The case against state terrorism

EXTREMISM refers to an attitude of exceeding the limits of the golden mean. As to how to determine the right and golden mean in any situation, the answer is that the mean must be ascertained through religion and sound reason.

Without the aid of religion and reason as two inseparable civilising forces, one tends to be presump­tuous, passing beyond the proper bounds of one’s sphere in intellec­tual and social lives, and therefore to act wrongfully.