to talk to the midwives about
http://www.breastfeeding.asn.au/bfinfo/index.html', 'carol_au', '16-07-08, 09:27 PM')”
The Stormfront forum includes a lot of words from Italian, French, Spanish, and Dutch, and stop words from these languages are visible among the most used of the words that are in Stormfront, but not in Ummah, where English seems to be the discussion language with only some quotes from Arabic. We also find the word “romney” in Stormfront, and it is used 2406 times. Mitt Romney was the Republican candidate against Obama in the latest American presidential election in 2012. Of course “stormfront” is on this list. We also find “auschwitz”
(WW2 concentration camp, 1029 times), “negroes” (plural of “negro”, 1198 times), liberals (opposite of conservatives in politics, 1062 times), “olympic” (1100 times), “nationalists”
(931 times), “juifs” (French for “Jews”, 746 times), “guerra” (Spanish for “war”, 601 times),
“reich” (like in “The Third Reich”, 627 times), Mexican (610 times), “republicans” (562 times), “racially” (adverb for “related to race”, 442 times), “allemagne” (French for
“Germany”, 336 times), “memorial” (403 times), , “immigrati” (Italian for “immigrants”, 385 times), supremacist (like in “white supremacist”, 371 times), “gunman” (179 times),
“renaissance” (188 times), “neighborhood” (172 times), “slavic” (83 times). The Italian word
“religione” is actually used 82 times. Still, words are more related to politics (the English part to American politics), nationalities, racism, and violence.
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The word “olympics” is mentioned because of the success African people have at running in the Olympic games today and because of the famous African American Jesse Owens who won some gold medals for running at the Olympic Games in Berlin in 1936 [50]. There seems to be some controversy whether Adolf Hitler behaved rude to him or not, like mentioned in line 4792:
“('Stormfront', '897814', 'ProudkiwiNZL', 'Quote: Originally Posted by ProudkiwiNZL This damn story again. Even many lemmings know that Hitler never snubbed Jessie Owens, it was in fact the "great" FDR who ignored him. Just before every summer Olympics, the Jew media has to run a hundred, "Hitler snubbed Jesse Owens" stories. An excuse to further brainwash the sheeple. .', 'JamesMiller', '07-03-2012, 12:45 AM')”
Voluntary neighbourhood work and physical training are connected to keeping the white human body in shape and adoring it. The following text would have been more innocent and normal if the word “white” had been dropped. The text implies namely with that
race-connoted word that non-White bodies are not so great, like in line 3846:
“('Stormfront', '897585', '(…)The White human body is absolutely stunning. It has been marveled by all the words greatest cultures. Our people have scultped it, drawn it, painted it, and sought to adorn it. At the same time, seeing an unhealthy representation of this beautiful creation pains my soul. We have been given this beautiful gift of body, we must cherish it and exercise it. Exercise as a family, take family walks, do neighborhood service together. I will not go into all the benefits of exercise in this post, however among the many benefits you will find, happiness, well being, stronger heart, mind, reduced stress, and increased intelligence.
We are a beautiful people, we were meant to be healthy, our bodies were designed to function a certain way. Obesty is not natural. The majority of obesity is a direct result from a lack of self control, laziness, and a lack of exercise. (…), 'ConcernedMajority', '07-02-2012, 01:31 AM')”
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