Experts from the Counter Extremism Project emphasize that disrupting propaganda networks is essential for long-term counter-terrorism success, as it curtails recruitment and funding streams.

Outside Europe, the Muslim Brotherhood's fundamental relationship to violence is tactical in nature, and the organization is always prepared to use violence to achieve its goals, says terrorism expert Hans-Jakob Schindler from the research organization Counter Extremism Project. The terrorist group Hamas, for example, is the Palestinian offshoot of the Muslim Brotherhood.

“Hamas was founded as the Egyptian arm of the Muslim Brotherhood and has made this very clear in its Charter of 1987,” Hans-Jakob Schindler, Senior Director of the Counter Extremism Project, tells The Cipher Brief. “The political statement of Hamas of 2017 did not mention this link specifically, but it also did not state that Hamas would be independent. Hence, Hamas remains part of the Muslim Brotherhood network.”

On this week’s episode of “The Hunt with WTOP National Security Correspondent J.J. Green,” Dr. Hans Jakob-Schindler, senior director at the Counter Extremism Project, says terrorists covet open locations for attacks.

[CEP Senior Director] Hans-Jakob Schindler, former counterterrorism coordinator for the UN Security Council and member of the German Federal Ministry of the Interior's “Advisory Group on Preventing and Combating Islamism,” told WELT: “In recent years, ISPK has emerged as the offshoot that is most actively attempting to carry out attacks abroad.” … Although ISPK does not control its own territory, unlike other IS provinces—such as those in West Africa—it has established itself as a robust underground structure in Afghanistan, according to Schindler. This makes ISPK one of the most active and strategically flexible offshoots of the global IS network abroad. According to US intelligence services, it is also one of the “deadliest.”

In an interview with ZDFheute live, extremism expert Hans-Jakob Schindler also sees this as a warning signal for Western security authorities.

Following the attack in Sydney, terrorism expert [CEP Senior Director] Hans-Jakob Schindler warns that the abstract threat of terrorism in Germany remains high: “We have IS and Al-Qaeda networks that continue to try to spread their narrative on German social media.”’

For terrorism expert Hans-Jakob Schindler, one thing is clear: anti-Semitism has long since followed its own rules. He told Nau.ch: "The rapid increase in anti-Semitic incidents in Europe, North America and Australia is closely linked to the situation in the Middle East."

"That a father and son would carry out such an attack is certainly a distinctive feature," says terrorism expert Hans-Jakob Schindler, director of the Counter Extremism Project, in an interview with the Munich-based newspaper Merkur, published by Ippen.Media.