Islamist Extremism |  | NYPD Commissioner Keechant Sewell holds an Irish flag during the annual St. Patrick's Day parade on March 17 - Selcuk Acar/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images | Jihadi Terrorist Threatens St. Patrick’s Day Parade Ridon Kola, 32, of Yonkers, N.Y., was arrested over a plot to kill Yonkers police officers and threatening to kill a mayor on the street at a local St. Patrick’s Day parade. Kola posted his support for ISIS online, as well as his intention to murder numerous police officers. Kola is charged with making threatening interstate communications, which carries a maximum sentence of five years in prison if convicted. Read More University Hosting Event Supporting Hamas-Linked Org The University of Minnesota (UMN) chapter of the Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) is hosting an event to support members of the Holy Land 5. The Holy Land 5 were leaders of a Texas based Islamic charity known as The Holy Land Foundation for Relief and Development. The Holy Land Foundation was established in the 1980s as Occupied Land Foundation. At one point, it was the largest Muslim charity in the U.S. In 2001, it was shut down by the U.S. Treasury Department, and its leaders were tried and convicted of funneling millions of dollars to the Hamas terrorist organization. Read More Other NGOs in the U.S. that support Islamist terrorist organizations are still alive and active. See Clarion Project's special report on this network of terror-supporting NGOs operating in the U.S. | | | | | Alt-Right & Alt-Left Extremism |  | Larry Edward Foxworth - Clayton County Sheriffs Office via Fox 5 Atlanta screenshot | Georgia White Supremacist Sentenced for Racially Motivated Shooting Larry Edward Foxworth, 48, of Jonesboro, Ga., was sentenced to 240 months in prison for shooting into two convenience stores attempting to kill those inside because he believed they were Black or Arab. Foxworth expressed hope that he had killed his targets and professed belief in white supremacist ideology. Read More Florida Man Charged With Racially Motivated Attack - David Emanuel, 61, of Gainesville, Fla., has been charged with committing hate crimes for his racially motivated attack on a group of Black men who were surveying land along a public road in Cedar Key, Fla. Read More
Two Antifa Activists Arrested for Vandalism at UC Davis Protest - Two people were arrested protesting a Turning Point USA event at the UC Davis campus.
The two are accused of vandalism for spray-painting graffiti. The protesters also broke glass panels in doors in an unsuccessful attempt to break into the event. - One police officer was hurt during the event when he was jumped on from behind and pushed to the ground. Read More
Pro-Life Pregnancy Center Vandalized Again After Firebombing in June - The Amherst Police Department is investigating an incident of graffiti vandalism at CompassCare, a Buffalo-area pro-life clinic.
- This is the second incident that has occurred at CompassCare, which was firebombed in June 2022. Read More
| | | | | School Threats |  | Kenneth Cole Candelario, after being arrested for shooting into an occupied vehicle in Dec. 2022 - Calhoun County Jail via 6WBRC screenshot
| 19 Year Old Charged With Making Terrorist Threat Toward School Kenneth Cole, 19, Candelario of Piedmont, Ala., was charged with making a terroristic threat at Piedmont High School on social media. Candelario posted a video on Snapchat making threats toward police, showing that he had a gun in the school's parking lot. Candelario was charged last year with shooting into an occupied vehicle. Read More Two Arrested for Threats to California High School Two adults have been arrested after a social media threat against Bell Gardens High School in Bell Gardens, Calif. During their investigation and surveillance of the suspect, detectives saw two adults get into a vehicle. They conducted a traffic stop and searched the vehicle, locating two stolen firearms, body armor, high-capacity magazines and ammunition. Both suspects, whose names were not released, were taken into custody without incident. Read More | | |  | Hostile Foreign Influence Operations |  | Members of an all-girl Afghan robotics team assemble components for a circuit board at the laboratory of Qatar's Texas A&M University, Sept. 2021. - KARIM JAAFAR/AFP via Getty Images | Court Orders Qatar to Release Documents About University Funding The District Court of Texas for Travis County ruled in favor of the organization Judicial Watch, which filed a petition on behalf of its client the Zachor Legal Institute, requesting information about the funding or donations made to Texas A&M by the government of Qatar and agencies and subdivisions of the government of Qatar. Zachor initially pursued information related to the funding of the Texas A&M campus in Qatar in 2018, seeking to determine how Texas A&M was able to establish a degree-conferring campus in Qatar without the Texas Legislature’s permission or involvement. In 2018, Qatar filed a lawsuit to prevent disclosure of its funding information. Read More China, Russia, Iran Hold Joint Naval Drills - Naval forces from China, Iran and Russia are staging joint drills in the Gulf of Oman.
- A Chinese Defense Ministry statement said, "This exercise will help deepen practical cooperation between the participating countries’ navies."
- U.S. National Security Council spokesperson John Kirby said the White House was not concerned by the joint training exercise. Read More
| |  | Research and Trends in Extremism |  | Brazilian security forces supervise the dismantling of far-right ex-president Jair Bolsonaro supporters' camp in Jan., after a mob committed “acts of terrorism” in chaotic scenes that triggered global shock - TERCIO TEIXEIRA/AFP via Getty Images | GTI Data Reveal Terror Attacks More Deadly, Africa is Biggest Target The tenth annual edition of the Global Terrorism Index (GTI) by the Institute for Economics & Peace reveals terror attacks are more deadly, with 26 percent more people dying in each incident. Deaths from attacks by unknown jihadists globally are eight times higher than 2017, representing 32 percent of all terrorism deaths. In the West, the number of attacks continues to fall, with successive falls each year since 2017, with intensified attacks in other regions. Terrorism thrives in countries with poor ecologies and climate-induced shocks. The Sahel is the most impacted region, representing forty-three percent of global terrorism deaths. Read More | | | | | QUOTABLE “Democracy and socialism have nothing in common but one word, equality. But notice the difference: while democracy seeks equality in liberty, socialism seeks equality in restraint and servitude.”
- Alexis de Tocqueville
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