Extremism
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It is everyone’s task to counter
extremism
actively and speak out about radical statements, in public and in private.
A study by the RAND Corporation also advocates the promotion of Sufism, whose gentler and more inclusive version of Islam makes its adherents ideal “partners in the effort to combat Islamist extremism.”
That said, Mexico’s political institutions have survived hard times, the middle class rejects extremism, and the US is close by.
They regarded Western democracies as weak – unwilling or unable to respond to their evil
extremism.
Above all, the West’s effective crackdown on domestic
extremism
has tended to drive would-be terrorists – now often based in remote parts of the world, where they hope to operate with impunity – to higher levels of technical sophistication.
The 9/11 terrorists’ second blunder was to believe that their terrorist attacks would inspire irresistible surge in anti-Western Islamist
extremism.
Yet, since 9/11, most victims of Islamist-inspired terrorist
extremism
– often in the vile form of suicide attacks – have been Muslims, in Iraq, Pakistan, and elsewhere.
True, much of this
extremism
is based on a perversion of Islam; but such perversions of faith are also often directed against Muslims.
One is seen not just in acts of religious extremism, but also in the desire of religious people to wear their faith as a badge of identity in opposition to those who are different.
Yet many open-minded people remain curiously passive in the face of religious
extremism.
Most notably, Russia’s perceived ambition of recapturing its Soviet-era influence is challenging the rules-based order that was established after World War II, and a surge in religious and political
extremism
is threatening democratic and liberal values.
Despite all the grim news and auguries, there is some hope, owing to the increased political mobilization of Pakistan’s middle classes, whose members have finally begun to question those espousing
extremism.
Unlike Iraq and Afghanistan, democracy is not new to this 60-year-old state, but ethnic cleavages, weak institutions, and religious
extremism
in the North are perennially destabilizing.
This window of opportunity can be expanded through dialogue and reconciliation with those who are ready to disavow
extremism
and militancy.
If we are sincere in our desire to slow the exodus to Europe, to prevent the radicalization of children, and to prepare for Syria’s reconstruction, we must see education, not emigration (much less extremism), as a child’s passport to the future.
Malaysia's Chinese citizens now view Premier Mahathir as a bastion against a new form of violent extremism: the threat posed by Muslim fundamentalism.
Such a bulwark is something members of the vast Chinese diaspora across Southeast Asia need, not only in Malaysia, where Islamic
extremism
remains a small threat, but in Indonesia, where thousands of Chinese have been killed and injured in rioting in recent years, and where thousands more have seen their property damaged or lost.
The Premier used this opportunity to soften his anti-Western image by re-affirming his modernist and secular position against those who sympathized with Islamic
extremism.
The unresolved Arab-Israeli problem leads to the rise of radicalism and
extremism.
This approach would enable a fair and lasting resolution of the Palestinian issue, which profoundly offends people’s sense of justice and causes instability and extremism, while eliminating tensions arising from the threat perceptions of Iran and other countries in the region.
But we will need more than that to convince nearly 200 million young Muslims that
extremism
is, quite literally, a dead end.
There are many examples of under-the-radar operations working to counter
extremism
across the Indian subcontinent and the Middle East: children’s magazines in Pakistan, videos aimed at teenagers in North Africa, radio stations in the Middle East, and books and publications opposing Al Qaeda.
The best long-term tool for countering extremism, however, is education.
Indeed, the issue of security dominated both the parliamentary and presidential elections, with all sides claiming to be the best qualified to counter
extremism.
It must cope with entrenched territorial and maritime disputes, such as in the South China Sea; harmful historical legacies that weigh down its most important interstate relationships; increasingly fervent nationalism; growing religious extremism; and sharpening competition over water and energy.
But menacing noises from China, together with the Hong Kong government’s failure to attempt a sensible dialogue with its critics about governance concerns or economic challenges, has driven many democracy activists to
extremism.
That is why it is so important for the people of Hong Kong to ensure that their vision is not clouded by extremism, and to stand up to protect the virtues that comprise their unique identity.
Its is only a question of time, and of how deeply living standards fall in the interim and how much politics deteriorates toward extremism, just as in the 1920s.
Fear of “Talibanization” of the Caucasus prompted the Kremlin’s recent announcement that Russian Muslims should be protected from extremist propaganda from abroad, and that Russian Muslim education and spiritual life should be controlled in order to direct them away from
extremism.
It was fear of extremism, as well as a more general increase violence, that led to the rise of the Kadyrov clan in 2004, when the Kremlin decided to engage in a “Chechenization” of the conflict.
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