Extremism.

Extremism became tolerance.

Faith minus vulnerability equals extremism.

And then they morph into violent extremism.

The extremism on one side begets extremism on the other, a fact we should have learned many, many times over, and both extremes in this debate are just wrong.

People in Afghanistan have been affected by the hurdles of extremism for decades.

Let us remember that Muslims have suffered the most at the hands of extremism.

Why is it that extremist organizations, whether of the far right or of the Islamist extremism

But actually going out to propagate that view is associated with either neoconservativism or with Islamist extremism.

So to the Tunisian intelligence agency, and organizations like it all over the Arab world, jihad equaled extremism,

The same impulses toward extremism are used to justify war between Sunnis and Shia, between tribes and clans.

I was part of that United Nations initiative called the Alliance of Civilizations, which was asked by Kofi Annan to diagnose the causes of extremism, and to give practical guidelines to member states about how to avoid the escalation of further extremism.

However, I do believe that it is the obligation of all leaders, in all countries, to speak out forcefully against violence and extremism.

Have you ever wondered why extremism seems to have been on the rise in Muslim majority countries over the course of the last decade?

International aid and development has been going on for years, but extremism in those societies, in many of those societies, has been on the rise.

To go around saying that I believe democratic culture is the best that we've arrived at as a form of political organizing is associated with extremism.

There's a growing extremism that comes from both sides in this debate, in response to this conflict between the law and the use of these technologies.

And the day after any military action, we would redouble our efforts to achieve a political solution that strengthens those who reject the forces of tyranny and extremism.

Had extremism or terrorism not been used to secure political goals Had the arms been turned into pens, and military expenditures been used to promote well being and amity among nations

The United States, at this point, was putting pressure on all its Arab allies, including Tunisia, to stamp out extremism in their societies, and this imam found himself suddenly in the crosshairs of the Tunisian intelligence service.

And I was actually a potent force in spreading ideas across borders, and I witnessed the rise of Islamist extremism as distinct from Islam the faith, and the way in which it influenced my co religionists across the world.