Main Points 2

This source talks about the U.S.A. and how the people of this government should be more careful in attacking our ‘targets’ because many of the ‘targets’ we are attacking could just be civilians. If those civilians were to be attacked by the U.S.A. we would have more enemies than we had at the beginning. In order to actually effectively get our enemies, we have to be more careful in following ‘targets’. We should study them more and have more proof before we attack our targets. The U.S.A. can beat religious extremists like Al-Qaida but we have to do it carefully. http://indiafirsthand.com/2010/08/07/about-a-synagogue-in-mecca-mosque-in-new-york/

Thesis: In order for the citizens of the United States to have a safer community where all of us could live without fear from terrorist attacks, we have to come together, that means EVERYONE has to come together and help each other out with compassion and whatever needs need to be met. With this people that can be influenced easier than everyone else like the poor and children, we can put a road block in between terrorists and the good people around the world. By giving people the honor, respect and needs they need, there is no reason to go with terrorists.

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My topic is about Religious Extremism. Now looking at Religious Extremism, I wondered how one could counter it. Not only to counter it but to give people here a reason and to convince them that they could help during my presentation. Now one of the few solutions to Religious Extremism is having religious freedom. While religious freedom may not completely rid any country of extremists, it most definitely reduces the amount of people who go to religious extremes.  One of the articles I read completely agrees with this idea stating “The best, if not the only way to counter religious extremism, Gasimoglu maintains, is to open up society to religious freedom for all, democracy, and free discussion – even including Islamist groups. This is the only way, he argues, of depriving Islamic extremism of support by revealing the reality of what extremism in power would mean.” (http://www.forum18.org/Archive.php?article_id=338).

This source is recent from October of 2010 and states how America is trying to have better relations with the Muslim community in the Middle East but at the same time they are trying to target militants who are extremists in the Middle East. http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3918518,00.html

This source from 2006 explains that if you want to beat Extremists, you have to beat them at their own game. What they mean is that you have to appeal to the poor and children. Extremists target children and the poor and try to give them a sense of honor by stating their religion is the only way to have honor and to honor their ‘God’ they must become religious activists that go to extremes. The U.S. and all people’s around the world in order to coexist need to not build a tolerance to religious extremists, but to appeal to the poor, help them and give them a sense of honor. http://www.csmonitor.com/2006/0907/p09s02-coop.html.