Contemporary Theoretical Implications of the Concept of Extremism

Abstract

Extremism and its offspring of terrorism impede the progress of people and nations, and its destructive ideas spread over souls and minds until they become a base for demolition that comes on the civilizations of people and nations and their innovations until they make them a dormant harvest as if they will never seek good or build for themselves. Extremism does not only threaten societal peace, public life, and relations among people; Rather, it threatens international peace and security, especially if it shifts from thought and theory to action and implementation, and this shift from thought to action has spread throughout history in many countries of the world, including the Iraqi state, and extremist organizations have used all the weapons of extremism that generate terrorism. In addition to adopting new intellectual techniques and methods aimed at shifting towards what has become internationally known as violent extremism, which has caused bloody conflicts with which political, ideological, and criminal agendas meet, and demonstrated its ability to exploit disrupted relationships within social groups in the state, worked to tear the social fabric among segments of society. This led to a decline in the state of peaceful coexistence, the state’s security system in all its dimensions. The accumulations caused by extremism and the controversies of division that extend and take root and are represented by internal mental wars that overthrow all coexistence and national policies based on moderation and rules of cultural competition, joint ideas, dialogue and national harmony. Thus, these concepts call for defining extremism and its related concepts, and clarifying the extremist character which will be the focus of this research