Fighting Fire with Fire

Radical intolerant Islam is not the same thing as Islam, in just the same way as radical intolerant Christianity is not Christianity.

The battle is between terrorism and tolerance, between violence and peace, within each culture. It’s amazingly symmetrical…

The appeal of late April to anti-government extremists

After six weeks, the standoff at the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge came to a close this week when the last four holdouts surrendered. The last four individuals surrendered themselves and were quickly taken into custody and charged…

Combating Extremism: with education?

Although commonsensical, the claims that higher education attainment increases the ability of individuals to be tolerant, think critically, empathize and, therefore, be more peaceful, are supported by limited empirical evidence. Despite the absence of empirical…

How many Muslims do you know? Believe it or not the majority of Muslims are just people like anyone else. They want to live their lives securely and comfortably. They struggle with their own fallablity and the ideals of their faith, just as the followers of any religion do. Clearly there are groups of Muslims who have decided that their faith…