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Galrim, another Pakistani refugee in Lesbos, explained to us Europe’s blunder: “The Islamist extremists have a plan.
“Politically active women, those who did not follow a strict dress code, and women human rights defenders were increasingly at risk of abuse, including by armed groups and religious extremists,” Amnesty International said in its 2007 report.
A German-style grand coalition has never been tested in Sweden; and Austria’s experience suggests that it could play into the extremists’ hands.
At one moment he is the “responsible” world leader who speaks charmingly to the international media about moderate Islam; at the next, he is the cunning conspirator who rigs elections, destroys political opponents, breaks promises on relinquishing power, enters into mutually beneficial relationships with mullahs, and castigates human-rights activists as “Westernized fringe elements” that “are as bad as the Islamic extremists.”
This is just a little of what 2010 perhaps has in store – and no mention yet of Israeli settlement building on the West Bank, Pakistan’s struggle against murderous extremists, and NATO’s bloody difficulties in propping up a discredited and corrupt Afghan regime in order to prevent the country from falling back into the hands of the Taliban and Al-Qaeda.
So the dividing line in Pakistan is not between liberals and extremists, but between those who support the status quo and those who oppose it.
Ultimately, the solution lies in patiently building an inclusive political framework that wins the support of local people and leaders who, despairing and fearful, have been lured to the extremists’ cause.
If protecting their government’s religious purity – and their own ill-gotten gains – required brutally repressing their own people and returning Iran to the dark ages, the extremists who would be left in charge would eagerly do it.
To be sure, if religious extremists take control of all levels of Iran’s government, appeals based on Iranians’ economic prospects will fall on deaf ears.
This would minimize the risk of severe violence in Iran, while galvanizing opposition to religious extremists.
But it would be dangerously mistaken to conclude that the mere presence of migrants in Europe fuels support for extremists.
The worst mistake would be to follow the opposite policy – an inevitably futile effort to appease the extremists or seek to moderate them.
When that day comes, it will be a real tragedy if what was begun by the extremists among us could not then be reversed by more reasonable minds.
In Africa and the Middle East, local strongmen and Islamist extremists are blocking progress toward peace or unleashing more strife.
Leaving the EU once seemed outlandish: no country had ever done it, and only extremists even proposed it.
The Afghan ISIS comprises mainly Pakistani and Uzbek extremists who “rebranded” themselves and seized territory along the Pakistan border.
As always, such a cessation would be at the mercy of extremists competing for power or bent on making peace impossible.
Worries over migration and the spectacle of a divided, dysfunctional Europe have benefited xenophobes and extremists across the continent.
And then he quickly backtracked, equating the Klansmen and “alt-right” extremists brandishing swastikas and chanting Nazi slogans with those who turned out to oppose them.
Are all the extremists searching for a new coherence, for a lost illusion of togetherness and a new hope of resurrection?
More menacing, extremists like the Islamic State have relied on social media for recruitment and propaganda purposes.
I have little sympathy for the extremists on either side of this issue: those who think that global warming is a hoax, and those who use fears of an impending Armageddon to push for heavy-handed government regulation of the economy.
The customs officers tasked with implementing those checks will inevitably become symbols of division, and potentially even a provocation to violence by republican extremists, as happened in the past.
Sunni Islamic extremists now target minority groups as well as other Muslim sects.
Ceding the immigration debate to extremists has abetted another extraordinary distortion: people generally believe that the number of immigrants in their countries is far higher than it actually is.
This implies that they should figure out how to manage immigration well, rather than outsourcing much of the process to smugglers and extremists.
More important, electoral politics aside, they would be helping to craft better societies whose politics are shaped by reasonable debate among citizens, not distorted by the community-destroying behavior of smugglers and extremists.
Why is it that schools, which should be recognized as safe havens, have become instruments of war, and schoolchildren have become pawns in extremists’ strategies?
Moreover, extremists like Boko Haram and Al-Shabab calculate that they can attack schools with impunity.
Pakistan’s government appears to be preparing to talk to some of the extremists in the tribal areas, introduce political reforms, and redouble development efforts.
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