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"Religious extremism" as in "people take REALLY seriously what God considers and fear His judgment" would only be a positive thing, as it would create a self-policing community of righteous human beings. Now, I'm seeing it from a very Muslim perspective, which includes a degree of religious tolerance ("To you your system and to me is mine", 109:6) and a core of righteousness and correct behaviour before everything ("Piousness is not facing the West or the East, but pious is one who... gives money out of love to the relatives, the needy and the orphans... and those who keep their pledges, and are patient in the face of adversity and hardship.", 2:177). If you mean religious extremism in the "Deus Vult" crusade kinda way, or the "I gotta murder my daughter because she had sex before marriage" way, then yeah, the question starts making sense.
So, under that paradigm, since "religious extremism" basically means "I can do X because God wants me to", this one is more dangerous, because it allows for everything, greed included, to be rationalized.
That would depend on the god I'd say and what people think that god says.
Yeah, and whilst a very intellectually competent and kind hearted person would understand and appreciate God's selfless creation and act accordingly independently, "there's one upright man among a thousand" (Ecclesiastes 7:28), so I recommend reading the Qur'an for guidance. From the Bible, I recommend the Sermon of the Mount to understand Jesus' message and conception of God and, ofc, Solomon's Ecclesiastes for the brave existentialists out there who don't always think in black and white, all or nothing ways. Most people should innately know right from wrong though, but the waters get muddy in the presence of propaganda and ideological corruption, and you can turn any sheep into a wolf to their fellow man.
Which one is correct, the shiite doctrine or the sunni doctrine?
Neither, have the Qur'an as your axiomatic base (and find wisdom in Scripture if you're curious) and use discernment for everything that wasn't specified. I'm against sectarianism, especially when God already said "believers are brothers" (49:10) and even included the Jews and Christians in the group despite our ideological differences...
Hello brother/sister. Religious extremism as in current western example.
So in your perspective imagine a muslim that walk up to the non-muslim cashier and start yelling about how eating octopus is Haram in their branch of Islam before calling police.
Except it's their church not branch and instead of eating octopus the cashier was wearing a rainbow t-shirt.
Hi hi hi! 👋 Would God condone me just going around harassing people when there's no blatant immorality/injustice taking place? Wouldn't that make me the c*nt in this scenario? Certainly, right? Even if you think something immoral but not blatant is taking place, all you can do is calmly and with humanity and kindness warn people against it. Even prophet Muhammad was "just a warner" (46:9) and "not responsible for people's guidance" (2:272), so who am I to pretend to fill larger shoes?
But yeah, religious extremism in the form that I explained is probably the more dangerous one, albeit the more common one is probably an excess in greed. Idk what the maths to determine the worse one are, but I know we gotta be wary of both. 🤷