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Extremists are filling young minds with the belief that anyone who disagrees is an enemy – and not just their enemy, but God’s enemy.
And the extremists are good at jumping on the back of political grievances.
The extremists justify killing in the name of God.
It is up to all of us to show people that we have a better idea than the extremists have – to learn from each other and live with each other.
Both Qatar and Saudi Arabia generously supplied weapons and funds to Sunni extremists in Syria, opening the door for the emergence of the Islamic State.
With the economy already desperately weak, the resumption of sanctions could empower the extremists.
Syria is particularly vulnerable in this regard, as extremists incite violence against minority religious groups by using, for example, television stations in Saudi Arabia and Egypt.
In particular, the US, which has significant influence in Saudi Arabia, must act to stop attacks by that country's extremists on Syria's religious minorities - attacks motivated merely by a desire to provoke sectarian conflict.
But when democracy takes root, as in tolerant and secular Indonesia, the clash between moderates and extremists can be better managed.
Indeed, in the early years of the democratic transition that followed, most post-communist voters did not succumb to the temptation to elect extremists who promised to end the hard times they were enduring.
But the episode left the Saudi leadership far more inclined to compromise with, and even directly assist, Islamist radicals and extremists.
Though the government is seen as sympathetic to liberal intellectuals, it is also anxious to maintain law and order and avoid provoking the extremists.
Her government must not succumb to the temptation to accommodate the extremists in the name of good governance (or in the cause of political survival).
A wave of fatwas from the Islamic world might even embolden less radical factions within al-Shabaab to defect or take action against the small circle of extremists at the top of the group.
Never mind that a global, decentralized network of extremists will hardly be deterred by high-intensity detonations over remote badlands.
Never mind that Saddam Hussein had nothing to do with 9/11, and that toppling a secular Arab dictator would do nothing to stop religiously minded non-state extremists.
A chaotic post-Assad transition in which chemical weapons end up in the hands of Islamist extremists – or, worse, a radical Salafist takeover of the country – would threaten both countries, giving them a powerful incentive to strengthen their cooperate.
We cannot win unless the number of people the extremists recruit is lower than the number we kill and deter.
The extremists wanted to silence the majority that was waking up to the existential threat that radical Islam poses to their country.
Had Malala died, she eventually would have been forgotten – another victim of the war that the extremists are waging in Pakistan.
The extremists understand that all too well.
It can also be seen in the United Kingdom, where a more radical Labour Party under Jeremy Corbyn’s leadership faces a Conservative Party held hostage by pro-Brexit extremists.
I listened to a Sunni engineer whose association with an American construction company makes him a target for extremists, and to a translator of the Christian Mandaean minority who narrowly escaped death when the United Nations headquarters in Baghdad was bombed in August 2003.
These groups are fed up with how radicals have smeared Islam in Indonesia, and they are beginning to work together to challenge the extremists head on.
The greater challenge is the ongoing struggle within the worldwide Islamic community, the Ummah, between moderate, progressive Muslims on the one hand and fundamentalist extremists on the other.
Finally, Ahmadinejad is likely to be bolder in subverting stability in Iraq, and his victory will encourage radical Iranian officials and extremists within Iraq itself.
Perhaps Bush did not personally recognize this, but Vice President Dick Cheney and a group of extremists concentrated in and around the Pentagon did.
And they must win people’s allegiance by the power of their values and their ideals – not only by isolating terrorists and extremists, but also by helping, in meaningful ways, poor countries to prosper.
One night in December 2015, a local group of Islamist extremists petrol-bombed Shabbir’s neighbor’s home and waited outside for the fleeing family.
Shabbir’s neighbors were Christian, and the extremists were keen to evict them and convert their home into a madrasa (religious school).
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