Tag Archives: Fundamentalism

The Many Faces of Extremism

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Extremism has always existed although it is since the 9/11 attacks that many people around the world began to fear it. As extremism is a complex phenomenon, scholars and policy makers have significant differences as…

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Being Charlie 6

Lots of politicians and civilians from many European countries and outside its bordering did not like the humour of the Charlie Hebdo magazine and found it too offensive. Most of the people would not actually have engaging in the sort … Continue reading

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Not true or True Catholicism and True Islam

The Inquisition was not Catholic The Inquisition with its censorship was in itself not Catholic, like ISIS is not in fact “true Islam.” When Pope Innocent III (1160 or 1161–1216) considered  the dualistic religious movement of the Cathars, descended from Gnosticism and … Continue reading

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Catherine Ashton on the EU annual report on human rights

In the previous months Catherine Ashton has said many times that she believes that human rights should be the silver thread that runs through all the statements and actions of the European Union. I also do believe the European Union … Continue reading

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Migrants to the West #7 Religions

Lots of people are looking for meaning in their life and several of them look into many religious teachings in the hope to find somewhere there a place where they could feel themselves comfortable. According to Leighton Knapp in his … Continue reading

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Migrants to the West #5

Limited freedom In Islamic countries is the trend going on of limiting people in their freedom; This has not so much to do with the religion of the followers of Muhammed. The example we can find about the female Turkish … Continue reading

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Migrants to the West #1

Challenging perceptions In the United States of America, Canada and in the European Union you may wonder if the current process of those countries becoming a multicultural society, more specifically when several Muslims challenge ‘white’ perceptions of those nations and … Continue reading

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The trigger of Aurora shooting

Early Violence and reason to talk In history we come up against many violent acts since Cain killed his own brother Abel out of jealousy. The mind not accepting the other having something or not having something made human people … Continue reading

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Christian fundamentalism as dangerous as Muslim fundamentalism

Anders Behring Breivik the man who killed76 people in two terror attacks did not bring the carnage of one fanatically driven man, because everything seemed neatly planned and he claims to have worked alongside “two more” terror cells. Friday’s atrocities … Continue reading

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