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July 24, 2020

CEP Advisor Liam Duffy writes: "This danger will not be short-lived. The long arc of jihadism inside Britain stretches back 30 years when large numbers of British mujahideen left these shores to fight in Bosnia, Somalia and Chechnya. Nearly 30 years...

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July 24, 2020

"The non-profit Counter Extremism Project believes there have been 51 incidents of vehicles used as a weapon in terror attacks around the world since 2006, with 197 killed as a result and 1,102 injured.”

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July 23, 2020

"This week on Lawfare's Arbiters of Truth series on disinformation, Evelyn Douek and Quinta Jurecic spoke with Hany Farid, a professor at the University of California, Berkeley, whose work focuses on analyzing and identifying altered photo and video...

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July 23, 2020

U.S. Moves To Stop Products Manufactured With Uighur-Forced Labor

The U.S. Department of Commerce blacklisted 11 Chinese firms this week accused of human rights violations. The companies were involved in using forced labor by Uighurs and other Muslim minority groups—a practice actively promoted by Beijing and which...

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July 22, 2020

Consensus Building Among Lawmakers That EU Must Designate Hezbollah In Its Entirety

Leaders of the European Union (EU) last week received an unprecedented letter from 235 lawmakers representing 30 nations and 25 EU member states, urging the body to ban Iran’s Lebanese proxy Hezbollah and designate it in its entirety as a terrorist...

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July 20, 2020

"A former officer in the army of Saddam Hussein, he joined the ranks of Al-Qaeda after the US invasion of Iraq and Hussein's capture in 2003, according to the Counter Extremism Project (CEP) think-tank."

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July 20, 2020

CEP Executive Director David Ibsen writes: "The repeated failure to properly regulate hate speech on social media platforms has consistently facilitated the radicalization of extremists across the nation. The ease of access to hyperviolent imagery...

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July 20, 2020

CEP Executive Director David Ibsen quoted: "Writing exclusively for the Daily Express today, counter terrorism chief and executive director of the CEP said: 'Research has uncovered direct ties between al-Awlaki and 99 other extremisms.'"

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July 20, 2020

CEP Advisor Liam Duffy writes: "Islamism is the particular name for a political ideology which seeks to establish an Islamic state. Its adherents range from those working within democracy to those willing to murder civilians to achieve this aim...

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July 19, 2020

"Through analysis of blockchain data, it is sometimes possible to identify an account holder with 'a high degree of mathematical certainty,' said Hans-Jakob Schindler, a senior director at the Counter Extremism Project, an international policy...

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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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