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WASHINGTON, DC – Former Sen. Joseph Lieberman and retired General Charles Wall laid out their visions for the “the way forward” regarding the United States’ policy on Iran during a panel discussion at the National Press Club on Tuesday.

The government should not “criminalise thought”, the UK’s terror watchdog has said, after ministers revealed new laws criminalising viewing “extreme” online material following a wave of Islamist attacks.

TEL AVIV – Muslims in the West must renounce extremism and fanatical ideas and start expressing more gratitude towards their host nations, a Jordanian journalist wrote in an Arabic-language oped translated this week by MEMRI.

British universities hosted 110 events featuring radical speakers in the last academic year, 2016/17, with the highest proportion taking place in London institutions, a report has found.

An extremist Islamic preacher, who has promoted violence, helped to recruit Muslim foster carers in London earlier this year.

At least one in five Brits believe Jesus, Gandhi and Martin Luther King Jr. were extremists, a recent survey has revealed. The poll, carried out by ComRes for the Evangelical Alliance earlier this month, asked over 2000 British adults nationwide

The California Highway Patrol announced the arrest Wednesday of Yvonne Felarca, a.k.a. Yvette Felarca, a leader in the so-called “Antifa” (anti-fascist) movement, on charges related to a June 2016 riot in Sacramento.

A Luton Islamic School, which segregated staff by gender and hosted radical speakers, has been slammed by the Charity Commission and accused of misconduct.

TEL AVIV – It’s not enough for Muslims to declare that groups like the Islamic State do not represent Islam; it is time for the Arab world to take concrete steps towards fighting terror, the parliamentary affairs editor for a Jordanian daily said.

Facebook will start using artificial intelligence to find and remove “extremist” content from the platform, according to an official blog post.

There are reportedly “growing concerns” over the arrest of two Middle Eastern brothers in Minneapolis, Minnesota, this month. The men reportedly had what was described as an arsenal of bombing-making materials, replete with guns, ammunition, and bomb-making materials in their car.

BERLIN (AP) — Police in Berlin have raided six sites across the German capital and detained nine people, some with links to Islamic extremism.

Unlike Obama, who attempted to appease Islamic resentment of the West by admitting America’s faults, Trump’s speech in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia on Sunday emphasized terrorism and challenged the Arab and Muslim world to foster peace by “honestly confronting the problem of Islamic extremism, and the Islamists, and Islamic terror of all kinds.”

TEL AVIV – As Jordan becomes the target of an increasing number of Islamic State-affiliated terror attacks, the country’s press is calling on the government to do more to combat extremism, claiming that hundreds of thousands of Jordanians may support the terror group.

The Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) is developing a documentary series centered on “far-right extremism” and President Donald Trump.

BERLIN (AP) — A 50-year-old German far-right extremist suspected of carrying out a bloody bomb attack that injured 10 immigrants – six of them Jewish – in 2000 was arrested after bragging to fellow inmates about the crime, officials said Wednesday.

TEL AVIV – Fanaticism has accompanied Arab societies throughout Islamic history and is not a new phenomenon but today the media, the left and Islamic preachers are blaming its rise on wild conspiracy theories, a Qatari law professor said.

TEL AVIV – The world would have been better off without the Middle East and blaming Israel for rampant extremism, ignorance and infighting in Arab nations is futile and shallow, a Saudi columnist wrote in the country’s Al-Watan daily.

London’s Muslim mayor Sadiq Khan has continued his pro-Hillary Clinton tour of the United States by declaring that immigrants into the West should not be forced to assimilate. His comments come hot on the heels of the Chicago press exposing

NEW ORLEANS, Louisiana – A group aligned with the Black Lives Matter movement is threatening to physically tear down New Orleans, Louisiana’s most famous French Quarter monument depicting President Andrew Jackson on a horse.

TEL AVIV – Elements of the Egyptian press are slamming the country’s supreme religious authority, Al Azhar institutions, for continuing to cultivate extremism despite the authority’s claim that it welcomes President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi’s call for a religious revolution to combat extremist Islamist ideology.

TEL AVIV – London-based Saudi daily Al-Sharq Al-Awsat published a column last week calling for the Arab and Muslim world to follow post-WWII Germany’s lead and purge itself of extremist elements in much the same way Germany uprooted Nazism – “with an iron fist.”

Columnist and author Peter Hitchens has shared his views on ‘extremism’ in the Mail on Sunday: As an extremist, I am very worried about the planned Extremism Bill, which our Prime Minister is about to ram through Parliament. So should you

Londoners go to the polls on Thursday to choose a replacement for the outgoing Mayor, Boris Johnson MP. Despite the fact the Labour Party is currently mired in an anti-Semitism scandal, if all things remain equal, expect the party’s candidate Sadiq Khan

All of Scotland’s major Muslim groups declined to attend the launch of a campaign against violence and discrimination directed towards the Ahmadi sect, as well as the Paris and Brussels terror attacks. Representatives of the local Sikh and Jewish communities, and the

An Islamic school is under investigation after distributing sexist and anti-Semitic leaflets, which glorified jihad, blamed Western culture for “evils”, and claimed gender equality is “a vast conflagration of unspeakable immorality”. The Islamic Tarbiyah Academy in Dewsbury, Yorkshire is controlled

Presidential candidate Hillary Clinton joined Muslim Public Affairs Council president Salam Al-Marayti at a panel held by the University of Southern California on Thursday to discuss counterterrorism efforts and outreach to the Muslim community

Breitbart’s Senior West Coast Editor Rebecca Mansour, who is an American of Lebanese descent, talked about the threat posed to secular Western societies by Islamic extremism in an interview broadcast on Friday’s edition of Breitbart News Daily with host Stephen K. Bannon.

A prominent Danish mosque has told their congregation that apostates, adulterers and any one who harms a Muslim should be killed. The Mosque chairman defended the sermons, saying, “we believe in Islam”. The Grimhøj Mosque in Aarhus made headlines last month,

A YouGov survey finds most Americans are rejecting the label of “feminism” and say feminists are “too extreme.”

The newest member of the reformist, counter extremism Muslim pressure group ‘Quilliam’ has been forced to resign from his position at Palmers Green Mosque in London, after “physical threats” were made against him outside the building. A Quilliam source has confirmed

Every day in almost every way we are spun a new set of lies. This morning, a UK public body tried to convince me they didn’t take any money from the European Union. When I pointed out that they had

SAN BERNARDINO, California – When Breitbart News attended the Dar Al Uloom Islamiyah mosque – where terrorist Syed Farook once attended – leaders seemed unwilling to answer some basic, straight forward questions about what they teach at their masjid. Do they

An interesting bit of information from the ongoing investigation into the backgrounds of San Bernardino jihadis Syed Farook and Tashfeen Malik comes from Reuters, which was told by U.S. government sources that Malik “tried in vain to contact multiple Islamic militant groups in the months before she and Farook staged their attack, but her overtures were ignored” because the terrorists were concerned she might be a government informant.

“California Attack Has U.S. Rethinking Strategy on Homegrown Terror,” read the Saturday headline at the New York Times. Like everything else the Obama Administration does, it’s nothing but media spin.

Home Secretary Theresa May must allow the family of an Islamist extremist to have UK citizenship, the High Court has said. Mrs May had refused to grant citizenship to the extremist’s wife and adult children in order to deter others