One extremist pointed out the ease with which such robots can be acquired commercially.
On Tuesday afternoon, the White House defended the President's decision to speak to the extremists, pointing out that the Administration had also initiated dialogues with Iran and North Korea.
Its genial leaders deny being extremists, pointing to their love of education and computers; they say that in the planned university, women and non-Muslims will be enrolled too.
Yahya Birt, an academic researching Muslim political activism, and a member of the #EducationNotSurveillance network, says children are being "scooped up" and stigmatised as potential extremists, pointing to figures that suggest only 20% of those referred to Channel up to 2013 were assessed as needing its intervention.
Social media commentators mock Russia's claim that Ukraine is overrun by extremists, pointing to the small number of votes cast for far-right candidates.
Standing behind five kneeling hostages in orange jumpsuits, the unknown extremist repeatedly points a gun at the camera while claiming to be preparing an invasion of Isis fighters in Europe.
In arguing against an Arab link, officials and local experts on extremist groups pointed to the complex choreography of the attack.
At a time when Europe is filled with anti-immigrant rhetoric, political extremists have pointed to the demographic shifts in Prato as proof that Italy is under siege.
In testimony before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee in January, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said that there is "a new strategic alignment in the Middle East," separating "reformers" and "extremists"; she pointed to the Sunni states as centers of moderation, and said that Iran, Syria, and Hezbollah were "on the other side of that divide".
As San Bernardino mourned its victims, authorities Thursday detailed a massive cache of weapons, ammunition and explosives found in the shooters' home and contacts with suspected extremists that pointed to terrorism as a possible motive.
