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Essay On Extremism

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Current public issues and debates about violence and extremism have seen increasing tension towards communities especially Muslims. Muslim populations have been poured with negative perception on terrorism, war on terror and violence attack (Staub E., 2007). There is violence in most parts of the world and people often conclude that Muslim is violent based on wars in countries such as Palestine, Pakistan and Philippines that involves Muslim people in which they simply believe and put the offense on Islam believers. This misconception towards Muslim on the aggressive and extremist on violent has spread all over the globe.
Issues on violence and extremism have the widest attention worldwide. Crime and violence have been contagious nowadays among young people. Violent extremism does not suddenly appear, but perhaps there are certain aspects do play a role in this development of attitude towards extremism. There is no single factor or pathway into it. Reports on the increasing incidence of violence such as gangsterism, vandalism, rape, and bullying and even murder are kept being highlighted especially in media. According to statistic by Royal Malaysia Police or known as Polis Diraja Malaysia (PDRM), showed that the …show more content…

This study could map how many support on violent extremism, the opinions and perception of young adult towards violent acts, the characteristics and background of the people who support the violence and is culture and religion could add some values into the radicalism and extremism. There exist many researches demonstrating violent behaviour that however little work has been done to investigate the support of violent extremism under certain circumstances. There is no doubt that further understand and research should be done on how violent extremism could happen in order to prevent occurrences in the

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