Google is refusing to stop its enhanced search function helping users to access lectures by a Muslim cleric dubbed the pied piper of jihad, despite acting against other offensive material. Julie Shain, director of research at the Counter Extremism Project (CEP), said: “This incentivises people to search for these things and suggests it’s normal to do so. In combination with the thousands of videos and pages calling for attacks on the West, it’s incredibly dangerous — we’ve found evidence of about 90 instances of terrorists who’ve attacked Western targets who were influenced by Awlaki material online.”