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    %PARADOX TRUTH HERETIC DICHOTOMY CERTAIN DESIRE+970121
%EXTREMIST FUNDAMENTALISTS TERRORISTS DOUBT REPRESS+970121
 %UNCERTAINTY AMBIGUITY DECEPTION MISLEADING APPEAR+970121
 %SELF RIGHTEOUSNESS MERCY JUSTICE HUMILITY SERVICE 970121

     Extremists "go-all-the-way"  in trying to be faithful
to  the exclusive truths which they seek to affirm.   They
let no doubts, uncertainties, ambiguities or paradoxes get
in  their way.   What appears to them to be true,  must be
absolutely   true;    else  their  particular   forms   of
faithfulness will be undermined by doubts,  uncertainties,
ambiguities and/or paradoxes.   To maintain their own high
self-esteem and self-righteousness they must be absolutely
faithful, without a doubt.   They stand ready to sacrifice
their own integrity and the integrity of other individuals
and communities to be faithful to their exclusive truths.

     Extremists often find it necessary to play  collusive
games  of mutual self deception---in order to be  faithful
to their exclusive truths without doubts,   uncertainties,
ambiguities and/or paradoxes getting in their way.   There
is   no   other  way  to  maintain   the   appearance   of
faithfulness---when what they seek to be faithful to lacks
coherence and integrity.

     Once deception has been accepted as a useful tool  in
the  service  of  a cause;  there is  no  barrier  to  the
expansion  of deception,  misleading behaviors,   secrecy,
dishonesty and collusive behaviors.  If such spiritual and
psychological violence is acceptable;  it follows that all
other   forms  of  abuse  and  violence  may  also  become
acceptable;   e.g.,   political,   economic,    religious,
physical, sexual, etc.

     Beware  of  becoming  an extremist in  the  cause  of
fighting extremism!

     To heal the wounds of extremism we must transcend the
attitudes,   assumptions,   perceptual patterns,   ideals,
values,     beliefs,    convictions,    dogmas,    textual
interpretations,   self-righteousness  and tools of choice
of extremists.
                                                                                                                               
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