The victims of extremism ate many and widespread; orphans, widows and many more who have lost loved ones as a result of their beliefs and actions. The IRA of Britain has claimed many a lives in their quest for independence from British rule in a bid to proclaim themselves a legitimate governing body to administer their own people. The Islamic fundamentalists who are now center stage in world politics for their bold and daring attacks on people killing themselves and others of their own faith considering them as collateral damage and as acceptable casualties. They have repeatedly attacked governments in Algeria, Iraq, and elsewhere in the world just to prove their point. The influence they have on their people is so great that they have convinced them to take their own lives for the sake of belief and the promise that their sacrifice is for the common good.
Since time immemorial, there are people who have fought to maintain their sovereignty from conquering parties may they be people or governments that they have twisted and turned the definitions of their religion into one that is solely directed to killing and many other atrocities. A quick glance at news headlines from around the world would give you an idea of how great the problem is and that there may be no easy solution to such incidents. Many have demands that are considered unacceptable, or simply impossible that they go on a never ending cycle of killing and maiming innocent people. One of the most recognized extremist Adolf Hitler, used the political might of German society as a way of expressing his view of a world ruled and owned by the Aryan Race. This has resulted in the death’s of millions of people not only Jews as they waged their war against other not belonging to their race that it sparked the second world war.
Many such groups and political arms have and are still in the ranks of society that they are considered threats to not only to national security by many countries, but to world wide security as well. Fear of a new Nuclear Holocaust looms in the air as many of the world’s nuclear arsenal go missing as Soviet Russia fell and many of it’s former member cities declaring their sovereignty from the main Socialist republic founded by Joseph Stain. The threat of a so-called , or contaminating bombs that do not aim to result in a huge nuclear blast but to rather spread nuclear material causing massive deaths due complications of exposure to radiation from the material dispersed by the said device. This has been on the priority of governments around the world that was heightened by the attacks on America of the infamous 9/11 when many died as a result of extremist activities.
Originally posted on December 10, 2007 @ 10:22 am