U.S. National Security Advisor Points to Qutbism as Fueling Violent Jihad

Recently, U.S. National Security Advisor General H.R. McMaster named Turkey and Qatar as the main funders of radical Islamist ideology and referred to the importance of severing funds to extremist ideologies like Salafism and Qutbism. CEP Exective...

Vehicle Attacks in Berlin, U.K., Spain, and U.S. Encouraged by ISIS Propaganda

CEP Executive Director David Ibsen released a statement on the one-year anniversary of the ISIS-inspired truck attack on a Christmas market in Berlin, Germany, that read in part: "Since ISIS spokesman Abu Muhammad al-Adnani implored followers to kill...

ISIS’s Struggling Media Strategy

ISIS’s media arm is struggling to find a way to report on the group’s recent military encounters, specifically its humiliating losses to the Syrian and Iraqi armies in Abu Kamal and al-Qaim, respectively. This problem is clearly reflected by ISIS’s...

CEP Spokesperson Tara Maller on Fox News

CEP Spokesperson and Senior Policy Advisor Tara Maller discusses attempted terror attack at New York City's Port Authority and extremist content online.

Sir Ivor Roberts on Sky News

CEP Advisory Board Member and former Head of Counter-Terrorism in the UK's Foreign Office, Sir Ivor Roberts discusses intelligence report that MI5 should improve data sharing.

Radoslaw Sikorski interview on Sky News

Former Polish defence & foreign minister Radoslaw Sikorski responds to British foreign secretary Boris Johnson's speech on the fight against terrorism.

ISIS-Inspired Terrorist Explodes Bomb in New York City Subway Passage

CEP released a statement in response to an attempted terrorist attack near the Port Authority Bus Terminal in New York City during the morning's rush hour that read in part: “This morning’s attempted terror attack reminds us of the influence that...

ISIS cyber-hacker Junaid Hussain has left behind a legacy of hate that spans the globe and continues to haunt the online world after his death. David Ibsen, director of the Counter Extremism Project, a US-based group combating terrorism and...

The world's most popular blogging platform has come under fire for continuing to host banned neo-Nazi group Scottish Dawn.Despite being put on a list of forbidden organisations, after being revealed as an alias of the far-right National Action...

The Counter Extremism Project (CEP), an international not-for-profit group, said it was “deeply troubling” that WordPress, owned by San Francisco-based Automattic, continued to provide an online platform for the group. David Ibsen, executive director...