BlackGrowth

First of all, happy New Year everyone.     Unfortunately, we closed our 2017 fearing terror attacks. It has not been the first year this happens.     Then let us ask ourselves: are Muslim extremists a threat?     The honest answer is yes .     After the 9/11/2001, in theory the War on Terror was an attempt to answer some of the actions they inspired and carried out.      However, the War lead to even more instability in the Middle East and in the world at large.     Something did not work out. How? Why?     Was - and is - the West really serious and dedicated to fight and counter Muslim extremists? Muslim integralists' communities in Western cities First, let's consider what happens in our own cities. There are many communities inspired to fundamentalist teachings of the Quran all through Western countries. These communities are tolerated to varying degrees. They are Muslim enclaves in W...

Nowadays, the radicalization of some people's mindsetting (and their actions orientation towards extremism) is something quite important to discuss and to understand. The most notorious aspect of this is the growing phenomenon of Islam extremism since it still leads to terrorism on a world scale.     However, it would an error to limit considerations just to Muslim extremists. In fact, the ways used to indoctrinate people are not new and they have less to do with religion and more with psychology. Manipulate people into believing your truth Indeed, any extremism is based on manipulating faithful people: and before that, on manipulating people to lead them to have faith. Then, how does it come that faith, starting innocent, can be perverted into something so much more sinister? How does it become the foundation on which people are brought to the extremist side of things like politic and religion (and not just Islam's)? 1 So you are alone with them, with...