Islamist Extremism |  | First Response (Full Episode) | 9/11: One Day in America - Youtube screenshot | 9/11 21st Anniversary - The War Isn’t Over Watching even a few minutes of this powerful documentary will take you right back to those gut-wrenching hours on September 11, 2001 that changed our world. Watch Here In the wake of the attacks, former President Bush announced that America had just experienced another Pearl Harbor and declared war on terrorism. - Clarion Project was born out of the realization that we were indeed at war and that more needed to be done to expose the real enemy - radical Islam.
Since then Clarion Project expanded its mission to exposing all the radical ideologies from all sides of the political spectrum that preach hatred and violence and cultivate violent extremists who threaten our safety. Clarion Project also created the Clarion Intelligence Network to identify the extremists who pose a real threat to our safety and help law enforcement authorities do their work to keep our streets safe. - Unfortunately, the war is not over and our work is more important than ever. On this special anniversary, please consider supporting our work. Donate Now
US Prosecutors May Negotiate Plea Deals With 9/11 Conspirators U.S. military prosecutors are reportedly negotiating potential plea deals with 9/11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and four other conspirators imprisoned in Guantanamo Bay. The other four defendants are Ramzi Binalshibh, Mustafa Ahmed al-Hawsawi, Walid bin Attash and Ammar al-Baluchi. The al-Qaeda terrorists have been charged with terrorism, hijacking aircraft, conspiracy, murder in violation of the law of war, attacking civilians and more. Read More Couple Pleads Guilty to Attempting to Support ISIS Arwa Muthana, 30, of Hoover, Ala., and her husband James Bradley, aka Abdullah, 21, of the Bronx, pled guilty to attempting to provide material support to ISIS. Bradley and Muthana attempted to travel to the Middle East to Join ISIS. While speaking to undercover law enforcement, Bradley expressed his desire to conduct a terrorist attack in the U.S. and discussed potentially attacking the U.S. Military Academy in West Point, N.Y. Read More Jihadi Gets 93 Years Added to Life Sentence Ali Muhammad Brown, 37, was sentenced in the Superior Court of Washington for King County to 93 years in prison for three counts of premeditated first-degree murder. Brown committed the murders in 2014, in self-proclaimed jihad against U.S. policy in the Middle East Brown was already serving a life sentence for killing a man in New Jersey. Read More Court Dismisses CAIR Suit A U.S. District Court judge has dismissed a lawsuit filed by the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) of Arizona on behalf of student Mohamed Sabra against Maricopa County Community College. The lawsuit alleged that lessons and a multiple-choice quiz from a world politics class in 2020 violated Sabra’s religious rights. CAIR has been identified by the Justice Department as an “entity” of the U.S. Muslim Brotherhood. Read More | | | | | Alt-Right & Alt-Left Extremism |  | Chris Reyes, right-wing group leader, handcuffed and suffering from mace - News Share via Twitter screenshot | Antifa Brawls With Right-Wing Protestors at California Pride Parade Antifa activists and a right-wing group exchanged punches outside a Riverside, Calif. LGBT Pride Parade. A local activist, Chris Reyes, who was bloodied and maced during the fight, led the right-wing group. Local police later arrested Reyes when it ended. Watch Here More News From the Alt-Right - Two members of the Proud Boys, Nicholas Ochs and Nicholas DeCarlo, pled guilty to obstructing the certification of the electoral college vote at the U.S. Capitol on January 6, 2021. Read More
More News From the Alt-Left - BLM activist Darrell Brooks Jr., 40, who is accused of killing six people and injuring dozens of others by driving through a Christmas parade in Wisconsin last year, withdrew his insanity plea. Read More
| | | | | Hate Crime |  | Spencer Platt/Getty Images | Rudy Coslopez, 41, of Queens, N.Y. was arrested and charged with assault as a hate crime after he harassed and head-butted an Asian man in an unprovoked attack. Read More - An assault on a Latino man, who suffered two jaw fractures and a head injury, near the campus of Yale University in New Haven, Ct. is being investigated as a hate crime. Read More
| | | | | Hostile Foreign Influence Operations |  | Jakub Porzycki/NurPhoto via Getty Images | Microsoft Warns of Attacks by Iranian Hackers - Microsoft’s threat intelligence division assessed that a subgroup of the Iranian threat actor Phosphorus is conducting ransomware attacks. The attacks are being described as “moonlighting for personal or company-specific revenue generation.” Read More
North Korean Hackers Target Energy Companies - A new malware campaign by the North Korean hacker group Lazarus has been discovered targeting energy suppliers around the world, including companies in the U.S., Canada and Japan. Read More
| | | | | Research & Trends in Extremism |  | Screenshot from Tech Transparency Project report | New Report Shows Boogaloo Boi Militia Growing on Facebook - A new report published by the Tech Transparency Project shows a surge in pages and groups on Facebook affiliated with the Boogaloo Boi Militia Movement.
- The Boogaloo Boi movement is a violent and decentralized group with an ideology rooted in the desire to provoke a second U.S. civil war, as a way to destroy what they believe is a tyrannical U.S. government.
- The movement appeared on an internal Facebook list of "dangerous individuals and organizations," yet the report notes that Boogaloo pages, groups and accounts have been able to flourish on Facebook despite the company's assurances it is doing all it can to keep extremists from using the platform. Read More
Facebook Reacts to the Above Findings - Following reporting of the findings by the Tech Transparency Project, Facebook shut down multiple groups affiliated with Boogaloo Boi Militia Movement.
- The Facebook groups that were shut down included groups such as “Bigaloo Bogaloo,” which was recently highlighted in the news and by the report. Overall, the groups boasted a combined membership of over 20,000.
- Prior to their shutdown, the Clarion Intelligence Network infiltrated these groups and was able to identify and report over 150 potential violent extremists to our law enforcement partners.
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