Reflection #NineEleven20
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Extremism...is the biggest problem facing the world.
Extremism has its stereotypical and its professionally sanitized version. It has the likes of #AlQaeda and #AlShabab on one hand and the Neocons and Right Wing Extremists on the other.
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Extremism...is the biggest problem facing the world.
Extremism has its stereotypical and its professionally sanitized version. It has the likes of #AlQaeda and #AlShabab on one hand and the Neocons and Right Wing Extremists on the other.
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It has the militant religious fanatics as well as material and power-driven secular humanists and in between who consider violence as the first or the only option to problem-solving.
It has the militant religious fanatics as well as material and power-driven secular humanists and in between who consider violence as the first or the only option to problem-solving.
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While the stereotypical one's intention, anger, hate, and tools of war are often explicit and are belligerently overt in their claim to culpability, the professionally sanitized ones' are more clever, covert, and stealthy in their operations.
While the stereotypical one's intention, anger, hate, and tools of war are often explicit and are belligerently overt in their claim to culpability, the professionally sanitized ones' are more clever, covert, and stealthy in their operations.
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Both groups compete to manipulate the psyche of the masses; though the latter one, through its mastery of the art of public relations, double-speak, and propaganda, almost always turn the tables on the former.
Both groups compete to manipulate the psyche of the masses; though the latter one, through its mastery of the art of public relations, double-speak, and propaganda, almost always turn the tables on the former.
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And both groups are ruthlessly oblivious to the fact that, unlike a situational one, sustainable societal transformation cannot be forced; it can only be inspired with good intention, vision, and deeds.
islamicity.org/4951/eleven-le…
And both groups are ruthlessly oblivious to the fact that, unlike a situational one, sustainable societal transformation cannot be forced; it can only be inspired with good intention, vision, and deeds.
islamicity.org/4951/eleven-le…
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