Extremism

Extremism means, literally, "the quality or state of being extreme" or "the advocacy of extreme measures or views". The term is primarily used in a political or religious sense, to refer to an ideology that is considered to be far outside the mainstream attitudes of society. It can also be used in an economic context. ...more

Bring the War Home: The White Power Movement and Paramilitary America
Them: Adventures with Extremists
The Kingdom, the Power, and the Glory: American Evangelicals in an Age of Extremism
The Undertow: Scenes from a Slow Civil War
Antisocial: Online Extremists, Techno-Utopians, and the Hijacking of the American Conversation
Culture Warlords: My Journey Into the Dark Web of White Supremacy
Unfollow: A Journey from Hatred to Hope
Educated
Jesus and John Wayne: How White Evangelicals Corrupted a Faith and Fractured a Nation
Men Who Hate Women: The Extremism Nobody is Talking About
Breaking Hate: Confronting the New Culture of Extremism
Homegrown: Timothy McVeigh and the Rise of Right-Wing Extremism
Cultish: The Language of Fanaticism
The Power Worshippers: Inside the Dangerous Rise of Religious Nationalism
Going Dark: The Secret Social Lives of Extremists
Amos Oz
A prominent israeli writer, Sami Michael, once told of a long car journey with a driver. At some point, the driver explained to Michael how important, indeed how urgent, it is for us Jews “to kill all the Arabs.” Sami Michael listened politely, and instead of reacting with horror, denunciation, or disgust, he asked the driver an innocent question: “And who, in your opinion, should kill all the Arabs?” “Us! The Jews! We have to! It’s either us or them! Can’t you see what they’re doing to us?” ...more
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Mouloud Benzadi
Throughout our common HISTORY, the belief that there is only one way to Heaven has only led us to division, war and MISERY.
Mouloud Benzadi

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