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  • ISIS Online: U.S. Rights and Responsibilities

    Technology companies often justify their inaction in the face of widespread misuse of their services by citing free expression and/or privacy concerns. This report seeks to analyze the validity of such claims.
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  • ISIS's Persecution of Religions

    Since 2014, ISIS has demonized, threatened and persecuted religious minorities. This report explores the ideological justifications for ISIS’s violent campaign to target—and ultimately eliminate—other religious communities.
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  • ISIS's Persecution of Women

    According to Iraqi reports, ISIS has executed hundreds of Muslim women and their relatives for refusing to marry ISIS fighters. ISIS has brutal disregard for women within its territorial control.
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  • ISIS’s Persecution of Gay People

    ISIS exploits pre-existing religious and social biases against gay people among the populations under its control in order to justify their persecution.
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  • James Mason’s Siege: Ties to Extremists

    Siege is an anthology of violent pro-Nazi and pro-Charles Manson essays written by American neo-Nazi James Mason in the 1980s and first published as a single volume in 1992. The book has since inspired a generation of neo-Nazis who have formed a violent online subculture.
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  • Khomeinism

    Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini’s Islamist, populist agenda—dubbed “Khomeinism” by scholar Ervand Abrahamian—has radicalized and guided Shiite Islamists both inside and outside Iran.
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  • Libya's Fight for Survival: Defeating Jihadist Networks

    This publication is a compilation of four different essays that focus on radicalization in Libya. The essays assess the current on-the-ground situation. They identify and analyze patterns and trends as well as specific local and regional developments.
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  • Looks can be deceiving: Extremism meets paramilitarism in Central and Eastern Europe

    This report is the result of the author’s work on a variety of endeavors with CEP, namely a 2020-21 research project on radical foreign fighters in Ukraine and a project on the transnational connectivity of the Western extreme right.
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  • Marching home? Why repatriating foreign terrorist fighters is a pan-European priority

    Since the fall of ISIS’s caliphate, hundreds of European FTFs and their families remain incarcerated in overcrowded, insecure and unsanitary prisons and camps in Syria and Iraq. Nonetheless, there is a broad European resistance to the idea of bringing ‘dangerous traitors’ home.
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  • Members of the Taliban’s Interim Government

    Following the Taliban’s takeover of Afghanistan in August 2021, the movement claimed it would take on a more moderate and inclusive approach in their ruling of the country. However, the Taliban announced appointments within their caretaker government that resembled the regime of the 1990s.
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  • Muslim Brotherhood on U.S. Campuses

    While the Internet is filled with false accusations and conspiracy theories regarding Brotherhood infiltration at the highest levels of the U.S. government, it is nonetheless accurate to note the Brotherhood’s involvement in Muslim-Americans’ university life dates back to the 1960s.
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  • OK Google, Show Me Extremism: Analysis of YouTube’s Extremist Video Takedown Policy and Counter-Narrative Program

    In August 2018, CEP reviewed a total of 649 YouTube videos for extremist and counter-narrative content. The result highlights the extent of the enduring problem of terrorist content on YouTube.
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Daily Dose

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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