CEP Managing Director Madeleine Joelson and CEP Managing Director Daniel Roth write: "The United Kingdom just banned Hizb-ut Tahrir (HT), an extremist Islamist group with affiliates in at least 32 countries, including the United States, that calls for re-establishing the Islamic Caliphate and implementing Sharia (Islamic law). Given its outsized role in radicalizing several convicted terrorists, including notorious ISIS executioner “Jihadi John,” HT Britain has a far more notorious reputation than its still-active Transatlantic cousin, HT America."

"Women’s traditional roles within ISIS have made it hard for some returnees to understand why they were prosecuted, wrote Sofia Koller, a senior research analyst at the Counter Extremism Project, a non-profit organisation based in New York. In the chapter on Germany, Ms Koller quotes one woman as saying: 'I only cooked, had babies, was sitting the whole day in a madafa [a women’s guest house] and then married the next one.'"

"Germany can only insist on that connection over and over again, Hans-Jakob Schindler, a Middle East expert at the international organization Counter Extremism Project, told DW. Israeli repopulation plans in the Gaza Strip, proposed by two members of the Israeli cabinet, would be 'the best recipe for Islamist extremism to take firm root in the future among Palestinians in Gaza and probably beyond.'"

CEP Senior Director Dr. Hans-Jakob Schindler: "Combating Hamas militarily must not only be a goal. Terrorism expert Hans-Jakob Schindler also demands that the sources of income of the terrorist organization, which has an extensive support network, be effectively prevented."

"Hans-Jacob Schindler, senior director at the Counter Extremism Project (CEP), said ammonium nitrate – which is also used as a fertilizer - is the “'explosive of choice' for making quick and cheap improvised explosive devices.

Overall, Schindler believes there are around 10,000 people in Germany who 'broadly agree with what Hamas does and are willing to take part in demonstrations, raise funds and share propaganda.'

Asked if Hamas’ presence would expand in the wake of the October 7 attacks, Schindler said: 'Yes, it has grown already.'"

"The Houthis are described by the Counter Extremism Project (CEP), an organisation which works to combat extremist groups and ideologies, as 'an Iranian-backed, Shiite Muslim armed religious and political movement in Yemen'."

"'There is insufficient recognition in the [EU] text of the Hamas atrocity that started this round of conflict,' said Fitton-Brown, who is now an adviser to the Counter Extremism Project, a non-profit group based in Germany and the US.

'There is also insufficient recognition of Hamas' explicit commitment to treat any ceasefire as an opportunity to regroup and do it again; with the ultimate aim of killing Jews and destroying the state of Israel. This needs to be stated upfront,' he said."

"'It's one of the crazy things — the Houthis say this is an operation against Israeli interests, but it's not at all. The Israelis have almost no interests in the Red Sea, and the Houthis are simply harming poor Egyptians,' Edmund Fitton-Brown, a former British ambassador to Yemen and an advisor to the Counter Extremism Project — a group based in Germany and the US, told EUobserver."