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This paper aims to explore intolerance or radicalism among students in the city of Medan. The phenomenon of radicalism of youth is an important phenomenon and attractive pattern of transnational, cross-cultural and cross-history. Moreover, radicalism is a sort of terrorism. Natana J. DeLong-Bas as quoted by Arza (2012) calls for driving a wave of youth such changes as the “Facebook generation” or “internet generation” because the massive and intensive use of social media in orchestration movement demanded a change. Tragically, during conducting this research, a high school student who has recently graduated attempted murder of a priest who preaches in Sint Yoseph Church in Medan. Police investigations revealed that the action of attempted murder is linked to an international terrorist network, ISIS. The sample of this study was high school students and university students in Medan including religious teachers with a total sample of 175 people (150 students and 25 teachers). As the samples are selected non-randomly, its conclusion does not represent the opinion of entire youth in Medan. The study reveals that there is no single explanation for the occurrence of radicalism among the youth. Although in general, it can be said that each religion (Islam, Catholicism, Protestantism, Hinduism, and Buddhism) is less accepting of other religions in neighborhood relations, political relations as well as in economic cooperation. In other words, young generation in Medan was also less tolerant primarily due to a clash of religious beliefs and experiences of discriminatory treatment by other religious groups.
本文旨在探讨棉兰市学生中的偏狭或激进主义。青年激进主义现象是一种跨国、跨文化、跨历史的重要现象和有吸引力的形态。此外,激进主义是一种恐怖主义。正如Arza(2012)所引用的Natana J. DeLong-Bas(2012)呼吁推动一波年轻人的变革,如“Facebook一代”或“互联网一代”,因为社交媒体在编曲运动中的大量和密集使用要求变革。不幸的是,在进行这项研究期间,一名刚毕业的高中生企图谋杀一名在棉兰圣约瑟夫教堂传教的牧师。警方调查显示,这起谋杀未遂事件与国际恐怖组织ISIS有关。本研究的样本为棉兰的高中生和大学生,包括宗教教师,共175人(150名学生和25名教师)。由于样本是非随机选取的,其结论不能代表棉兰市全体青年的意见。研究表明,青年中激进主义的出现并没有单一的解释。虽然总的来说,可以说每个宗教(伊斯兰教、天主教、新教、印度教和佛教)在邻里关系、政治关系以及经济合作中对其他宗教的接受程度较低。换句话说,棉兰的年轻一代也不太宽容,主要是由于宗教信仰的冲突和其他宗教团体的歧视性待遇。