The UK has experienced extremist incidents that relate to the underlying motives of the Paris attackers.
This is particularly true when communities have direct experience of extremist violence or rule.
Regional allies with experience fighting extremist Islamism, including Libya's Muammar Gaddafi, Syria's Bashar al-Assad and Pakistan's Pervez, became increasingly important, even as those dictators pursued their own agendas.
The retired US marine general leading Washington's coalition against Islamic State (Isis) is a hawk with years of experience battling extremist insurgencies in Iraq and Afghanistan, but he also boasts impressive intellectual credentials and an unusual amount of foreign policy experience for a senior officer.
In The Will to Power, Nietzsche speaks of Schopenhauer as his most important precursor adding that he has deepened Schopenhauer pessimism and "by devising its extremist antithesis first really experienced it". In this course I propose to examine Schopenhauer's and Nietzsche's metaphysical, epistemological, and moral doctrines with a view to their similarities and differences.
Other than being rejected by Hamas and other extremist groups, he still experiences major difficulties from within the Fatah organization.
As Adel al-Toraifi, a political-science student and friend of Mansour's, told me, "Mansour has personally experienced almost every role in modern Saudi society" -- from his painful childhood, to his long history with Islamic scholarship, to his experience as an extremist and his political reformation.
For a few people — a Christian in Afghanistan, an Iraqi in Massachusetts, a Jew who called his co-religionists in the United States "soft in the head" — direct experience with Islamic extremists seemed to have darkened their views.
"It is no longer a matter of two sides but of something bigger, and out of our control," says a Damascene dissident with a furrowed brow.Particularly worrying is the growing involvement of Islamist extremists, who profit both from experience in Iraq and supply lines to Iraq's lawless Sunni regions.
Her research explores state governance and moral experience, the mainstreaming of extremist political sentiment, and the epistemology of global aging.
