CEP Executive Director David Ibsen and CEP Senior Advisor Lucinda Creighton writes: "The Christchurch Call is a commendable initiative that can fulfill its initial promise. We cannot continue to sit back and hope the problem of online extremist media and propaganda solves itself, and the Call is an important tool to ensure responsible content removal policies and accountability for Big Tech. One hopes Ardern’s critical attitude towards the industry is carried over to her new role."

CEP Senior Advisor Ian Acheson writes: "The real reason that Prevent could never gain traction within Northern Ireland is because there is a hierarchy of violent extremism which cannot be disturbed because of the political demographics and cultural ambiguities of a place where violent extremism is not only tolerated, but glamourised. The largest political party in the NI Assembly, Sinn Fein, is inextricably, indeed proudly, linked to a terrorist organisation and police forces either side of the border believe it is still ultimately controlled by the IRA’s Army Council."

CEP Senior Director Dr. Hans-Jakob Schindler interviewed: "I would say it's a very significant operation because it really shows how deep the support networks for the Islamic State in Germany still run. It is a financial network that openly collected funds to send to IS members in prison in camps in Syria to most likely, that's the assertion from the prosecutor, free them with that money from those camps so they can reintegrate into the terrorism structure."

CEP Strategic Advisor writes: "The rumblings began before the book was even published. When the book came out in January though, Bergeaud-Blackler, no stranger to sensitive subjects, could not have anticipated the response. The denunciations came thick and fast, some from Islamist sympathisers in the media and academic sphere, some from those who believed they were defending Muslims against a bigoted screed. The author’s conference at the Sorbonne was cancelled (since rescheduled) without a proper explanation. As the controversy grew, death threats arrived."

CEP Research Analyst Gregory Waters interviewed: "This attack occurred in an area outside Sukhnah that has, according to security forces, long been controlled by ISIS, for many years. The fact that they were in an area controlled by ISIS supports the idea that it was ISIS that was behind the attack...  

Since the beginning of 2019, there's been over 900 confirmed ISIS attacks in central Syria. We are used to seeing ISIS as this group that has a very flashy media, that claims every single thing it does. But it's no longer holding territory...  

In 2020, we saw a huge uptick in ISIS attacks. And at this time, the ISIS cells were more concentrated in the really remote central core of the desert area. Now it's running an insurgency using small groups of well-armed militants driving around in motorcycles or pickup trucks with machine guns. They're doing hit and run attacks all the time, all over the place...

The frequency of attacks increases, the severity of the attacks increases. And finally there's this really big pushback from the regime, Russia, and Iran...

You also have the Iranians and Iranian-backed militias, which includes both Syrian militias, and Afghanistan and Pakistani foreign fighters, Lebanese Hezbollah, and Iraqi groups. So all of these groups are here, they're all spread together, they work together at times, they work separately at times, but they're spread throughout central Syria...

Sheep have been a really key financing opportunity for ISIS for several years now. Sometimes they kill the shepherds. Sometimes, they just steal the sheep. Then they take them and they sell them either on the black market or at regular sheep markets...

ISIS is most effective when no one can see its movements, of course, when no one can find its camps, its hideouts and caches. All of that's in danger when you have civilians wandering into these really remote areas. So what does the group do? They attack civilians...

Kidnappings often end with the bodies being found executed somewhere else. Executed is the word I use, because almost without fail the bodies are found lined up with bullet wounds to the head."             

CEP Strategic Advisor Liam Duffy writes: "In other ways, Lee Rigby’s murder was the kind of gruesome spectacle that al-Qaeda’s leadership would later warn against, but which Islamic State would make their hallmark. A gruesome spectacle, but a shoddy and amateurish one, too: Adebolajo and Adebowale rammed Lee Rigby with a Vauxhall Tigra before trying, and failing, to behead their victim. The rusty antique revolver they had acquired malfunctioned, and they were denied martyrdom by arriving armed police."

"'In 2021, ISIS-K was reduced to a couple of cells in the country and a very tiny, small stronghold in Kunar Province, and that was it. However, in the less than stellar handover procedure, in that chaos, the Taliban opened the prisons, including Bagram, which was a big mistake … they underestimated that there were also a couple of thousand ISIS-K members, who, once freed, just walked off,' said Hans-Jakob Schindler, senior director of the Counter Extremism Project, who served as a member and then as coordinator of the UN Security Council’s ISIL, al Qaeda and Taliban Monitoring Team.

'The organization was very diligently able to reestablish itself.'"

"On this week’s episode of The Hunt with WTOP national security correspondent J.J. Green, Dr. Hans-Jakob Schindler, Sr. Director at the Counter Extremism Project, says some of the content discusses a “race war” in the U.S."

"This is material that is, when you look for it and you know what to look for, very easy to find. Obviously on the global social media platforms, the algorithm helps. So if you identify one terrorist content, the algorithm actually suggests more terrorism content to you."

"Liam Duffy, an adviser to the Counter Extremism Project, said Islamist extremists should be perceived as 'more than a terrorist threat'. He said the UK should not fall into complacency despite no deaths from terrorism being recorded last year. 'There are long, long periods between terrorist attacks, between recruitment flows to overseas conflicts, where to our eyes nothing happens,' he said. 'But that’s not the case. There is a lot happening and we need to know what is happening.'"

"The PIJ is a Palestinian terrorist organisation committed to the destruction of Israel, says think tank Counter Extremism Project (CEP).

'PIJ is dedicated to eradicating Israel and establishing an autonomous Islamic Palestinian state in the lands currently comprising Israel, the West Bank, and Gaza. PIJ believes that the land of Palestine is consecrated for Islam, that Israel usurped Palestine, and, therefore, that Israel is an affront to God and Islam and that Palestine’s re-conquest is a holy task,' says CEP."