Liberal Extremism

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Re: Liberal Extremism

@Sa1eem

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).

Agree with the essence of your post.

Old example of so called secular/liberal France can be used here.

There are some ‘liberals’ who have nothing better to do than day in and day out lash out religions, religiosity and religious people.

These people are “extremists”.

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Added: Why not call those people “non-Muslims” or “kaafirs” then? Why give them a name as “Kharijis”?

You want Liberal Extremists not be called liberal at all, and want to call them simply “extremists” (you want to remove the word 'liberal")… then why not same treatment to those who act outside Islamic teaching as non-Muslims/Kaafirs?

We had this discussion before.