The Counter Extremism Project (CEP) today published a new policy brief, Prosecution of German Women Returning from Syria and Iraq: Insights and Recommendations for Policymakers and Security Agencies, the first in a series of papers analyzing the...
CEP Senior Research Analyst Sofia Koller and policy paper quoted: "Während die Männer für den IS in den Krieg zogen, bemühten sich die Frauen, dem Rollenbild der radikalen Islamisten gerecht zu werden: einen Kämpfer zu heiraten, ihm zu dienen und möglichst Kinder zu gebären. Aber war das wirklich alles, was sie im selbstgewählten Exil hielt? Einen Aufschluss darüber können die Urteile deutscher Gerichte gegen Rückkehrerinnen geben. Sofia Koller vom Counter Extremism Project (CEP), einer gemeinnützigen internationalen Organisation zur Bekämpfung extremistischer Ideologien, hat sich mit der Strafverfolgung solcher aus IS-Gebieten zurückgekehrter Frauen in einer nun veröffentlichten Studie auseinandergesetzt."
CEP Senior Director Dr. Hans-Jakob Schindler interviewed.
Last week, German city-state Bremen shut down the Al-Mustafa Community Center, citing the organization’s close association with Hezbollah and its calls for acts of terrorism against Israel. The order from German officials effectively prohibits the...
The financing of violent right-wing extremist organizations and actors has increasingly become the focus of policy discussions. In 2020, the Counter Extremism Project (CEP), commissioned by the German Federal Foreign Office, published a comprehensive...
This week, Google filed a lawsuit in administrative court in Germany to challenge a portion of the country’s expanded 2018 Network Enforcement Act (NetzDG). NetzDG regulates online content moderation and requires online platforms to remove...
A string of attacks in France throughout 2020; the attack by an ISIS supporter in Vienna, Austria, on November 2, 2020, which killed two and injured 23; as well as the arrests on February 12, 2021, in Denmark and Germany of 14 members belonging to an...
On Wednesday, a German court sentenced a radical Islamic preacher known as Abu Walaa to more than 10 years in prison for his role in planning a terrorist attack in Germany, while also fundraising and recruiting for ISIS. Walaa recruited at least...
On April 30, Germany took the long overdue step of designating Hezbollah in its entirety as a terrorist group. It is past time that the European Union update its own designation of Hezbollah and ban the group in its entirety in order to limit its...
On New Year’s Eve in Cologne, Germany, a group of some 1,000 young men congregated outside the city’s main railway station near the Cologne Cathedral and systematically began to physically and sexually assault women.
Extremists: Their Words. Their Actions.
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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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