The Concept of National Identity and its Role in Confronting the Phenomenon of Extremism

Abstract

Abstract

The issue of a unified national identity at the present time is one of the main pillars

and a self-evident postulate for the creation of a cohesive and unified society with all its diverse sects, for establishing good governance, and for strengthening the pillars of the state.

However, there are many challenges, the most important of which is the phenomenon of extremism facing the national identity and its aspiration to create a society blessed with equal rights and duties among the members of the one nation, as extremism has violated societies politically, economically, socially and culturally, whether this is at the local national level or at the global level. And on hitting or tearing up the national identity or trying to ignite the fire of civil war or spreading sectarian ideology among the people, especially if it turns into an applied behavior and an actual practice represented by terrorism.

The importance of the subject of the study may lie in finding a unified national identity, which is one of the necessities of contemporary life, while respecting the privacy of all sects, ethnicities and priorities, after what extremism has caused by tearing the nation’s unity and independent identity and attempts to create conflicting sub-identities. In order to strengthen the national spirit and respect for the unified national identity, the state has the duty to promote the concept of citizenship represented by giving individuals full equality in the enjoyment of rights and duties and the availability of opportunities for social justice, promoting concepts such as social integration, community peace, peaceful coexistence and respect for the freedoms of others in the ideological, intellectual or religious aspect (accepting the other Strengthening the education of young people with a sense of national belonging and making attempts to eliminate sectarianism in all its forms in society in order to build a sound and healthy civilized society from the political, social and economic point of view.