The Intellectual Environment for the Incubation of Extremism and Terrorism and the role of universities in standing against it intellectually and scientifically

Abstract

Extremism has become rampant in many societies, including some advanced societies, albeit in the old days of humanity. However, though “globalization,” the scientific revolution and tremendous development of information technology, communications, and digitalism, it is a global threat that could not have been measured a few decades ago, whether in the depth of its impact, its speed and vast outreach, until the whole world became a “space” for the virus of the terrorism. It is no longer just a danger to civil and community peace, but has become a global threat to international peace and security. Extremism becomes material when it moves from theory to practice, from thought to reality, let alone if religion is used as an excuse to abolish, exclude and impose opinion by force, violence and terrorism outside the rule of law and the judiciary. The phenomenon of extremism has spread the occurrence of violence and terrorism, which hit the Arab and Islamic countries at their core. It threatens fragmentation, if not division, which sometimes takes a social character, particularly when it finds a suitable environment for hatching eggs. This research highlights a number of core topics, including: Trilateral extremism, fanaticism and terrorism, and the ideological environment that incubates terrorism. In advocating both new ideas and discourse, through approaches to dry out and confronts it intellectually, politically, legally, socially, educationally and religiously, in addition to the security and intelligence front without forgetting the media and civil front, especially the participation of civil society.