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Editorial Violent Muslim Extremism Flagrantly Dares the World: A Critical Reflection This editorial reflects on an aspect of the root causes of the current refugee and migrant influx into Europe: Can the Muslim world’s extremist elements, who brazenly continue to dare the international community, be decisively de feated so that peace and tranquility can be restored to the Middle East and the world at large?
Defeating violent Muslim extremism will be difficult, and therefore mandates the recognition of certain facts: Its very nature is complicated; these non-state extremists(e.
The foreign and domestic policies of western and Middle Eastern nations are important motivators, for they attract those who believe that the West’s policies are destructive and humiliating to Muslims in general.
4 For quite a while, western and Middle Eastern leaders have had neither a genuine unity of purpose nor the willpower to discourage extremism.
I argue that if long-term and realistic minor and radical foreign and domestic policy changes are really instituted and implemented, along with other crucial steps suggested below, violent extremism can be defeated by depriving extremists of a potent recruiting tool.
”8 However, the majority of those who joined al-Qaeda in Afghanistan and elsewhere from the 1980s onward, as well as those Europeans and Middle Easterners who join ISIS now, are poor, lowly, and disenchanted Muslim youth – some are even hard-core criminals, not to speak of the majority of those who join al-Shabab and Boko Haram.
2. When an American Muslim engages in violent attacks, he is quickly and easily described as a terrorist.
But when an American non-Muslim terrorizes and kills people, he is anything else but a terrorist.