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**RELIGION & EXTREMISM**
Every culture has their own versions of extremists, different people who take the passion that they have for their religion to a new level. Some people express themselves using violence and others try to prove that their religion is better by finding everything to be wrong in other religions.

"We should invade their countries kill their leaders and convert them to Christianity" -Ann Coulter. Many Christians believe that Christianity is superior to all other religions. Some extremists believe that other gods are horrible and don't deserve to be recognized. For example they think that the god of Judaism is the devil and that Jews should not be recognized by god, until they leave that "demonic religion" An Assortment of Christians blame other religions for their problems they believe everyone should be a Christian, and that they have the purest form of religion. Christian founders expect that only Christianity deserves the government's support.

Many extremist Christians hate the idea of homosexuality, they feel as though all homosexuals should go to hell, that they're not worth gods time.

According to Evangelicals, only born again Christians are going to heaven everyone else is going to hell and the jews are completely doomed, and that god calls for them to be slain.

**Our culture is superior. Our culture is superior because our religion is Christianity and that is the truth that makes men free. **

**-Pat Buchanan **
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In the Islamic culture violence is linked with extremism for example the attacks on the Twin Towers on September 11th 2001, none of the men who were apart of the attack were stupid they were all highly educated and knew exactly what they were doing, so why did they do it? They did it to show the love they had for their religion and how far they would go to show it. They are very serious about their laws, for example if you are found a theft they believe that you should have all of your limbs amputated, and if you're a criminal you should be executed in public. =====

Although Muslims around the world have started rejecting Islamic extremism, by saying no suicide bombings,and other violence to everyday people.  Example of an extremist

**Comparison**
In a way both religions are very different but they have similarities. Both religions have very serious extremists who think of their religion being the best one and that no one can top it. Both of them can be dangerous and violent and with extremism comes rage.

Conclusion
Extremism is more then just people who think that their countries the best. It's people who know nothing more then anger and violence and only want the best for themselves and the people of their religion. Even though they think what they're doing for their country is right its really just hurting them and others in the long run. Extremism isn't always bad but it most certainly isn't always good.

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