CEP in the News

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June 20, 2023

"'PIJ is dedicated to eradicating Israel and establishing an autonomous Islamic Palestinian state in the lands currently comprising Israel, the West Bank, and Gaza. PIJ believes that the land of Palestine is consecrated for Islam, that Israel usurped...

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June 20, 2023

"Last year, Alexander Ritzmann, the Berlin head of the Counter Extremism Project, warned that the problem would grow if neonazi groups with ties to Ukrainian fascist militias such as III.Weg (“Third Path”), which has trained and invited speakers from...

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June 20, 2023

CEP Senior Advisor writes: "Nonetheless, western media has come to develop a sort of Azov obsession, buoyed by a complete lack of nuance in the reporting around this group. One key factor missing in all of the analyses of the Azov: the difference...

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June 20, 2023

"Dr. Hans-Jakob Schindler, Sr. Director of the Counter Extremism Project takes a look at the key question; Are Terror Attacks Looming?"

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June 15, 2023

"'The [U.N.] monitoring team goes to great lengths to try to triangulate information, and it publishes things that it's reasonably confident of, and that goes through a rigorous editorial process,' Edmund Fitton-Brown, a former senior United Nations...

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June 15, 2023

"Some analysts believe that terrorist financing has flourished because South African authorities have become too comfortable with the absence of any visible Islamic activities in South Africa. “I don’t think South Africa realized that. It was the...

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June 15, 2023

"Bill welcomes back to the show Generation Jihad regular Ambassador Edmund Fitton-Brown. Now a member of the Counter Extremism Project’s advisory board, Edmund previously served as the UK’s Ambassador to Yemen and later as the coordinator of the U.N...

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June 14, 2023

"On this week’s episode of 'The Hunt with WTOP national security correspondent J.J. Green,' Hans-Jacob Schindler, senior director at the Counter Extremism Project, discusses how propaganda from terror groups works."

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June 14, 2023

"Our team spoke to terrorism expert Gregory Waters, who documents the Islamic State group’s activities for the Counter Extremism Project. Our interview with him has been transcribed below and lightly edited for clarity and length."

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June 13, 2023

"Some analysts have suggested that jihadist financing flourished because South African authorities grew complacent at the lack of visible Islamist activity. 'I don't think South Africa realised it. It was the Americans who said, 'something not okay...

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Extremists: Their Words. Their Actions.

Fact:

On April 3, 2017, the day Vladimir Putin was due to visit the city, a suicide bombing was carried out in the St. Petersburg metro, killing 15 people and injuring 64. An al-Qaeda affiliate, Imam Shamil Battalion, claimed responsibility. 

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