{"id":20823,"date":"2016-11-17T10:04:42","date_gmt":"2016-11-17T10:04:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.acnmalta.org\/?p=18859"},"modified":"2016-11-17T10:04:42","modified_gmt":"2016-11-17T10:04:42","slug":"acns-religious-freedom-report-warns-of-global-impact-of-religious-hyper-extremism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/acnmalta.org\/_oldsite\/2016\/11\/17\/acns-religious-freedom-report-warns-of-global-impact-of-religious-hyper-extremism\/","title":{"rendered":"ACN&#8217;s Religious Freedom report warns of global impact of religious \u201chyper-extremism\u201d &#8211; ACN K\u00f6nigstein"},"content":{"rendered":"<style type=\"text\/css\"><\/style><h2><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>ACN\u2019s\u00a0 new Religious Freedom Report warns of global impact of religious \u201chyper-extremism\u201d <\/strong><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Religious Fundamentalism \u2013 more lethal than ever seen before \u2013 is unleashing death, destruction, displacement and instability at unprecedented levels, according to a report out today.<\/p>\n<p>The Religious Freedom in the World 2016 report, produced by Catholic charity Aid to the Church in Need, warns of the global impact of \u201ca new phenomenon of religiously-motivated violence\u201d, which it terms \u201cIslamist hyper-extremism\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>In defining this new ultra-extremism, the report highlights distinguishing features which are described as evidence of the radicals\u2019 threat to world peace, stability and social harmony in the West.<\/p>\n<p>Key characteristics of \u201cIslamist hyper-extremism\u201d include systematic attempts to drive out all dissenting groups \u2013 including moderates, unprecedented levels of cruelty, global reach and the effective use of social media, often used to glamorise violence.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Adding its voice to calls for Daesh (ISIS) persecution to be recognised as genocide, the report\u2019s authors warn of a widespread attempt to replace pluralism with a religious mono-culture.<\/p>\n<p>The report, which assesses the situation regarding religious freedom in each of the world\u2019s 196 countries, concludes: \u201cIn parts of the Middle East including Iraq and Syria, this hyper-extremism is eliminating all forms of religious diversity and is threatening to do so in parts of African and the Asian Sub-Continent.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>This is echoed in the report\u2019s foreword by Father Jacques Mourad, a Christian monk who was held by Daesh in Syria for five months before escaping in October 2015.<\/p>\n<p>Fr Mourad writes: \u201cOur world teeters on the brink of complete catastrophe as extremism threatens to wipe out all trace of diversity in society.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The biennial report, which draws on research by journalists, academics and clergy, records that in the two-year period under review which ended in June, attacks linked to \u201chyper-extremism\u201d had taken place in one out of five countries worldwide \u2013 from Australia to Sweden as well as 17 African countries.<\/p>\n<p>Countering the popular view that governments are mostly to blame for persecution, the report puts the blame on non-state militants in 12 of the 23 worst-offending countries.<\/p>\n<p>With refugee numbers at a new high of 65.3 million according to the UN, the report describes extremist Islamism as a \u201ckey driver\u201d in the massive displacement of people fleeing countries such as Afghanistan, Somalia and Syria.<\/p>\n<p>The Aid to the Church in Need report goes on to highlight the knock-on effect on countries in the West whose socio-religious fabric is being destabilised by the arrival of unprecedented numbers of refugees.<\/p>\n<p>Such problems are, according to the report, compounded by the West falling victim to a sudden increase in fundamentalist Islamist attacks.<\/p>\n<p>But, according to the report, not all problems regarding religious freedom are to do with militant Islam \u2013 with a \u201crenewed crackdown\u201d on religious groups reported in China and Turkmenistan and an ongoing denial of human rights for people of faith in worst-offending North Korea and Eritrea.<\/p>\n<p>Nor is the outlook universally bleak \u2013 looking at Bhutan, Egypt and Qatar, countries notorious for religious freedom violations, the report found that the situation had improved for faith minorities during the period under review.<\/p>\n<p>John Pontifex, London-based Editor-in-Chief of the report, said: \u201cA core finding of our research is the emergence of a form of religious hyper-extremism which has left many parts of the world scarred by its savagery, which is the hallmark of its evident genocidal intent.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur report is a wake-up call both to highlight that extremism has entered a new and entirely more dangerous phase, and the role of the West<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf there is just one finding of the Religious Freedom in the World 2016 report it is that faith groups need to tackle hatred within their own ranks.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat prospects are there for peace when powerful sections within specific faith groups have nothing but contempt for those who do not share their world view \u2013 and who deny the right to life not just to people of other faiths but also to moderates from among their own community?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe other problem borne out in the report is that Western policy makers frequently just don\u2019t get religion and need to rethink their whole outlook.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s no longer compatible to say that traditional faith practice belongs to the past when the evidence shows that for millions and millions of people \u2013 a new generation \u2013 religion is at the centre of their lives, driving everything they do.<\/p>\n<p>This is the 13th edition of the report, which is produced by Aid to the Church in Need.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong><em>ACN 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