It’s clear, as British Home Secretary Theresa May said on March 23, 2015, that the most serious and widespread form of extremism the democratic world faces is Islamist extremism. If the West does not necessarily envisage the issue as a clash of civilizations, the Islamist extremists see it as a struggle between “good, pure Muslims” and non-believers of all kinds.   The fight to control the spread of that Islamist extremism is ever more urgent with the documented information that more than 20,000 jihadist fighters from more than 90 countries have left their own countries, including several thousand from Western nations, to fight for the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (IS).   The U.S. State Department spokeswoman, Marie Harp, on February 17, 2015 spoke of the need to find the “root causes” that lead people to join the (unnamed) terrorist groups, and their lack of opportunity for jobs.   Even the State Department will find that the...(Read Full Article)