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When two ISIS terrorists killed a Catholic priest in Normandy, France one year ago, it initially appeared to be an isolated incident. It was later found that both attackers were guided by an ISIS recruiter using an encrypted “chat” room on Telegram...
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ISIS’s loss of Mosul after a three-year reign of terror does not end the group’s presence in Iraq and Syria, nor its ability to spread its extremist ideology targeting women, gay people, and members of other religions through affiliates in Africa and...
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On July 14, 2016, 31-year-old Tunisian Mohamed Lahouajej-Bouhlel rammed a truck into a crowd of people watching a Bastille Day fireworks display in Nice, France, killing 86 people. In the year since the Nice attack, at least nine high-profile...
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Qatar continues to host terrorists from various extremist groups, including the Taliban, the terror group that once ruled Afghanistan and shielded Osama bin Laden, posing a continuing threat to regional and international security, CEP said in...
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Several days after the June 29, 2014, declaration of a caliphate spanning large areas of eastern Syria and western Iraq, ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi delivered his first sermon as "Caliph Ibrahim" from the pulpit of al-Nuri mosque in Mosul. Three...
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Manchester suicide bomber Salman Abedi reportedly watched bomb-making videos on Google-owned YouTube, according to a June 24 report in The Times. This revelation demonstrates the consequences of tech companies’ failure to sufficiently address the...
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The ongoing diplomatic standoff between Qatar and its neighbors has roots in that country’s long-standing support for the Muslim Brotherhood and other extremist groups, symbolized by the hosting and supporting of Yusuf al-Qaradawi, the Brotherhood’s...
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CEP issued a statement in response to Google’s announcement of its plans to fight terrorism online. Google's announcement follows months of continuing pressure from EU regulators as well as advertisers, who pulled business from Google-owned YouTube...
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CEP issued a statement in response to Facebook’s published blog pledging to develop new technology to root out extremists on its platform. While commending the objective, CEP noted that Facebook's messages were vague, lacking in terms of specifics...
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CEP called on Qatar to cease its financial and political support for the terror group Hamas, whose mismanagement, corruption, and neglect has brought crushing poverty to the people of Gaza in the 10 years since it violently took control of the...
Extremists: Their Words. Their Actions.
Fact:
On October 7, 2023, Hamas invaded southern Israel where, in the space of eight hours, hundreds of armed terrorists perpetrated mass crimes of brutality, rape, and torture against men, women and children. In the biggest attack on Jewish life in a single day since the Holocaust, 1,200 were killed, and 251 were taken hostage into Gaza—where 101 remain. One year on, antisemitic incidents have increased by record numbers.
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