If you go to
Google and type ‘extremist definition’ it offers a definition. It says “A
person who holds extreme or fanatical political or religious views, especially
one who resorts to or advocates extreme action”
In our society today we seem to be caught up with the notion that extremism comes solely from Islam and the Islamic faith. Extremism have existed for many thousands of years in many different forms and I suspect will continue for thousands of years to come. Islamic extremism is merely one section of an otherwise much larger problem.
There will always be people in our society that hold extreme political views and fanatical religious views; the very idea that the sixty two million people in the UK share the same opinions on anything goes against the very grain of our humanity and our individual intelligence. This difference of opinion is what makes us diverse, healthy and progressive in our nature, the real danger however comes from those who are willing to result to more than just words to further their own agenda.
There are a great number of neighbourhoods across the world that live under the constant threat that the public bin they walk past every day could just explode, or the car that they have parked next to is filled with explosives.
In the 1800’s we believed that the answer to stopping crime was to lock those responsible away and make the subject to hard labour, no great surprise that crime still exists within our society. In the 1920’s in America, the eighteenth amendment was changed to ban alcohol, unsurprisingly in the 1930’s alcohol was legalised again when that ban failed because people were creating their own at home or in visiting ‘speakeasy’s’.
These times in history are relevant to the extremist problem we face today. In the 1800’s hard work and jail didn’t reform the criminal mind; it simply punished the body for its actions. In the 1920’s the ban on alcohol pushed the trade underground. It still existed, it was harder to detect for the authorities but the vast majority of the public were aware of their presence.
In our modern society there are as many reasons as there are people as to why people choose to become extremists but we must also understand that there are instances where extremists are created not by their own choice and free will but by education and more appropriately brainwashing.
If we are ever to rid our society of extremists who are prepared to use deadly force to pursue their own agenda then a number of things need to change. We as a nation need to stop identifying people as terrorists because of a skin colour, because of their religion or because of their appearance alone.
This method of identifying possible terrorists from their appearance or beliefs only serves to build barriers in already fraying communities and where there were limited communication; such barriers could prohibit any form of communication completely. This breeds itself in to a cycle of fear between divided communities that cycle will destroy our communities as a whole and our national identity as well as irreparably damaging the lives of the individuals in the communities.
Pandering to terrorists is not the answer, however morally and ethically we owe it to ourselves, our neighbours, our communities and to the few who have fought to preserve the rights of the many to try and put in a place a programme that is designed to work with those who are at risk of being radicalised irrelevant of their religion or skin colour.
For those who have been radicalised but would like to seek help, it should be provided, but for those whose sole aim is the taking of life and the destruction of property, then we owe it to the public at large and the world to make sure these people are never allowed to set foot in public again.
Within current legislation a number of offences already exist around terrorism. Where a person is convicted by a court of being involved in terrorism, then that person should receive a minimum term in prison of no less than fifty years.
Extremists may have some legitimate concerns; however there are processes and channels that can be utilised to raise their concerns and terrorism is not one of those options.
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In our society today we seem to be caught up with the notion that extremism comes solely from Islam and the Islamic faith. Extremism have existed for many thousands of years in many different forms and I suspect will continue for thousands of years to come. Islamic extremism is merely one section of an otherwise much larger problem.
There will always be people in our society that hold extreme political views and fanatical religious views; the very idea that the sixty two million people in the UK share the same opinions on anything goes against the very grain of our humanity and our individual intelligence. This difference of opinion is what makes us diverse, healthy and progressive in our nature, the real danger however comes from those who are willing to result to more than just words to further their own agenda.
There are a great number of neighbourhoods across the world that live under the constant threat that the public bin they walk past every day could just explode, or the car that they have parked next to is filled with explosives.
In the 1800’s we believed that the answer to stopping crime was to lock those responsible away and make the subject to hard labour, no great surprise that crime still exists within our society. In the 1920’s in America, the eighteenth amendment was changed to ban alcohol, unsurprisingly in the 1930’s alcohol was legalised again when that ban failed because people were creating their own at home or in visiting ‘speakeasy’s’.
These times in history are relevant to the extremist problem we face today. In the 1800’s hard work and jail didn’t reform the criminal mind; it simply punished the body for its actions. In the 1920’s the ban on alcohol pushed the trade underground. It still existed, it was harder to detect for the authorities but the vast majority of the public were aware of their presence.
In our modern society there are as many reasons as there are people as to why people choose to become extremists but we must also understand that there are instances where extremists are created not by their own choice and free will but by education and more appropriately brainwashing.
If we are ever to rid our society of extremists who are prepared to use deadly force to pursue their own agenda then a number of things need to change. We as a nation need to stop identifying people as terrorists because of a skin colour, because of their religion or because of their appearance alone.
This method of identifying possible terrorists from their appearance or beliefs only serves to build barriers in already fraying communities and where there were limited communication; such barriers could prohibit any form of communication completely. This breeds itself in to a cycle of fear between divided communities that cycle will destroy our communities as a whole and our national identity as well as irreparably damaging the lives of the individuals in the communities.
Pandering to terrorists is not the answer, however morally and ethically we owe it to ourselves, our neighbours, our communities and to the few who have fought to preserve the rights of the many to try and put in a place a programme that is designed to work with those who are at risk of being radicalised irrelevant of their religion or skin colour.
For those who have been radicalised but would like to seek help, it should be provided, but for those whose sole aim is the taking of life and the destruction of property, then we owe it to the public at large and the world to make sure these people are never allowed to set foot in public again.
Within current legislation a number of offences already exist around terrorism. Where a person is convicted by a court of being involved in terrorism, then that person should receive a minimum term in prison of no less than fifty years.
Extremists may have some legitimate concerns; however there are processes and channels that can be utilised to raise their concerns and terrorism is not one of those options.
Twitter? Why not post me your questions : @ThePMCandidate
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