Independent Journal: ISIS Has a Favorite Car Brand…You May Actually Have One Parked in Your Driveway
Japan’s Toyota Motor Corporation is one of the single largest car manufacturers on the planet. But now they’ve got to answer some questions about why their trucks are so popular with one particular group. The international terrorist group in Syria and Iraq, ISIS, relies on a fleet of Toyota pickup trucks on their front lines. Their modified vehicles typically use a mounted machine gun for quick strikes, allowing them to move in and out of a combat zone to maximize their effectiveness.
The Toyota Helix and Land Cruiser models have become ISIS’s most effective tool.
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.