Extremism

One of the most contentious debates of modern times is whether religious beliefs should be included as a basis of evaluating and implementing public policy. While modernization and secularization are seen as signs of progress and development, adherence to religion or involving religious beliefs is seen as backward, primitive, outdated and irrelevant to the workings of the political system by many. This is based on the idea of linear development and that total secularism and abandonment of…

change their determination to achieve their rights, value, and respect in the society. More importantly, through all the limitation imposed by the Constitution on them such as dress code, gender discriminations, social considerations and religious extremism, Iranian woman continued to peruse their work in different sectors and participate in international forums. Hence a number of Iranian women have succeeded in dealing with all restrictions, which count as a distinctive feature from the rest…

The cultural Marxist ideology in the United States today originates from Europe, not from Obama. Understanding cultural Marxism goes a long way to understanding the American decline, the slide into a police state and the bizarre belief that Obama is a Messiah. The author gives a detailed description of cultural Marxism in, cultural Marxism – social chaos and those behind it in, the modern social liberal. Specifically for Americans and from decades ago, the warnings were always there, explained…

The Civil War was mainly based on the different ideological beliefs of slavery between the North and the South. Almost all sectional conflicts such as the Nullification Crisis and Kansas-Nebraska Act revolved around slavery issues, which can be traced back to the earliest years of American colonization. With a Southern agrarian economy in contrast to a Northern industrial economy, the South felt threatened and felt that slavery was the only stable force that kept its economy grounded.…

It's a simple answer a small group of people who are using the peaceful religion of Islam as a platform for their violent crimes, which creates fear in countries like America where there are five to eight million Muslims residing. This strategy of fear that they use seems to be working since United States candidates for president are using that as their platform for the presidency. These politicians use the media as their platform to sell their ideas of how to stop terrorism, which causes fear…

faith as “an indulgence of irrationality that is nourishing extremism, division and terror”; moreover, he likens it to a malignant virus infecting the human mind, just as Freud suggested the Christian belief upset the development of a sound mental state. Dawkins stated faith is dangerous because “it gives people unshakeable confidence in their own righteousness”; his main pieces of evidence for this were religiously motivated extremism and ‘hell houses’ run by Christian organisations. The Hell…

Terrorism is an extremely prevalent problem in the world today. Every month there is news of a bombing in some city, or a shooting in some neighborhood, and Western media has made Islam the face of terrorism. While Jihadists only make up a fraction of the proponents of terrorism, the media has caused “terrorism” to be synonymous with “Muslim.” Even understandable acts of rebellion, like the liberation movement of Palestine against Israel, are seen as Islamic radicalism because misguided…

The main topic of the source presented is how strong religious beliefs can strike a sense of nation within a people; subsequently creating a nation state. This idea is evident within the source through the quotation stating “... We will wish the Jews a most hearty welcome home.” This quotation demonstrates how strong religious nationalistic beliefs in addition to great perseverance can lead a people to gaining own nation state to call home. The speaker's perspective is that of the Arabic during…

would continue to go by. The urgency of the moment calls for extreme action; however, we see that the word extreme is not used to describe violent action, but instead non-violent demonstrations. In this case moderation maintained the bad life and extremism was what was needed to fight for the good life. We see that different times call for different tactics in order to achieve the good life. Span One also had to adjust their actions to fight for the good life in their circumstances. Although…

ISIS first started when the US government first killed Saddam Hussein in an air strike. The US destroyed the government in Iraq, but also destroyed Infrastructure. So basically it was US fault that ISIS was formed. There were lots of people who lived under the rule of Saddam Hussein so they may not have been so happy when their ruler died. Also the people in Iraq were living normal lives and when Saddam Hussein was ruling. Since the US destroyed Iraq, it was easy for ISIS to take over. ISIS…