Liberal Extremism

[Sa1eem]

Re: Liberal Extremism

@diwana

When liberals become anti-religious, they become extremists.

Both religious or liberals/irreligious schools of thoughts, have tendency to become extremists.

Somehow liberals (so called religiously indifferent) and irreligious people think they cannot be called extremists.

Talk about self-praising, pompous, arrogant, vainglorious attitude, to mislead people.

No doubt, you can find extremists following every thoughts, rules, believes, values, etc … and that is the reason you cannot call people with one though or other as extremists, but you can call those who show tendency of extremists as extremists.

Unfortunately, one finds extremists mostly among people who have some sort of rigid ideology, especially ideology that they think should be imposed over the world, on all people, by force or whatever.

You are right that a liberal can be extremists too, but nature of liberalism and its meaning means … to liberate oneself from constraints and promote tolerance (what Quran also promotes) … itself try to keep a person away from becoming extremists … but then possibility of a liberal becoming extremist cannot be ruled out …

So, if that happens, a liberal becomes extremist, one cannot call that person ‘liberal’ anymore (that person gets outside the fold of liberalism).

Same way when a Muslim becomes extremist, one cannot call that person ‘Muslim’ anymore (that person becomes Khwarji … gets outside the fold of Islam).