Boston man files lawsuit against white nationalist hate group. Charles Murrell III, a Black educator & musician, was playing his saxophone near a public library last year when Patriot Front members allegedly brutally attacked him during a march.
“Their algorithms are based on exploiting primal human emotions…and thus regularly promote and recommend white supremacist, anti-Semitic, and other forms of conspiracy-oriented content.” Something
@FightExtremism
advisers have argued for years.
“This could be the smartest and most dangerous way to organize right-wing targeted violence that I've seen for a long while.”
@alexRitzmann
(
@FightExtremism
@CEP_Germany
) spoke to
@VICENews
about the transnational Active Club movement. .
At least 46 so-called Active Clubs, which covertly advance fascist and neo-Nazi agendas and preparing for large-scale violence – have sprouted in 34 states between 2020 and 2023, according to
@FightExtremism
report, via the
@Independent
.
@DrHananAshwari
called “the issue of women being raped and children being beheaded” on October 7 as “all that nonsense.” No surprise she will be speaking at the pro-Hamas
@DohaForum
, Qatar in a week.
On June 2, 2020, Italy ratified agreement w/ Qatar that'll allow the country to fund orgs & build mosques throughout Italy. Rome's raised concerns Doha's increasing influence will empower Muslim Brotherhood to also expand operations throughout Italy.
Arizona court arraigns 18-year-old shot by a sheriff’s deputy after throwing rocks and brandishing a knife at a police station. He is facing two counts of terrorism.
Swedish prosecutors had said Monday the killing of a woman at a political festival on the island of Gotland would be investigated as a terrorist crime. Local media reported that the suspect had links to neo-Nazi group, Nordic Resistance Movement (NRM)
Spike in tensions between Pakistan and India over change of Kashmir’s status could complicate U.S. efforts to forge a peace deal with the Taliban in Afghanistan.
A group of neo-Nazis in Germany compiled a list of political opponents and ordered 200 body bags in preparation for collapse of the state, named Day X.
New Zealand has designated the Christchurch shooter as a “terrorist entity”, making it illegal to “participate or in or support his activities”. He joins the likes of Al-Shabaab, the IRA, and ISIS.
“The Active Clubs present themselves as groups of gym bros who pursue mixed martial arts — and just happen to dabble in white power.”
@7im
writes in
@RollingStone
, featuring CEP report authored by
@alexRitzmann
.
CEP has identified a channel on YouTube belonging to the Atomwaffen Division (AWD), a neo-Nazi group that advocates for a violent “white revolution.”
Last year, YouTube said it banned the group.
💻NEW Extremist Content Online
🔹The Base Calls for Cooperation Among White Supremacist Groups
🔹Eco-Fascist/Neo-Nazi Accelerationist Telegram Channels Post Tips for Destroying Communications Infrastructure
🔹Voice of Khorasan Issue 33 Released
🚨CEP Webinar | Western Foreign Fighters and the Yazidi Genocide
With:
@holland_tom
, award-winning historian, author, and broadcaster
@haiderelias
, president
@YazdaOrg
, leading Yazidi human rights NGO
@LiamSD12
CEP strategic adv & report author
RSVP:
Bad news for communities in Borno State: ISIS “mercenaries” have traveled from Libya and Syria to northeastern Nigeria. Over 200 recently-arrived terrorists will reportedly be providing support to Boko Haram faction ISWAP. Details:
Critics of an anti-terrorism bill set to be signed into law by Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte say it will terrorize the same conflict-affected communities it seeks to protect.
“Despite promising to crack down on antisemitic hate, Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Youtube and TikTok did not act on these posts even as they were flagged through the existing tools used for reporting malignant content.”
ISIS activity surged across the entire central Syrian Badia in September following a five-month drop in attacks.
Read
@GregoryPWaters
's "ISIS Redux: The Central Syria Insurgency in September 2021" via
@FightExtremism
An Albanian national with U.S. citizenship was arrested after he told a federal informant he wanted to join ISIS and plan a terror attack, including targeting a synagogue.
String of attacks on army troops, Bedouins, and tribal figures in the northeastern Egyptian territory of Sinai stoke fears of a possible resurgence of ISIS in the Sinai Peninsula
The trial is finally under way in Germany for a suspected ISIS member accused of genocide and murdering a Yazidi girl held as a slave. His wife, also charged with murdering the young Yazidi, has been on trial for a year in Munich.
Over the weekend, American neo-Nazi Lucas Gage, the former chairman of white nationalist hate group National Youth Front, went on an antisemitic rant on this very platform.
ISIS grew stronger in central Syria in 2020, many cells appear to have moved into the northeast in recent months. Experienced ISIS fighters bolstered the ongoing insurgency against the SDF there & likely played a role in the prison attack in Hasakah. More:
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@ColborneMichael
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With the assistance of the Haqqani Network, al-Qaeda has significantly reinvested in Afghanistan as a safe haven, according to analysts. For the past seven months, they have been developing their base of operations in the country
Today,
#France
announced the successful apprehension of Oumeya Ould Albakaye, a senior leader of the Islamic State in the Greater Sahara (ISGS), in the Niger-Mali border region
#ISIS
still commands between 5,000 and 7,000 fighters across former strongholds in
#Iraq
&
#Syria
and its affiliate in
#Afghanistan
poses the most serious terrorist threat, according to an expert panel’s report to the UN Security Council.
A bipartisan group of U.S. House lawmakers put forth a resolution that urges the European Union to “to fully designate Hezbollah a terrorist organization.”
Horrific.
#ISIS
militants dressed in Iraqi military uniforms attacked farming hamlet near Baghdad, killing 21 from brave local tribe that’s resisted the terror group.
“Unintentional”, “Inadvertent”. They say the contacts were not shared with anyone and Facebook was deleting them, but it's just… getting harder and harder to trust apologetic claims and belated efforts.
Hamas Official Ghazi Hamad: We Will Repeat the October 7 Attack Time and Again Until Israel Is Annihilated; We Are Victims - Everything We Do Is Justified
#Hamas
#Gaza
#Palestinians
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@CrexUiO
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@FightExtremism
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Mahmoud Afif Abdejallil, once considered a close associate of Osama bin Laden’s brother-in-law and an al-Qaeda financier, has been detained in the Philippines.
ISIS and al-Qaeda sanctions monitoring experts told the U.N. Security Council that ISIS is exploiting weaknesses in security in Syria and Iraq, even planning to seize detention facilities to release their fighters.
German special police forces arrest a suspected right-wing extremist and Bundeswehr member, uncovering a cache of illegal weapons. This comes amid heightened concern over extremism in the armed forces.
In his latest report,
@p_vanostaeyen
takes us through recent extremist propaganda on ISIS and al-Qaeda affiliated activities throughout the Sahel. Plus, a breakdown of attacks by each group and country. Read it via link.
CEP Advisor
@LiamSD12
examines why Islamism should be treated as political ideology and calls for greater attention to be paid to the political narratives of Islamist groups in preventing violent extremism.
Report launches December 10! RSVP for event:
French court today found all 14 defendants guilty of involvement in the 2015 attacks on Charlie Hebdo and a kosher supermarket on the outskirts of Paris. Details on charges:
Self-described white supremacist Christopher Hasson, the former Coast Guard lieutenant who was accused of plotting politically motivated killings, is seeking to withdraw his guilty plea.
Al-Qaeda camps are spreading rapidly in the Sahel region. On the border between
#Mali
,
#BurkinaFaso
, & the Ivory Coast—more than 20 jihadist camps popped up since July.
@SimNasr
provides concerning details via
@FRANCE24
CEP’s first webinar of 2023!
@FightExtremism
proudly invites you to a presentation of a new book by
@KacperRekawek
, “Foreign Fighters in Ukraine. The Brown–Red Cocktail”
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What gets lost in the discourse over westerners who joined ISIS is the plight of their victims. It’s problematic that the “victim/aggressor relationship” has been inverted.
@FightExtremism
advisor
@LiamSD12
in
@Daily_Express
:
Sweden’s prime minister writes in op-ed via
@FT
: “Sweden has entered into an agreement with Turkey in which the fight against terrorism is one of the key points.”
"Giving the Taliban a platform and allowing it to remain online in any capacity poses significant risks to public safety and security. This should not be a difficult decision.”
Former Canadian Armed Forces reservist Patrik Jordan Mathews taped himself advocating for killing people, poisoning water supplies and derailing trains, according to federal prosecutors.
In historic case in
#France
, a
#Paris
court has found Salah Abdeslam—the main defendant in the 2015 terror attacks—guilty of terrorism and murder charges. 18 others were convicted for their roles in the attacks