Students and relatives leave a graduation ceremony at Rutger’s University. Did they learn anything about the China threat? (Photo: Eduardo Munoz Alvarez/Getty Images) A new State Department report warns that the anti-American influence in higher education is undermining U.S. efforts to counter the China threat. The report, titled “The Elements of the China Challenge,” was drafted by The Policy Planning Staff under the Office of the Secretary of State and warns that the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) is triggering a “new era of great-power competition” in which the CCP not only aims to be at the ..read more

Recruiters from all extremist groups play on men’s insecurities. It is an attractive proposition to an insecure teenager — a proposition which gives him power, a weapon and identity. In the video below, former white nationalist Arno Michaelis, who now works to counteract this ideology, these explains how misunderstood masculinity is a huge driver of violent extremism. The post How Extremist Recruiters Target Young Men appeared first on Clarion Project ..read more

Members and supporters of the National Socialist Movement, one of the largest neo-Nazi groups in the US, hold a rally on April 21, 2018 in Newnan, Georgia. (Photo by Spencer Platt/Getty Images) Alabama State Representative Will Dismukes attended a celebration for Nathan Bedford Forrest, a leader in the Confederate Army and the first Grand Wizard of the Ku Klux Klan. Officials have called for the Republican lawmaker to step down from office, which Dismukes has refused to do. Alabama was the site of key events during the American civil rights movement, including the historic march from Selma to ..read more

A rally in Hong Kong on December 22, 2019 in support of the Uighur Muslim minority in China was eventually broken up by riot police (Photo: ANTHONY WALLACE/AFP via Getty Images) There have been rumors for years that China was oppressing its Muslim minorities, the Uighurs. Since 2017 there heard that the Uighurs had been moved into detention camps in China’s western Xinjiang Province and put through harsh “de-education” programs under the guise that they were potential terrorists. In fact, Clarion Project has been covering their plight since 2013. As information surfaced, we found out that the ..read more

A Minneapolis police officer with a body cam at the Twin Cities Pride Parade in 2018 (Photo: Tony Webster/Wikimedia Commons) In a veto-proof vote, the Minneapolis city council voted to defund and dismantle the city’s police department. Many have rightly pointed out that such a move would cause more suffering and death to the city’s black communities (as well as the entire population). When asked what would happen without a police department to call, say, during a house invasion, city council head Lisa Bender even went so far as to say that white residents should just realize that even being ab ..read more

A BLM protester attempts to stop a line of worshipers from entering the Grace Baptist Church in Troy, NY (Photo: Twitter) Black Lives Matter (BLM) activists have been attacking churchgoers at the Grace Baptist Church in Troy, New York since the end of June. Reports surfaced that the group was triggered by the church’s gun giveaway. Why is the mob beating church members in Troy, NY for trying to enter church and escort black members through the mob? “No justice, no peace” “Peaceful protest” pic.twitter.com/qsE1kUvqnR — Grace Baptist Church (@realgbctroyny) July 3, 2020 attendees to Grace Bap ..read more

Ilhan Omar speaks at a recent protest rally (Photo: Stephen Maturen/Getty Images) In the most recent brazen ideological attack on the country that took her in from a war zone, Congresswoman Ilhan Omar called for the “dismantling” of the U.S. economic and political system. Those who feared the Islamist threat to undermine the United States would come via “creeping sharia” can put that worry to rest. The threat is coming from a Marxist alliance, which includes the Far Left and its social justice rage mob paired with movements attaching itself to the George Floyd murder. Of course, this political ..read more

Antifa extremists protesting against a ‘Demand Free Speech’ rally in July 2019 in Washington, DC. Antifa objected to the free speech demonstrators who were rallying for social media companies to stop their censorship (Photo: Stephanie Keith/Getty Images) Clarion Project recently partnered with CELL (Counterterrorism Education Learning Lab) to bring you a much-needed conversation on designating Antifa as a domestic terrorist organization. Our special guest Andrew C. McCarthy, a former Assistant United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York., has been an integral and informed voic ..read more

The new politics of intersectionality saw an event hosted by a group called  Muslims For Abolition that merged faith with activism against slavery and racial injustice. There’s one problem with that: Islam allows for slavery. While Muslims for Abolition — a group backed by sharia-apologist Linda Sarsour– ignored this conflict of interest between faith and freedom, Muslim reformers addressed it head on last year. On the eve of September 11, 2019, Muslim reformers went to Ilhan Omar’s hometown of Minneapolis, Minnesota to ask the “appalling” questions about Islam the congresswoman refuses ..read more

A Protester attempts to pull down the statue of Andrew Jackson in Lafayette Square near the White House June 22, 2020 in Washington, DC. (Photo: by Tasos Katopodis/Getty Images) Nation-wide protests weeks after George Floyd’s murder turned into a movement to destroy a nation. Parading as an attack on racial injustice, the movement has turned into an obliteration of history. This week that devastation set its eyes on faith. Less than one week ago, protesters rekindled the call for removing confederate statues. Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, in a show of solidarity with the protest mob, remo ..read more