CEP in the News

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June 13, 2016

Reeling from the worst attack on American soil since 9/11, the US authorities believe at this stage that Omar Mateen was probably a deranged lone gunman who simply took the Isis name as a badge rather than being a trained operative of the group. “The...

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June 13, 2016

CEP President Fran Townsend was interviewed on CSPAN about what led up to the mass shooting at a gay club in Orlando, Florida, in which 50 people died, including the gunman.

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June 13, 2016

CEP President Frances Townsend and Michael German, former FBI officer, are interviewed on CNBC TV and discuss the difficulty in connecting the dots of terrorists' digital networks .

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June 12, 2016

Thought puzzle for liberals: Does calling ISIS “homophobic” qualify as “Islamophobia?” Seems that way given the scant media attention to the group’s murderous persecution of gays since they rose to power. But a little-noticed report issued this month...

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June 12, 2016

The suspect in the mass shooting at an LGBT nightclub in Orlando, Florida, has been named by officials as 29-year-old American citizen, Omar Mateen. The Counter Extremism Project (CEP) issued a statement on 12 June in response to the deadly Sunday...

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June 12, 2016

Tara Maller of the Counter Extremism Project joined MSNBC's Brian Williams to provide updates on the shooting at the Orlando nightclub, and explained how the United States might prevent future mass shootings.

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June 12, 2016

Fifty people were killed and 53 injured when 29-year-old U.S. citizen Omar Mateen opened fire inside gay night club Pulse, in Orlando, Florida. Gary Adshead spoke to Marielle Harris from the Counter Extremism Project about whether this attack was...

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June 12, 2016

This article about the killing of 49 people at an Orlando, Florida, gay nightclub quotes heavly from CEP's research report, "ISIS's Persecution of the Gay Community."

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May 31, 2016

CEP Spokesperson and Senior Policy Advisor Tara Maller offered expert analysis of both the military and civilian dimensions of the continuing battle for Fallujah, a city in the majority Sunni area of western Iraq that has been held by ISIS for...

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May 19, 2016

CEP Senior Policy Advisor Tara Maller discusses the EgyptAir Crash with MSNBC host Chris Matthews.

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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