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Extremist and society

Men and women do not usally mingle in the ultra religious Afghanistan unless they are related and praties involving both genders are are and secret affairs.The Taliban during their rule from 1996-2001, had banned all the entertainment ,including tv and music and barred women from working , interacting with men other than family and leaving home unescorted by a male relative(Time Of India 28august 2012).

If we look at the extremist all over the world we can easily draw many common points

• ·         Extremists are always rigid , do not ready to change
• ·         World should run according to their will
• ·         Securing their interest is more important than others
• ·         According to them women must abide by all the norms to protect culture
• ·         They criticize others culture , try to others culture out of their community

Above are the similarities which extremist all over the world share. Like in India Shriram sena attacked youngsters who are coming out of club in Bangalore , the reason given was party goers were not in decent cloths. Now question arises what is correct measure for decency ? and in democratic republic country like India don’t we have a right to wear anything that comforts us ?

Extremist grow because there are sections in every society which are not happy with the changing situations they are orthodox which like to live in past. These extremist people take advantage of this and propose false ideology with using irrelevant information and weird logic. In  order to avoid this government must start direct dialogue with citizens .Some politicians have started what they called as “janata darbar” but is this kingdom and is leader a king to call it as a darbar ?There must be initiative for dialogues not for address.

Recently Mumbai police arrested criminals involved in raza academy riots , many of them are under 20, misguided by extremist ideologies .Instead of  filing criminal charges police offered them counseling. This was purposely done to show them how they were wrong and make sure they themselves will not attempt same things and will prevent others from doing it. That’s the power of dialogue  and a way to end extremism .