How do we define extremism?

[sabre]

So alot of talk around the world about combating extremism.

First thing is to ask is how do we define what is extremism and who are the extremists?

In saudi arabia the islamic wahabi government there declared atheists as extremists and threat to national security to be atheist over there is a crime, to convert a muslim to another religious ideological belief system is also a crime there. Yet western atheist secular governments are sucking off the saudi islamic wahabi arabs and aiding them with weapons and other military training, intelligence and resources to fight their political regional enemies.

We have the indian government killing religious and ethnic minorities who just want freedom and basic human rights for their people since 1947. are the people who fight against the brutal indian state  now defined as extremists?

We have our own religious Sikh heros and Guru's of the past who spoke out and physically fought with weapons against the enemies of humanity and Sikhs yet at the time they were deemed extremists and threat to the state by the invading islamic mughul and afghan govt authorities.

Bhagat and udam singh are much celebrated sikh and indian revolutionary figures but today's standards would come under the tag of extremists and terrorists

So where do we draw and line and how do we know what is extremism?

[SAadmin]

I think attribute of extremism is sub category of wider theme in Gurbani/Gurmat which is manmukh and gurmukh. Anyone who follows Guru's way in sikh context- dual dharam dya ka poot (Dharma is son of Compassion) is Gurmukh which lives and knows that dya - compassion is actual basic foundation of any dharam. To understand and live dya, one has to live and operate from total different way of being than our egoic conditioned psychological mindset. It's a shift of identity where conditioned - personal will/ego is gone and it does not come in a way but one is living and operating through Guru's will (attuned to inner Guru- higher power- pure intuitive consciousness) which cannot even be confined to our worldly moral standards but rather applied on individual to individual case, moment to moment case.

One cannot fight or define extremism by western standards but with deep non dual self awareness of creation and creator. From absolute stand point, essence of gurmat - any action done in duality is manmukh act/five vices- where than each actions gets further fragmented into further labels depending on action- whether its anger, hatred, jealously, partiality, violence against innocents, extremism, terrorism etc etc