Religious Extremism Essay

In the history of human beings religion lived alongside them, and they used it in every sector of their lives. In the past, they used religion as a source for ruling and for daily life, so this made people use religion and it passed from one generation to the next. Religion provides some rules for people to interact with each other and survive life. It was good for some parts of life, but some people think it is bad in some other ways. In history, the rulers used them to control the society and avoid problems, and they also used it for giving equal rights to everybody but they were not successful at all. Religion sometimes turns into extremism, which leads to unequal and full of conflicts between people. Religion extremism happens when the rules become restrictive to the most of the people. There are some definition to the word of extremism, such as the one mentioned in Oxford Dictionary is faith in and aid for thoughts that are extremely distant from what the greater majority of people consider right and sensible. This definition is general and is acknowledged in the globe and even in Kurdistan some people criticize some rules of Islam religion because they think it is unfair to them. A lot of people in this region

It is relevant to our culture because there are many Muslims who are Sunni or Shi’a in Kurdistan. As we know, they are in frequent conflict with each other. Sunni believe that the right messenger is prophet Mohamed, in the contrast, Shi’a believe that Ali, who was the son in law of the prophet Mohammed, is the right messenger. The two sects have different believes of Islam and they have different traditions. In Sunni has different style of prey from Shi’a, but they have also some similarities, so they challenge each other to made one side to become the other. Shi’a believes that Ali is a profit of Islam not Mohammed, and even they do not allow people to name their children as