Countering Islamic Extremism

The gospel of Muslim extremism has found a global market through the Internet.

In Arab countries, they only helped to inflame Islamic extremism.

Putin himself once blamed the West for trying to channel Muslim radicalism toward Russia.

Islamist extremism is a handy revolutionary creed for vulnerable young people to latch onto, to gain a sense of power and belonging.

We must fight Islamic extremism, but not by tapping into the darkest gut feelings of the unthinking mob.

The appeal of Islamist extremism may have been its glorification of violence more than any religious content.

Today, poorly thought out reforms in North Africa and the Middle East are being rushed through under the perceived threat of Islamist extremism.

Those who view Islamic extremism as the problem also tend to hold up young killers like Merah as examples of failed integration.

However vague, the alliance of civilizations idea certainly cannot do more harm than war against Islamic extremism.

True, America s intervention in the Middle East also strengthened extremist Islam, breeding on the resentment that the US presence arouses.

The easiest strategy for liberals is to side with conservative Muslims who reject not only radical Islamism, but also political reform.

Will Pakistan be dragged along the path of Islamic extremism and emergency rule, or finally achieve modernity as a secular nation under civilian leadership?

The party denies the argument that democracy will foster Islamic extremism and claims that it is the delay of reform that presents a major source of danger.

This leads to an unavoidable dilemma Bush will have to choose between supporting democracy and backing those who want to fight Islamic radicalism.

In the event that the coalition of NATO forces in Afghanistan is defeated, a wave of Islamic extremism will submerge the Central Asian states, inciting local civil wars.

The Consequences of Korean Extremism

And I was actually a potent force in spreading ideas across borders, and I witnessed the rise of Islamist extremism as distinct from Islam the faith, and the way in which it influenced my co religionists across the world.

Given that Islamic fundamentalism breeds in economic despair, Libya s rulers seem to want to take particular care that this process does not create an underclass of victims who might fall prey to the call of religious fanatics.

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The 9 11 terrorists second blunder was to believe that their terrorist attacks would inspire irresistible surge in anti Western Islamist extremism.

Unlike European leaders such as Joschka Fischer, Germany's Foreign Minister, the US excludes the Israeli Arab conflict from the initiative, and wants to concentrate solely on the social and economic problems that feed extremism and terrorism in the Islamic world.

India s democracy and burgeoning economy make it a major factor in the Asian balance of power, and the recent terrorist attacks in Mumbai underscore a shared struggle against violent Islamic extremism.

What if that could be a vaccine against religious intolerance?

This would be different from applying sanctions, which would risk triggering a Masada Complex that might push Israel to further extremes.

Those who view Islamic extremism as the problem also tend to hold up young killers like Merah as examples of failed integration. They never became sufficiently French.

A bulwark of secular government and anti fundamentalism in a North Africa that is struggling to contain the spread of Islamic extremism, Libya is of strategic importance to Europe and the US beyond its oil riches, notwithstanding the overwhelming significance of its energy resources.

It can also promote extremism, even terrorism.

As a Korean, I am always puzzled by Korean extremism. Where in the world can you find a more isolated, regimented and militarized dynastic mutation of a communist totalitarian system than in North Korea?

Disseminating a culture of tolerance and dealing with the root causes of extremism

Another reason that has been offered for not referring to Islamic radicalism or the Islamic State is that to do so concedes the terrorists' claims that they are acting in accordance with Islam's teachings. That might draw others, who regard themselves as pious Muslims, to join them.

We should do everything in our power to avoid radicalization, to interrupt radicalization processes early, and to guide radicalized individuals back into our society and to acceptance of our values.

Agreement is uncertain. Unlike European leaders such as Joschka Fischer, Germany's Foreign Minister, the US excludes the Israeli Arab conflict from the initiative, and wants to concentrate solely on the social and economic problems that feed extremism and terrorism in the Islamic world.

But it also faces acute social and public health problems and has 1.3 billion Chinese on its eastern border, and it has important common interests with Europe, including trade in gas and oil and a shared preoccupation with Islamic extremism.

There is nothing radical in calling for slower population growth.

Jihadi extremism cannot be defeated unless the mainstream wins.

The Iraq conflict, by contrast, is part of the world s first global insurgency the web of individual conflicts spawned by Islamist extremism, most of them related in some way to al Qaeda, and the global war on terrorism.

It is the ideology, not just the acts of extremism, that must be confronted.

Until there is a Palestinian state and an Iraq free of US occupation, Islamic extremists will win recruits.

It is now clear that both sacred extremism and desecration are feeding each another.

What will this extremism give birth to in the future? And who, among the world's innocent, will it target?

We know that such empowerment of women helps stave off extremist thought and action.

We must act against those that incite and promote extremism.