Countries that have popular, well-funded public service broadcasters encounter less rightwing extremism and corruption and have more press freedom, a report from the European Broadcasting Union has found.
But the undercurrent of accusations of extremism and corruption was clear – as was the message of the politically driven Charities Commission's decision to put 55 Muslim charities on a watchlist for links to "radicalisation and extremism".
Salah Uddin Shoaib Choudhury, a Muslim editor and commentator in Bangladesh, has a rare virtue -- he champions dialogue and decency in a culture hemmed in by extremism and corruption.
The attack underscored the difficulties facing Russia's government as it continues to grapple with Islamic extremism, widespread corruption and clan rivalries in the Caucasus Mountains, which are on the country's southern rim.
We've reported that US Secretary of State John Kerry urged the Nigerian government to build trust with the people as a means of tackling extremism and corruption.
Clinton said the U.S. supports efforts to address the underlying causes of extremism: poverty, corruption, social inequality and political divisions that have boiled into an insurgency.
Fugard, born of English and Afrikaans parents, suggested that playwrights are wary of criticising delicate themes like Muslim extremism or black corruption, adding: "That's part of the problem".
This recast message allows Capriles to talk directly to struggling families who aspire to move into the middle class: people who've come to depend on government social programs but are increasingly weary of the ideological extremism, waste and corruption that hamper the chavista state's efforts to solve their everyday problems.
The growth of emerging economies, an aging population, right and left extremism, and political corruption are threatening its future.
Where unemployment, stagnation and corruption sprout, extremism usually takes root.
