Apr 2, 2021
Jesse Morton was once a jihadist propagandist (then known as
Younes Abdullah Muhammad) who ran Revolution Muslim, a New York
City-based organization active in the 2000s and connected to a
number of terrorism cases. He connected al-Qaeda’s ideology and
transformed it for America, creating English language propaganda
and collaborating with the most notorious jihadist preachers of
that era.
Morton deradicalized in 2011 and has worked since then to become a
leading commentator, researcher and interventionist on jihadist,
far-right and far-left extremism and reciprocal
radicalization.
In 2017, Morton launched Parallel Networks, an organization he
co-founded with Mitch Silber, the former NYPD official that
monitored and ultimately incarcerated him. The initiative works to
prevent and counter violent extremism and has been supported by the
Counter Extremism Project.
Over past years, Jesse has served as a deradicalization
interventionist in an array of capacities and has worked to pull
over 100 individuals from an array of movements and ideologies out
of extremism.
Morton was included in Foreign Policy Magazine’s 2017 ‘Global
Thinkers’ listing, holds certificate licensure in substance-abuse
and mental health counseling, is widely read in Islamic theology
and has been published and lectured nationally and abroad.