I don't think people by nature are extremists. You will never find a population of extremists. Extremists have existed throughout the centuries on all religions. And what happens is, extremists start to have more leverage when the situation is bad.
Interpretation
Extremism is not an inherent trait of people, but rather a reaction to dire circumstances.
Queen Rania of Jordan emphasizes that extremism is not a natural condition for individuals or societies. Instead, it often flourishes during difficult times when people seek to find meaning or control in chaotic situations. By this perspective, the presence of extremists is more a reflection of societal challenges than of human nature itself.
In practice
In a speech discussing the importance of unity and understanding diversity in a community.
Now and always, hard-line policy and those who embrace it are vessels for darker forces that are at once self-cannibalizing and combustible. No good can come of them. They are unsustainable because their sense of righteousness denies human worth.
If you educate a boy, you educate a person, but if you educate a girl, you educate a family and benefit an entire community.” An entire community - now that is really interesting! Then I found the quote changed a little more on the Kingdom of Jordan website by her Royal Majesty Queen Rania of Jordan during her interview with Oprah Winfrey. Queen Rania relates the quote in these words: “As you educate a woman, you educate the family. If you educate the girls, you educate the future.
I found that being online has opened a window for me to look into other people's lives... The greatest fear that I have is losing touch.
I believe that if we want our children to understand the world beyond their classroom, we must bring the world into their classroom.
Being popular comes when you have everything. But to be liked, it means that you must be treating people with respect and you must be showing kindness toward them.
Everybody's social life in Jordan revolves around family.
A free and truly independent press - fiercely independent when necessary - is the red beating heart of freedom and democracy.
It is impossible to have a Jewish, democratic state and at the same time to control all of Eretz Israel. If we insist on fulfilling the dream in its entirety, we are liable to lose it all. Everything. That is where the extremist path takes us.
There's hope a great man's memory may outlive his life half a year.
I hope that I will be the last victim in China's long record of treating words as crimes.
I have no argument with those who see in organized religion a template or an imperative to live life according to a prescribed set of beliefs. Just give others the room, within the laws of civil society, to believe or not believe whatever they like.
The world, although well-lighted with fluorescents and incandescent bulbs and neon, is still full of odd dark corners and unsettling nooks and crannies.
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