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Mark Wallace, CEO of the Counter Extremism Project, said it was difficult to know how many LGBT men and women had been killed by IS, but the practice was well documented. "The targeting, persecution and killing of LGBT [people] in Isis-controlled...
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CEP President Frances Townsend on C-SPAN
CEP President Frances Townsend Speaks on C-SPAN's Washington Journal After Orlando Terror Attack.
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Attacks like Sunday's mass shooting in Orlando, Florida, bring public shock and frustration along with a return to questions about what the government can do to prevent something similar from happening again. Marielle Harris, a senior researcher at...
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CEP Spokeswoman Tara Maller discussed the tragic attack in an Orlando, Florida gay nightclub in an interview with NOS television in the Netherlands.
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With a death toll of 49, the Orlando nightclub tragedy is the nation's worst mass shooting in history. CEP Executive Director David Ibsen commented was interviewed about the tragedy and its possible impacts on American society VOA's Carolyn Presutti...
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CEP President Fran was interviewed on MSNBC, providing valuable insights into the attack at an Orlando, Florida gay nightclub that resulted in the deaths of 49 people.
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CEP Research Analyst Marielle Harris was interviewed by BBC Radio about the attack at an Orlando, Floriida gay nightclub. “We know that Mateen was bipolar and that he was reported to have hit his wife. We also know that he was questioned by the FBI...
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Reeling from the worst attack on American soil since 9/11, the US authorities believe at this stage that Omar Mateen was probably a deranged lone gunman who simply took the Isis name as a badge rather than being a trained operative of the group. “The...
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CEP President Fran Townsend was interviewed on CSPAN about what led up to the mass shooting at a gay club in Orlando, Florida, in which 50 people died, including the gunman.
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CEP President Frances Townsend and Michael German, former FBI officer, are interviewed on CNBC TV and discuss the difficulty in connecting the dots of terrorists' digital networks .
The Counter Extremism Project Presents
Enduring Music: Compositions from the Holocaust
Marking International Holocaust Remembrance Day, the Counter Extremism Project's ARCHER at House 88 presents a landmark concert of music composed in ghettos and death camps, performed in defiance of resurgent antisemitism. Curated with world renowned composer, conductor, and musicologist Francesco Lotoro, the program restores classical, folk, and popular works, many written on scraps of paper or recalled from memory, to public consciousness. Featuring world and U.S. premieres from Lotoro's archive, this concert honors a repertoire that endured against unimaginable evil.