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Religious Radicalism has been a trending topic not only today but for many years now. Many of the deadliest wars or attacks have been started because of this. I consider it to be an interesting topic to talk about in this project in order to learn more about it and have an idea of what is happening around us and what can we do to help. As we investigated I discovered new terms like Jihad which is a movement of the muslims to spread their religion. Also I discovered new NGO's that I didn't know about their existence. One of them is IAFR, which I liked a lot and support their ideologies because they want to spread freedom of religion around the world.

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Religious Freedom was originated in Boston, Massachusetts . It started as a movement in order to gain freedom of religion and then it became an organisation in the 1990s after lots of congresses.
Right now they are working in promoting the human right of religious freedom and belief in India. In order to educate communities about this right and for them to understand it, they have stablished a program since 2006 which is in charge of teaching them all of the human rights.
Some of their many achievements include
- Organizing HRE programs in states like Tripura.
- Recognition of IARF work by legislators and state agency personnel.
- During the years IARF has expanded in lots of countries including the most populated onces as India.

This NGO relates to religious radicalism because the IARF wants for all the world to have a freedom of religion right in order for the religious radicalism to be stopped. Religious radicalism occurs because people from one religion want everybody to believe the same as them and they act up violently and force people to their religion. What IARF wants to achieve is for everyone have freedom to choose whatever they want to believe in and stop all tis wars.

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The International Association for Religious Freedom

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About the IARF

The International Association for Religious Freedom (IARF) is a UK-based charity working for freedom of religion & belief at a global level.

The world's oldest global inter-religious organization, we have a century-plus history of encouraging interfaith dialogue & tolerance, with member groups in 25 countries, from faith traditions including Buddhism, Christianity, Hinduism, Islam, Judaism, Baha-i, Shinto & Zoroastrianism.

With member organisations, regional co-ordinators, and national chapters in 16 countries, IARF is well placed to obtain local perspectives on religious freedom concerns and issues.
Our Priorities
IARF Trifold Pamphlet 2015 (PDF, 2 pages)

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About the IARF The International Association for Religious Freedom (IARF) is a UK-based charity working for freedom of religion & belief at a global level. The world's oldest global inter-religious organization, we have a century-plus history of encouraging interfaith dialogue & tolerance, with member groups in 25

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There are many reason why we chose  this topic, but the one that I consider the most important one is to have more knowledge about this topic, and to learn about why most of the conflicts that are happening today were caused. The reason in most of the cases is religious radicalism. This project motivates me a lot to continue with research about the topic to learn more about this. Religious radicalism can be a good or a bad thing, and I want to learn more about it. I feel that the world is in a big struggle because of the different religions and the way that people live them. Many people, including me can feel unsafe in a world that causes war because of your beliefs, we should feel free to choose our religion and live it as we want without causing a war. Many people feel this way, religious radicalism is a today’s trending topic and it is also affecting our world. Believe it or not actually religious radicalism is affecting the world’s conditions.

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United Nations first General Assembly of the United Nations was at Westminster Central Hall in London, England. One week later, the U.N. Security Council met for the first time and established its rules of procedure. U.N. headquartes are located in New York City. The Human Rights Council in 2013 was working in a campaign for Tibet. The campaign is call "International Campaign for Tibet" (ICT) it is working to interact with representatives of governments from around the world and educate them on the harsh realities inside Tibet. ICT will continue working to speak out about human rights violations in Tibet and work for a resolution at the UNHRC that condemns the Chinese government’s human rights violations. Main things the U.N. has made is; "Food Aid" in 1961 the UN's World Food Programme (WFP) is the world's largest humanitarian aid organisation addressing hunger and promoting food security. "Refugee Aid" High Commissioner on Refugees is another success of the United Nations it has helped over 17 million asylum-seekers and refugees. Unicef is one of the members of the UN's Development Group, and is the world's leading organisation for children in over 190 countries. The U.N. is related with our topic because the Human Rights committee looks out so that peoples rights are respected. If Radicalist doesn't respect someone else rights Human Rights can interven.
http://www.un.org/en/index.html

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I voted for this topic of Religious Radicalism because I see it a debated topic in society in many points of view. I know that being radical can be a good thing if it’s not in exes. I wanted to research more about this topic because I am at a catholic group and they say many times the word radical referring in a good way, but when you apply it in a religion extremist group it may not be in a good way. It’s sad seeing people following their religion maybe in a mistaken way, in the example of a radical extremist. I think people have limits and have in mind the morals and ethics ways to do something, not following in an extremist way a religion that is not always the truth.

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As a team we first read all the topics and each team member later chose the four best options that were; “An overpopulated world? The demographic challenge of the future”, “Religious Radicalism”, “Human trafficking and demographics in Latin America/ European Union” and “The impact of free trade”. For choosing one out of those four each member voted giving the reasons why, our principal motivation was getting informed about how we can help as an individual to decrease Religious Radicalism. Personally the topic that won (“Religious Radicalism”) was the one I wanted since I had always been very curious about it. How I see it Religious Radicalism is making extremely violent acts in the name of religion. I always wanted to know why extremist are willing to undertake violent acts in the service of God without thinking that the people they are damaging are sons of God too and that most of the victims are innocent they only have different believes. This topic makes me feel sick, I feel ashamed about having people in the world with that kind of thinking. The thinking of hurting someone so bad just because it is different or beliefs are different than theirs. With this activity the whole group learn a lot about this topic and about the different NGO’s helping the world. I think it has inspired us to be more openminded and to start by helping our peers if later on we want to change the world just like NGO’s do.

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After researching about this topic, I realised many thinks I hadn't considered before. For once, I realised that most or many of the current wars we are experiencing right now, are because of this. The different ideologies or ways that this religions think, causes great conflict as they all want to be superior and more powerful. I also learned how to combine the subjects of chemistry and history, think I had never done before. I learned that the pollution is a great factor since it is one of the biggest problems we are facing today which actually related with Religious Radicalism.

As a conclusion, I learned a lot of new things and new concepts I hadn't thought of before.

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JEWISH GROUPS OFFER MIXED REACTIONS TO REPORT ON RADICAL ISLAM

In the last weeks a study was made and it claims that many Canadian mosques and Islamic schools are espousing extremism were mixed and this is not particularly surprising. They use school’s libraries and social media postings to measure the amount of extremist. The federal government has said it will create a national office of counter-radicalization and last year, the Senate defense and security committee called on the government to work with the provinces and local Muslim communities to look into the training and certification of imams in Canada. The committee had issued a report saying that some foreign-trained imams had been disseminating extremist ideology out of step with Canadian values and potentially contributing to radicalization. Quiggin and Shoaaib’s report was not supported by any Liberal senators from the committee.

Shupac, Jodie. "Jewish Groups Offer Mixed Reactions to Report on Radical Islam." The Canadian Jewish News. N.p., 2016. Web. 12 Sept. 2016.

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AZERBAIJANI STATE FIGHTING HARD AGAINST RELIGIOUS RADICALISM

Source: PA official

Azerbaijani state has being fighting hard against religious radicalism, says PA official.
In Azerbaijan, the government is fighting against many different elements of religious radicalism, since they believe that groups like Wahhabism, radical Shiism, or the Fetullah Terrorist Organization (FETO) had already been creating conflicts. The state is going to prevent radical religious ideologies, actually, the member of the Public and Political Affairs Department at the Azerbaijan, Bahruz Hasanov said somethings about it. He said that there is no space for any religious radical group in the state (Arzerbaijan) and that the state is now supporting more the media since it has been enlightening the people since long time ago, he believes that the actual fight with FETO is a topical problem. The PA said, that Arzebajian’s Constitution says nothing that clearly states the separation of the religion for the state.

"Azerbaijani State Fighting Hard against Religious Radicalism, Says PA Official." APA -. N.p., 25 Aug. 2016. Web. 12 Sept. 2016.

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France began isolating Islamic extremists in jails after Paris attacks
THE GUARDIAN
In January of 2015, Francia suffered of several Islamic Radicals attacks including the storming of the offices of Charlie Hebdo magazine, and the killing of about 17 people. France´s prime minister, Manuel Valls vowed to act to this attacks by  isolating extremists from the rest of the prisoner population, to avoid jails from being used as a breeding ground for radicalism, and wanted to spread this solution world wide.
Over five projects were set up to provide separate dedicated units for a number of radicalised prisoners in detention in France. The discussion still remains, about the enrolment across France. The former justice minister Christiane Taubira expressed “serious reservations” over the idea of grouping extremists together concerning the manifestation of Jihadis.
The French prisons controller, Adeline Hazan, said rolling out the project across France was not currently “realistic” due to the amount of extremist related to Iraq and Syria, this would create an overcrowding in prisons.
Chrisafis, A. (2016). France began isolating Islamic extremists in jails after Paris attacks. Retrieved September 12, 2016, from Chrisafis, A. (2016). France began isolating Islamic extremists in jails after Paris attacks. Retrieved September 13, 2016, from https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/aug/22/france-isolation-units-islamic-extremist-prisoners-uk-paris-attacks

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The Universal Tolerance Organization (UTO) is a NGO based in Norway, which began in 2012. The main objective is to help in "global peace, security, justice, democracy, respect for human rights and sustainable development", as the official page of UTO stated. Throughout the four years that this organization has been active it as has achieved multiple things, for example: many norms have been created, they have reinforced the moral aspect of the religious radicalism and have made great effort to somehow implement this in schools. The official webpage of this NGO is: http://universaltolerance.org/, and the official contact is info@Universaltolerance.org.

This NGO relates, a lots to our topic because this organization is helping eradicate the different radical opinions some people have considering different religions. Also, since it has been trying to make its way up to the schools, it also has to do with the pollution between religious radicalism because by this will make a greater awareness on pollution.

Universal Tolerance Organization. (n.d.). Retrieved September 13, 2016, from https://www.somondo.org/organizations/1107/universal-tolerance-organization

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We interviewed Miss Sara and she shared with us this important information...

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