International Business Times UK: Isis Recruiting Youngsters with Grand Theft Auto-style Video Game
Islamic militants are using violent video games with scenes of violence and killing to entice young men and women into their ranks.
The sophistication and money that Isis have spent on social media and PR has surprised many in the West. A new U.S-based research group, the Counter Extremism Project is soon to release to governments and media outlets a database of information about militants and their supporters.
The Counter Extremism Project believes that Isis is generating a great deal of wealth – it's thought to have stockpiled around £1billion - from shady deals with morally compromised companies.
Risk management group Maplecroft believes that Isis controls half a dozen oil fields in Syria and four in Iraq, with many officials convinced it's making millions from smuggling barrels to Turkey, Iran and Iraq.
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.