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Extremism and its Causes...
October 29, 2005 - 03:24 AM
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By BABAR R. CHAUDHRY
Founder ‘Arrahman-Arraheem.com'
Extremism has many facets but most commonly, it is linked with terrorism or violence. I shall illustrate this point through an example. If a person becomes angry over a petty matter he is moving towards extremism and is no longer moderate. Similarly, a greedy and jealous person is also at an extreme. To be at the extreme of anything makes one “An Extremist”. You can make a person an extremist within minutes - just say something that annoys him or something that is not according to his liking and he becomes angry and reacts at an extreme. Conversely, Quran teaches the traits of Sabar (determination, patience and perseverance), Qanaat (to be happy and content with whatever one has), Darguzar and Ehsaan (to forgive and to forget).
By adopting these traits in his character, a person gradually becomes balanced and moderate and avoids becoming an extremist. These traits are extremely essential attributes to possess in these modern and frantic times.
Here I would also like to point out the causes of Extremism. I want to highlight an important issue, especially for the people of North America and Europe who must know why this is happening. Extremism occurs within people when their psyche is unbalanced; when there is no one to guide them; when they lose control over their emotions, intelligence and weaknesses. Whatever they think, they consider it to be right without any proof or confirmation; and they do not follow any commandments of Allah in their lives.
Another reason for Extremism is ‘lack of knowledge' . To explain this further I will give you my example. When I used to live in the United States and people asked me about the Quran and what Allah says in it, I could not answer their questions because I had no knowledge. I had no references to quote from the Quran and Ahadith, yet I used to think that I am right and others are wrong. When people asked me , ‘Do you believe in the Bible?' My reply was an emphatic ‘No!'. The next question then used to be ‘Have you ever read the Bible?' My answer again was ‘No'. Then I was asked ‘Have you ever read the Geeta?' Again, my reply was in the negative. I was finally asked, ‘You have not read the Bible nor the Geeta nor the Quran with understanding, then how come you are so sure that you are right and others are wrong?' This was the million-dollar question, which always stumped me , as I never had its answer.
So , I was one of those people who used to think that I was right without having any knowledge or references of the Quran and Ahadith! To me this is one type of extremism, where one thinks he or she is right and the others are wrong without any proof or evidence! Without making any comparison or having an intellectual discussion! Without knowing that what my Deen–e-Islam offers to the world is better than what others have! I considered myself as a most educated and intellectual person but I had no idea on how to market my Deen !
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Re: Extremism and its Causes...
January 3, 2006 - 11:00 AM
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There is a book "The world is flat" by Thomas Friedman, a famous columnist of NYT.
Among other things, there is a section which explains mentality of terrorists and extremists, pp 391-406(if i m not mistaken) on Al Qaeda, whom Friedman so aptly calls Islamo-Leninists.. Read on, its worth it!
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Re: Extremism and its Causes...
January 11, 2006 - 01:45 AM
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hello smsana,
indeed, you are right, i ommited going into details of what I think about this issue.
Please read my views on about extremism in the below mentioned link. I believe I talked about it elsewhere either, but dont remember where i posted.
http://www.takingitglobal.org/connections/discuss/showthread.html?threadid=12825
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Educate Good...
January 11, 2006 - 11:08 AM
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I've just read your reply, yes it might be intresting, whenever i get my hand i sure read that book.
But by getting idea by ur reply u didn't reply ur views ?
Brother World most easyiest thing is finding mistak in someone else, who ever do that think he's right, and no human is perfect, when we do something bad we find people like us, when we want to do something good, there are people you can be with.
Everybody is pointing out others mistakes or wrong doing ? the question is what have i done except for talking, doing discuessions, have i done any thing in ground reality, which i can show other practically ?
If i cant do anything, i should sinceare with myself by atleast stop doing what i know is wrong.
Peace be upon you...
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Extremism has many facets but...
January 14, 2006 - 08:00 AM
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Your view shows your mind approch its very positive and your mind is open.
The Following is one the paragraph taken from Barab R Chaudy founder of alrehman-alrahim.com
Extremism and its Causes
Extremism has many facets but most commonly, it is linked with terrorism or violence. I shall illustrate this point through an example. If a person becomes angry over a petty matter he is moving towards extremism and is no longer moderate. Similarly, a greedy and jealous person is also at an extreme. To be at the extreme of anything makes one “An Extremist”. You can make a person an extremist within minutes - just say something that annoys him or something that is not according to his liking and he becomes angry and reacts at an extreme. Conversely, Quran teaches the traits of Sabar (determination, patience and perseverance), Qanaat (to be happy and content with whatever one has), Darguzar and Ehsaan (to forgive and to forget).
By adopting these traits in his character, a person gradually becomes balanced and moderate and avoids becoming an extremist. These traits are extremely essential attributes to possess in these modern and frantic times.
Here I would also like to point out the causes of Extremism. I want to highlight an important issue, especially for the people of North America and Europe who must know why this is happening. Extremism occurs within people when their psyche is unbalanced; when there is no one to guide them; when they lose control over their emotions, intelligence and weaknesses. Whatever they think, they consider it to be right without any proof or confirmation; and they do not follow any commandments of Allah in their lives.
Another reason for Extremism is ‘lack of knowledge' . To explain this further I will give you my example. When I used to live in the United States and people asked me about the Quran and what Allah says in it, I could not answer their questions because I had no knowledge. I had no references to quote from the Quran and Ahadith, yet I used to think that I am right and others are wrong. When people asked me , ‘Do you believe in the Bible?' My reply was an emphatic ‘No!'. The next question then used to be ‘Have you ever read the Bible?' My answer again was ‘No'. Then I was asked ‘Have you ever read the Geeta?' Again, my reply was in the negative. I was finally asked, ‘You have not read the Bible nor the Geeta nor the Quran with understanding, then how come you are so sure that you are right and others are wrong?' This was the million-dollar question, which always stumped me , as I never had its answer.
So , I was one of those people who used to think that I was right without having any knowledge or references of the Quran and Ahadith! To me this is one type of extremism, where one thinks he or she is right and the others are wrong without any proof or evidence! Without making any comparison or having an intellectual discussion! Without knowing that what my Deen–e-Islam offers to the world is better than what others have! I considered myself as a most educated and intellectual person but I had no idea on how to market my Deen !
Enlightened Moderation
There is no doubt that the Quran is the Book of Allah and that our Deen-e-Islam is complete and that the Holy Prophet Muhammad (PBUH) has left for us a Uswa-e-Hassana (a beautiful pattern of conduct). However, there is major weakness on our part, which is lack of knowledge and our inability to answer even the most basic and logical questions about our Deen with reference from the Quran and Ahadith .
Another cause for extremism is injustice . This happens when people feel threatened; they lose their property, their family and loved ones, their lives, their land etc. These situations act as a catalyst and the person feels justified to react in an extremist way and take revenge and behave in whatever manner he likes, which in turn earns him the label of extremist. So here we are talking about one of the biggest issues in the world which need to be addressed and brought to justice in order to eliminate extremism.
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Re: Extremism and its Causes...
January 15, 2006 - 11:32 AM
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yes i agree with most, but..
what i said goes hand-in-hand with what you said, only you went further down to the emotional unconscious level of humans and tried to basically define the major human "feelings" which give rise to extremism.
extremism by its definition is "a tendency or disposition to go to extremes or an instance of going to extremes, esp. in political matters." so whenever there are predispositives to take a human behaviour out of its "confort zone" where the instability, insecurity, lack of resources, information,etc prevails that's when extremism comes to life!
as you also correctly put extremism has many reasons. but believe me extremism activities on a large scale are not caused by poor people for insecurity or for revenge but as i told in the article on manipulation of human emotions and nostalgie of past glory, having in mind al-Qaeda and similar organizations. Of course i m not saying isolate cases of extremism given your reasons are not happening, on contrary i totally agree with you for small groups and individual cases.
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Hello Brother...
January 16, 2006 - 10:28 AM
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Its not that you agree with most its just what you read is just one paragraph or whole articale of Mr.Babar R Chaudry.
No one understand the picture by seeing only the trailer, you should read or see the whole picture what its really saying, The Article in the website(alrehman-alrahim.com) or in my profile its by name Enlightend Moderation.
Here its restricted line of words you can type here.
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Re: Extremism and its Causes...
January 17, 2006 - 08:25 AM
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thanks a lot smsana!
I will certainly read it!
Peace!
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