Religious Extremism
With violence embracing many religions and cultures throughout the Nation and World a widespread phenomenon is created, which afflicts all religions within our society. Extremism, religious fundamentalism, breeds terrorism, and constitutes an open door for all forms of extremism. It is a totalitarian movement, which denies and blocks all the virtues by which individuals can express their individually, through religion. "When we close our hearts to others, our eyes are closed to see the beauty of God in them. The message of Islam, Judaism, Christianity, and all over religions is one of love and service to others. If God decides to care and love and feed even those who deny his existence, then who are we to deprive someone else of our love just because he/she is of different color or speaks a different language or is born in a
One of the fastest-growing hate groups in the 1990s is the World Church of the Creator (WCOTC), based in East Peoria, Illinois In the early 1990s, WCOTC emerged as one of the most violent hate groups on the radical right, attracting several hundred neo-Nazi skinheads and other white supremacists from the U.S. and around the world. different country or prays to the same God but in a different direction, using different words?" (Athar) The World Church of the Creator is one extremist group and exemplifies the ideals of terrorism within religion. Ben Klassen organized this new type of extremism in 1973, which marked a new type of evil to the world. They are a non-profit, non-Christian, religious organization and have members all over the world that promote terrorism. Its main cause is to promote the religion of "Creativity,
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