Jihadism, Nazism, Communism; three popular movements embraced by moderate human beings who were sold by extremist elements.
But all three movements represent threats to the United States in particular. As a result, black and white thinking is really a response for our survival, as a threatening enemy forces us to reassess our own faith in our own country as well as ourselves, and making us reject the enemy, his culture and what he believes in.
Regarding the current threat of global Jihad, we cannot afford to wallow in the grays of self-reflection and self-loathing, while a movement is on the offense that sees only black and white. Our "understanding" will only encourage their global resolve. The movement has declared war on us and we must respond with decisive controlled rage, which I hope will "encourage" the Muslim world to get out of its denial and cleanses itself from its home-grown virulence, before we have Total War.
But all three movements represent threats to the United States in particular. As a result, black and white thinking is really a response for our survival, as a threatening enemy forces us to reassess our own faith in our own country as well as ourselves, and making us reject the enemy, his culture and what he believes in.
Regarding the current threat of global Jihad, we cannot afford to wallow in the grays of self-reflection and self-loathing, while a movement is on the offense that sees only black and white. Our "understanding" will only encourage their global resolve. The movement has declared war on us and we must respond with decisive controlled rage, which I hope will "encourage" the Muslim world to get out of its denial and cleanses itself from its home-grown virulence, before we have Total War.
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Black and white thinking, "Our God is good and your God is evil" is common worldwide.
Labeling an enemy as evil, the practice of demonizing an enemy, is necessary to generate the type of zealousness required for fanatical behavior.
Most people have a desire to be good, but an extremist takes this desire to be good, i.e. serve God in a violent manner (Think Crusades, Americans killing Indians, etc.) by killing the "evil" doers.
So we have both sides of the conflict labeling the other as evil, which of course leads to the psychological payoff of making them good when they try to destroy the evil ones. If they are evil, then fighting them automatically makes me good and righteous in the eyes of God.
A balanced reasonable person knows that we all have some good and bad in us, that we are neither all good nor all evil.
Extremist thinkers generate this demon (The evil) and instill feelings of Godliness (The good) in their zealous followers.
Fanaticism is practiced by cult like organizations worldwide, where reason and common sense are replaced with an other worldly effort to fulfill a political cause.