HOW TO ERADICATE EXTREMISM FROM OUR SOCIETY

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HOW TO ERADICATE EXTREMISM FROM OUR SOCIETY
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INTRODUCTION
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• Thinking about profound social change,
  conservatives always expect disaster, while
  revolutionaries confidentially except utopia.
  Both are wrong

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EXTREMIST???
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WHAT IS EXTREMISM
Suicide Bombing
Religious Intolerance
Sectarian Violence
Blast in Khyber Bazaar, More than 200 people
killed
Liberal Fascism
President declared emergency on 3rd Nov.
Drone Attack in Miran Shah, 13 civilian dead, 15
injured
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OrP.T at 630 in the Morning
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DEFINITION

• The Oxford Advanced Learners Dictionary
  describes extremism as ideas or actions that
  are extreme and not normal, reasonable or
  acceptable to most people.
• Webster dictionary defines extremism as advocacy
  of extreme measures or views

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DEFINITION (cont.)

• For our purposes to better explore extremism we
  can turn to Robert F. Kennedy, he said that
• What is objectionable, what is dangerous about
  extremists is not that they are extreme, but that
  they are intolerant. The evil is not what they
  say about their cause, but what they say about
  their opponents.

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EXTREMISM VS TERRORISM

• Extremism is closely associated with terrorism.
• Normally extremism and terrorism are considered
  exchangeable words.
• In reality they are not.
• Terrorism is a physical act, whereas extremism is
  a state of mind.

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Types Of Extremism

• Religious Extremism
• - Recurring historical phenomenon
• - Intolerance towards other beliefs
• - It is not a religion, it is not Islam
• Political Extremism

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History Of Extremism In Our Society
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• Inclusion of Religion into Politics.
• Islamization of Educational Institutes.
• Rise Of Extremist Culture during 80s.

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CAUSES OF EXTREMISM IN OUR SOCIETY
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• Doesnt originate haphazardly.
• Have causes and motivation like living organism,
  it
• doesnt come out of the blue and cannot
  germinate
• without seeds.
• Knowledge of causes is essential for diagnosis.
• Causes are interrelated
• Direct causes
• Indirect causes
• Psychological, Sociological, Economical

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ILLETRACY,POVERTY UNEMPLOYMENT

• Class difference
• Lack of opportunities for poor class
• 71 of population below poverty line

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POLITICAL FACTOR

• Constitution-less country for 9 years
• Military interventions
• Beaurocratic intrigues

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ROLE OF EDUCATION

• Types of education in our country
• Madrassahs inculcating voilent lessons
• No social and scientific education

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FOREIGN INFLUENCE

• Interest of great powers in region
• Fall of USSR and rise of Taliban
• WAR FOR OIL rather than WAR ON TERROR

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SECTARIANISM

• Role of religious parties in stirring the rift
  among the people to meet their vested interest

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EFFECTS OF EXTREMISM
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POLITICAL EFFECTS

• Political instability
• Loss of leadership
• Weak administration/writ of government with
  parallel govts in certain areas
• Bad image of our country abroad

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ECONOMIC EFFECTS

• Dec. in trade
• Dec. in foreign investment
• Flight of capital
• Tourism badly effected

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SOCIAL/PSYCHOLOGICAL EFFECTS

• Lack of trust among people
• Uncertainty about future
• Feelings of fear

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• So build up your muscles to curb this menace

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MEASURES TO STOP EXTREMISM

• The vast majority of Muslims ,who are horrified
  by the atrocity of September 11,must reclaim
  their faith from those who have so violently
  hijacked it.
• KAREN ARMSTRONG

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Extremism is a Hydra headed evil that comes to
fore in various forms. A multipronged approach
should be employed to counter it.

• one that is smart about cultures, customs and
  traditions. The present policy of focusing on
  troop strength and drones, and trying to win over
  people by improving their lives with western
  style aid programmes only continues a long
  history of foreign involvement and failure.
• Scott Altran

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EDUCATIONAL REFORMS

• .Registration of madrassahs
• Bringing Madrassah education into streamline.
• Comprehensive audit of Madrassah funding.
• Recruitment of scholars holding moderate views of
  Islam.
• Intelligence agencies participation with
  education providers and student councils in
  different educational institutions to identify
  individuals at risk of becoming extremists.

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Elimination Of Poverty

• Imparting vocational skills training to people
  belonging to lower strata of society
• Creating employment opportunities through public
  private partnership, cooperatives like (Kissan
  project) and micro credit programmes
• Outsourcing Pakistani talent as it is being done
  in countries like India,Phillipines,Cuba,Sri
  Lanka and Bangladesh

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Good Governance

• Increased participation of masses
• Transparency and accountability
• Community welfare oriented programmes.
• Elimination of red tapism,nepotism,elitism and
  corruption.
• Effective and efficient
• Responsive
• Rule of Law
• Equitable and inclusive

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Control Of Media

• Curbing the glorification of terrorists by media
• Stopping internet extremism by working with
  internet service providers and software
  publishers to reduce access to extremist material
  on internet
• Distribution of books containing views of
  moderate Islam.
• Preaching of middle way by well educated Islamic
  Scholars on TV and Radio.

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Revival Of Democratic Traditions

• Every decision regarding national security should
  be taken in parliament in collaboration with
  National Security Council.
• Provincial autonomy should be given
• Pluralist traditions should be revived

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Rehabilitation Of Terrorists

• Rehabilitation of terrorists as it is being done
  in Saudi Arabia,Indonesia,Egypt,Morrocco,Yemen
  Singapore
• Social integration of rehabilitated terrorists
• A follow up programmed to supervise their
  activities

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Reformulating American Foreign Policy

• American policy in Palestine and Iraq is recipe
  for extremism
• Nasser Judeh
• USA must change its policy of backing Israels
  atrocities in Palestine. It should also close all
  illegal detention centers.

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Conclusion
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• The question is not whether we will be
  extremist, but what kind of extremists we will
  beThe nation and the world are in dire need of
  CREATIVE EXTREMISTS.
• Martin Luther King Jr.
• "Extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice
  moderation in the pursuit of justice is no
  virtue"
• Barry Goldwater

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