To what extent is it possible to distinguish extremism form mainstream religion?

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  1. we live in a society that has come to fear
  2. the electrical line between mainstream religion and religious terrorism.
  3. This anxiety is now most notable because
  4. of the incessant reporting and religiously motivated acts
  5. of terror and with the increasingly loud
  6. voice of a few French religious ideologues.
  7. Surely an issue as prevalent as this must
  8. be sufficiently defined and easy to distinguish.
  9. But the exact opposite is the case.
  10. One cannot replace a precise line in the sand where
  11. mainstream religious ideology meets what can be called extremism.
  12. So where does this obviously present distinction
  13. between religion and would terrorism occur?
  14. And how does it change over type? And does it differ across religions,
  15. the two most popular and discussing matters of
  16. extremism on minute sex or Christianity and Islam?
  17. By comparing and contrasting the relatively
  18. liberal mainstream of the liberal fridge,
  19. this distinguished can be better understood.
  20. Defined,
  21. mhm,
  22. mhm
  23. mm
  24. mhm.
  25. Islam is a major world religion,
  26. flashed by Mohammed in Arabia in the early seventh century.
  27. The Arabic word Islam means surrender specifically surrender
  28. to the will of the one board Allah.
  29. In Arabic, Islam is a monotheistic religion,
  30. and Muslims regard the Prophet Mohammed as
  31. the last and most perfect God's messengers.
  32. The same in Scripture of Islam is the poor,
  33. on which contains God's revelation to Mohammed.
  34. The fundamental concept of Islam is the Sharia law,
  35. which embraces the total way of life
  36. commanded by God.
  37. The religious obligations of all Muslims are summed
  38. up with the five pillars of Islam.
  39. One shot harder,
  40. the fundamental statement of faith and commitment made by Muslims.
  41. There is no God but Allah, and Muhammad is his messenger
  42. to
  43. the ritual. Prayer is done through it all. Muslims perform to the will of God.
  44. Prayer is performed in the direction of Mecca five times a day.
  45. Friday set side of the day for congregational prayer in a mosque.
  46. 30 hat your obligatory donation of a portion of the Muslims serve as well.
  47. Four. Song Muslim self expected to fast during Ramadan.
  48. During daylight hours, they abstain from food and drink,
  49. sexual activity and smoking, breaking the fast with a meal after sunset.
  50. There are exemptions to participation. Alcohol and pork are always forbidden.
  51. Five.
  52. Heart pilgrimage to Mecca, the holiest city,
  53. is a duty that every Muslim should perform at least once during their lifetime,
  54. whilst in Mecca,
  55. they can lead a series of individuals like the actions upon the
  56. various days of their visit following a pattern set by Mohammed.
  57. Despite promising to form an inclusive government,
  58. the Taliban has monopolised power in their hands.
  59. Since assuming power in Kabul,
  60. the Taliban have prevented many women from returning to work,
  61. especially in the media.
  62. They have practically excluded women from higher education by
  63. banning coeducation and have imposed harsh restrictions on news,
  64. music and entertainment.
  65. However,
  66. there are many other extremist groups in Afghanistan which
  67. also tried to disrupt the mainstream peaceful practises.
  68. I S K and the Taliban are mortal enemies.
  69. The two groups have fiercely competed over resources,
  70. recruits and territory in eastern and northern Afghanistan.
  71. In the first four months of 2021
  72. below, I SK carried out 77 attacks in Afghanistan,
  73. representing a significant uptick from 2020.
  74. The group's deadliest attack today was the August 26 suicide
  75. blast amid the US evacuation operation at Kabul airport,
  76. which kills 13 U.
  77. S troops and at least 170 African citizens.
  78. The Taliban, however,
  79. remained the most prominent extremist group in
  80. Afghanistan and have stopped her any uprisings.
  81. Rules on women have been enforced in a very strict man.
  82. Here are some of the ban and women riding bicycles or motorcycles.
  83. Even with my heart, women are forbidden to write in a taxi without
  84. it.
  85. Segregated bus services introduced to prevent males
  86. and females travelling on the same bus.
  87. Women can't have high ranking positions.
  88. Mhm
  89. uh,
  90. all right.
  91. Mm.
  92. Catholics in Western Europe and the United States can
  93. really lead to being more progressive and liberal.
  94. However,
  95. the Catholic Church also has lagged behind
  96. you the progression of values in society.
  97. While 61% of the Catholics in the United States support gay marriage,
  98. the Vatican oppose it,
  99. and homosexuality is often used as a disorder in the Catholic Church.
  100. The Catholic Church also missed lack of like when it comes to gender equality.
  101. The Vatican view sets them as a social sense,
  102. but the Catholic Church prevents woman from becoming priests.
  103. A common justification of this is that Jesus chose only men as his apostles.
  104. However, this attitude can seem severely out of date,
  105. and it contributes to the preservation of an unequal society.
  106. As for racism, the Catholic Church has had a history of it,
  107. particularly anti Semitism.
  108. But the church has more recently been trying to end this,
  109. publishing a 10,000 words open into 2000 and 15 or 100 Jews against anti Semitism.
  110. Evangelicals in the United States very intend to be in
  111. conservative as they are concerned with taking the Bible literally,
  112. and they are often opposed to Christian feminists reinterpretation of the Bible.
  113. Some evangelical churches have been accused of
  114. creating a culture that encourages domestic violence,
  115. and they also believe that the right balance of power in their marriages,
  116. where the husband is on top evangelical
  117. Christians are also less likely to believe the
  118. structural racism and are more likely to see
  119. Confederate sightings as symbols of southern pride.
  120. Evangelical Christianity has been associated with slavery in
  121. the past and terrorist organisations like the KKK,
  122. some evangelical,
  123. see as many of his descendants from Japan and are thus subject to the cursed town,
  124. which justifies their racism.
  125. Topeka, Kansas,
  126. the home of the Westboro Baptist Church and American Hate Group.
  127. The church itself is known for being homophobic and charismatic and hateful.
  128. Towards most people,
  129. the church defines itself as hyper calvinistic,
  130. an ideology that believes that God chooses some to be saved,
  131. and those lucky few cannot resist his call.
  132. But God chooses, not seek most. And these unfortunate souls were buying how forever
  133. the church has been going to act like the 9 11 attacks,
  134. elementary school shootings and the Holocaust,
  135. describing the events as retribution since
  136. although the charge of calls itself Baptist,
  137. it is unaffiliated with any mainstream Baptist or other Christian groups
  138. frequently asked questions of the WBC website expense.
  139. Your best hope that you are is that you are amongst those who
  140. has chosen your prayer every day should be that you might be.
  141. And if you are not, nothing you get through or say will serve as a substitute.
  142. WBC began picketing the funerals of American
  143. soldiers killed in Iraq and Afghanistan and
  144. the funerals of members of the LGBT plus community who have been murdered.
  145. The group maintained that God is punishing
  146. America for tolerating homosexuality and persecuting WBC.
  147. Yeah,
  148. ultimately,
  149. what one can conclude from this project is that people can distinguish morally,
  150. it'll be mainstream and extremism
  151. sellers.
  152. Extremism often uses violence and manipulate religion
  153. in order to suit their needs,
  154. whereas mainstream religion is much more peaceful and open to waves.
  155. Strange beliefs to sue the culture that they are practised it.
  156. For example,
  157. the Taliban use Islam and their faith in order
  158. to justify their strict rules and fired actions.
  159. Mainstream Islam, however, will liberalise to be more accepting of other faiths,
  160. sexual orientations and racist.
  161. So to decide what is extremist or not to make the facts should be studied.
  162. Does the sex change to become accepting and doesn't use religion
  163. to it prepared itself into positions of power from the past.
  164. Experience to unprecedented.
  165. It does not look like the extremist side of
  166. religions will never really go away or massively changed.
  167. But modern society has shunned it to the point where he pushed out the majority.
  168. Okay.
  169. Mm.