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Moreover, although Muslim religious and secular leaders are able to isolate millenarian terrorists and undercut their popular support, they lack the moral capital to completely discredit nationalist extremists groups like Hamas and Islamic Jihad, as long as the Muslim laity shares some of their goals.
As long as no distinction is made between nationalist extremists and fanatical terrorists like Al Qaeda, the latter will be able to masquerade as the defenders of Muslims who are seen as “driven” to resort to suicide bombing because of military weakness.
LONDON – The international community’s attention in the Middle East nowadays is inevitably focused on the Islamic State’s military advances in Syria and Iraq, the failed states of Yemen and Libya, the activities of Islamic extremists everywhere, and the continuing efforts to complete a deal to contain Iran’s nuclear ambitions.
In a country where left-wing extremists gunned down the last labor-market reformers a decade ago, the joke carries ominous undertones.
Until now, US policy has boiled down to pinprick bombings against Sunni extremists and an effort to train some 5,000 Syrian “moderate oppositionists,” who presumably would defeat the other Sunnis, vanquish President Bashar al-Assad’s forces, and finally march victoriously into Damascus – perhaps with a flyover by US aircrafts.
In the 1980s, under President Ronald Reagan, the US (with funding from Saudi Arabia) trained thousands of Islamic extremists to fight against the Soviet Union in Afghanistan.
Would-be democrats, freedom fighters, jihadists, Sunni extremists, and Al Qaeda elements – all supported by Sunni Arab countries and groups, now man one side of the battle lines.
But Sunni extremists have launched some 50 suicide attacks in the last month, killing 500 mostly Shia civilians.
Spahn seems to be making a similar point about political correctness, by implying that if Germany’s main parties do not defend traditional Germanness, then right-wing extremists will.
Third, with the regional Sunni-Shia conflict intensifying, the prospect of tens of billions of petrodollars backing terrorist extremists has already destabilized the region.
Fourth, America’s decision to back extremists in Syria contradicts its “war on terrorism” and will erode international support for it.
The prospect of Iranian cooperation to root out Al Qaeda extremists, which it provided in Afghanistan and Iraq, would be unlikely following any intervention.
Others fear extremists masquerading as genuine refugees.
Instead, Bhutto had to pay with her life for courageously challenging extremists of all stripes – from Al-Qaeda and Taliban to the country’s religious political parties and military hardliners.
One can understand why religious extremists like Al-Qaeda and Taliban would target her, and the government claims that it is impossible to defend against a suicide attack.
So, in the eyes of Pakistan’s people, and especially of Bhutto’s supporters, the intelligence services, either alone or in collaboration with extremists, finally decided to eliminate her.
The first expresses openness to dialogue, while the second dismisses intersex advocates as extremists.
But in the eyes of Islamic extremists, Russia is part of the “Satanic” West – indeed, its most vulnerable part.
Only 43% of Europeans bothered to vote – and many of them deserted establishment parties, often for anti-EU extremists.
Though German Chancellor Angela Merkel calls the surge in support for extremists “regrettable,” her administration – and EU institutions more generally – is substantially responsible for it.
The High Court of India’s most populous state, Uttar Pradesh, finally decided a 61-year-old suit over possession of a disputed site in the temple city of Ayodhya, where, in 1992, a howling mob of Hindu extremists tore down the Babri Masjid mosque.
Indeed, these extremists can hardly claim to espouse Hinduism, which stands out not only as an eclectic embodiment of tolerance, but also as the only major religion that does not claim to be the sole true one.
Beyond the short term, it would unleash major unintended consequences, potentially including an Iraq-style “soft” partition of Syria and the creation of a haven for extremists stretching across much of Islamist-controlled northern Syria and into the Sunni areas of Iraq.
Meanwhile, approximately 3,000 Israeli extremists have bought houses in East Jerusalem, where they are protected by security forces and have their children transported to school in armored vehicles – part of services provided to the settlers that cost the Israeli government more than 100 million shekels ($25 million) in 2014.
The breakdown of talks would benefit extremists on both sides and push moderate Kurds into the arms of the militant Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) and a renewed Kurdish insurgency.
Clinton’s Administration has done much more, however, than defend the economy against ideological extremists.
Furthermore, the abrupt removal of Assad could deal a fatal blow to the Syrian state – an outcome that is in no one’s interest (with the exception of ISIS and other extremists).
A troubling proportion of the opposition forces are Islamic extremists, and there is no guarantee that weapons deliveries will stay out of their hands.
Western leaders put on a brave face, believing that moderate crooks were better than motley extremists.
The risk in Russia is that calm economic growth will not come before a demagogic alliance of red and brown extremists stalls the advance of Russia's infant market democracy.
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