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The Not Really New Hamas Political Platform

In a bid to better its international standing, Hamas unveiled its new political platform May 1 in Qatar. Despite what are being marketed as ideological compromises, the new document is depressingly similar to its old political platform. What it...

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April 27, 2017

ISIS’s Systematic Brutality Against Religious Communities Continues

As Pope Francis prepares for a peace-building trip to Egypt, CEP released a new report detailing the extent of ISIS’s ongoing campaign of genocidal violence and incendiary rhetoric against Muslims, Yazidis, Christians, and Mandaeans, and other...

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April 20, 2017

ISIS and Al-Qaeda, Linked by Roots in Muslim Brotherhood, Discuss Alliance

Rivals ISIS and al-Qaeda, are reportedly discussing forging an alliance. Although they split in 2014 and have been competing since, CEP notes that their shared origins in the Muslim Brotherhood and its ideology based on the writings of Sayyid Qutb...

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The AKP may lose even if Erdogan wins

Turkish voters will decide on April 16 whether their country’s parliamentary system, where the prime minister is chosen by elected lawmakers, should be replaced by a presidential model with a strong executive. Should the constitutional referendum...

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April 13, 2017

CEP Spokesperson Tara Maller on MSNBC

CEP Spokesperson and Senior Policy Advisor Tara Maller spoke on MSNBC about chemical attacks in Syria.

Press Release

April 12, 2017

ISIS Church Bombings Fit Pattern of Targeting Christian, Jewish Sites

The April 9 ISIS bombings at two Coptic Christian churches in Egypt that killed 49 people fit a grisly pattern of extremists targeting Christian and Jewish sites, CEP noted, in releasing its new analysis report, Terror Targets in the West: Where and...

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April 7, 2017

CEP Condemns Truck Attack in Stockholm, Releases Resource on Vehicles as Terror Weapons

CEP today released a statement in response to a vehicular attack in downtown Stockholm, Sweden, and a new resource on the use of cars and trucks as weapons of terrorism. The resource notes that attacks using vehicles were carried out beginning in...

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Cars and Trucks as Weapons of Terror

On March 22, 2017, terrorist assailant Khalid Masood killed five people during a vehicle and stabbing attack in London. The following day, a similar attack was thwarted in Antwerp, Belgium. On April 7, another assailant carried out a suspected...

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April 5, 2017

CEP Spokesperson Tara Maller on Fox Business

CEP Spokesperson and Senior Policy Advisory Tara Maller speaks with Fox's Neil Cavuto regarding Trump administration's foreign policy.

Press Release

April 4, 2017

New Handbook to Assist German Educators with Radicalisation, Complex Cultural Issues

CEP and the European Foundation for Democracy (EFD), at an event held in Berlin, Germany, today announced the publication of a handbook designed to help German educators understand and properly respond to difficult and sensitive cultural and...

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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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