You can’t make this up, can you? A former al-Qaeda recruiter, Jesse Morton, served time for recruiting for a terrorist organization. George Washington University hired him as a homeland security expert, which stirred controversy. But,…
Topic: Program on Extremism
Study: ISIS Radicalization is Online and Tried to Hijack #BlackLivesMatter
George Washington University’s Program on Extremism published a recent study entitled, “From Retweets to Raqqa,” to highlight the growing social media presence and radicalization efforts of the Islamic State (known by some as IS, ISIS,…
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The Rise of ISIS in America
The George Washington University Program on Extremism recently published a study on Islam-based extremism by sympathizers of the Islamic State (also known as ISIS, Daesh, or as the Obama administration says, ISIL). The study’s executive…