Khaberni - The Minister of Awqaf, Islamic Affairs, and Holy Places, Mohammed Al-Khalayleh, said on Wednesday that extremist thinking does not flip in a moment, but extends over many years with deep roots and appears when it finds a nurturing environment or suitable milieu to spread.
Al-Khalayleh clarified on "Khaberni" that what we see today of religious extremism is the result of a person's bias towards a particular idea or behavior, emphasizing that the Islamic religion is innocent of all these ideas, as there is no place for extremism in the teachings of Islam, but the problem lies in the extremist thinking that may later turn into terrorism.
He added that extremism might begin from simple individual practices, such as a person's bias in performing prayers or his ideas towards others, and when society does not respond to his religiously, socially, and intellectually rejected convictions, he begins to try to impose them by force, and it might reach the point of storing weapons and seeing society as an enemy to him.
