The CounterPoint Blog

November 19, 2015 Brian Stewart

Barbarism in Paris

Call it l’année de la terreur. The coordinated ISIS assault on Paris November 13 marks a grisly continuation of the terror campaign that the French republic has endured this year. This campaign began in earnest in January with joint attacks on the...

The Kids are All Right

In its very brief existence, and owing to a vast, sophisticated social media marketing apparatus, ISIS has succeeded in attracting fighters from far corners of the earth. There are at least 43,000 active pro-ISIS Twitter accounts operating today...

August 26, 2015 Supna Zaidi Peery

Jihadi v. Jihadi

At the funeral of a slain police officer, Ahmet Camur, Turkish President Recep Erdogan stated, “We bid a farewell to our martyr that we believe has reached martyrdom. How happy is his family, how happy his nears!” The cult of martyrdom is a well...