TERRORISM of Pharaoh, King Herod and Hoarders of Nuke Weapons WMD

Up to today, mankind has not invented yet
an "extremism gauge."
Indeed, extremism cannot be quantified but can only be described in its various manifestations.

Extremism has two sides to it..
It can either be good or bad.
There is nothing bad with extremism
when it comes to ibadah like sadaqah
or piety generally speaking.
One can even be badly fanatical about a Hollywood
actor or a pop singer.

However, what is alarming with extremism is when it becomes violently lethal. Violent extremism is deadly when it kills, attacks or destroys people or a single group-without any just cause.

Extremism goes a long way in history. It comes in many forms: political, religious, economic, social, physical etc

Let us trace extremism as far as Egypt when Pharaoh ordered the summary killing of male babies so that our Prophet Moses AS won't exist. It was extremism. That was terrorism. Likewise, when King Herod ordered the killing of male babies so that our Prophet Jesus AS won't exist. That was terrorism. That was extremism.
Tragically, nowadays people start to draw the line into two non-terrorists and Muslim terrorists. This is alarming.

Terms are created so things will become real even if they don't exist. We must redefine terms and how these operate to sow terror and paranoid attacks in the hearts and minds of people across the globe. There is no such things as Islamists or jihadists. But there is Muslim, Islam, jihad and mujahideen. There is fear of ASG, terrorists and ISIS but why is there no ASGophobia? No terroristophobia? No ISISophobia? Fears about terrorism has turned into Islamophobia.
Why do they stereotype and label terrorists as exclusively Muslims and attribute it to Islam? Of all the billion population of Muslims, you can count by the hand the terrorists who are Muslims.

The irony of it all is that the nations who wage counterterrorism campaign and the war against terror are those who own arsenal of nuclear weapons of mass destruction.
This is utterly dangerous!

Now ask yourself, who are the real terrorists? Who are the real enemies?
The real enemies are distrust, bigotry and intolerance that besieged our minds and hearts due to extreme paranoia and ignorance. -my reply to the question:"How do you gauge extremism?"

 Joan B Kroc Institute of Justice and Peace conference on DEFYING EXTREMISM: Gendered Approaches to Religious Violence