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"Jedním z hlavních motivů tisíců mužů a žen z celého světa, kteří jezdí od loňského února pomoci bránit Ukrajinu, je pomoc slabšímu v nerovném boji. „V této válce jsme my Tálibán,“ slyšel opakovaně ve svých rozhovorech s cizinci bojujícími v řadách ukrajinských jednotek polský vědec Kacper Rekawek odkaz mnoha veteránů afghánské války."
"The non-profit Counter-Extremism Project noted in a March analysis note that the number of attacks carried out by ISIS-K appeared to drop earlier in the year, as did its propaganda initiatives to build international cache for its organization. The project attributes the drop to weather conditions as Afghanistan experiences the coldest winter in 15 years, as well as some successful Taliban operations to target and contain the group."
CEP non-resident fellow Kacper Rekawek quoted: "'Het nieuwe Azov', zo noemt Kacper Rekawek de 3deAanvalsbrigade dan ook. Rekawek is een Poolsewetenschapper die van geen greintje sympathie voorRusland kan worden verdacht. Hij is een autoriteit op vlakvan extremisme en liet zich zeker niet door Moskou leidenbij het schrijven van zijn recentste rapport. Daarin vermeldthij dat er ook moslims en een Afro-Amerikaan bij dat nieuweAzov strijden — en die brigade dus maar moeilijk integraalals extreemrechts bestempeld kan worden. Maar hij ziet ooktekenen dat de leiding die nog steeds probeert te gebruikenvoor ideologisch gewin."
"Un estudio del Proyecto Contra el Extremismo (CEP), organización con sede en Oslo, analiza el papel del grupo de voluntarios desplazados hasta a Kiev desde países de todo el mundo, incluido España, para defender la nación de Volodímir Zelenski frente a la agresión rusa."
"'It means we need to be perfect 100% of the time. They need to be perfect only once,' said Hans-Jakob Schindler, Sr. Director of the Counter Extremism Project, in an interview.
Schindler said terror groups are essentially waiting for the right opportunity to attack western countries.
...'In their eyes, they defeated the international community in Afghanistan,' he said. 'They defeated the international community and French forces, which are withdrawing from West Africa. In the grand scheme of things, the jihadists really feel they have the upper hand right now.'"
"On this week’s edition of 'The Hunt with WTOP national security correspondent J.J. Green,' Dr. Hans-Jakob Schindler, senior director of the Counter Extremism Project, says Germans are shocked and worried."
Dr. Schindler said: "This is absolutely not the norm. Because we have strict gun control laws, mass shootings—unless they're terrorism related—really don't happen in Germany."
"Last year, members of the Nationalist Social Club / NSC 131, which is described as a neo-Nazi group by both the Counter Extremism Project and the Anti-Defamation League (ADL), hung a banner that read 'Keep Boston Irish' along the South Boston St. Patrick's Day Parade's route."
"The NSC is a loose network of small chapters acting under their own rules, according to the Counter Extremism Project, a non-partisan international policy group that combats extremist threats. NSC is also known as NSC-131; the 131 is alphanumeric code for a-c-a, or anti-communist action, according to the Counter Extremism Project."
CEP Senior Advisor Dr. Hany Farid and Brandie Nonnecke write: "These cases set a promising precedent for how to make platforms safer. When attempts to rein in online abuses focus on third-party content and Section 230, they become mired in thorny free-speech issues that make it hard to effect meaningful change. But if litigators, judges, and regulators side-step these content issues and instead focus on product liability, they will be getting at the root of the problem. Holding platforms accountable for negligent design choices that encourage and monetize the creation and proliferation of harmful content is the key to addressing many of the dangers that persist online."
"In January, Prof Ian Acheson of the Counter Extremism Project called on the UK to use existing laws and set up special courts to expedite the arrest, prosecution and punishment of people whose actions have a disproportionate effect on the public."
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