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Extremist Thought in The New Media and Its Impact on Society… F. Abdel Sater et al (155


                       media influence in any society, as        righteousness. Imam Ali (PBUH)
                       they  are  the  primary  gateway          was the closest one to the truth

                       to  influencing  public  opinion,         and  they  were  the  closest  to
                       and  crystallizing  its  ideas  in  a     falsehood, but in the end, they
                       way  that  is  consistent  with  the      were all on the truth!

                       goals envisaged for managing.                Some  dangers  in  Khamis’s

                         So, we present some practical           presentation come as follows:
                       titles  that  were  broadcast  in         •  The  infallible  Imam  in  the

                       more than one episode, and on                rank of public
                       more than one occasion and year,          •  Marginalizing the essence of
                       within  the  concept  of  contrast           the wars that were waged to

                       or contention such as titles that            protect Islam from deviation
                       enter  the  deep  of  Islamic             •  Wasting  the  truth  and
                       beliefs.  Notably,  the  focus  is           distracting  the  follower’s
                       on  the repetition  of  a  certain           mind  by  overlapping  more

                       idea to instill a certain concept            than one title during the main
                       of intellectual extremism, here              topic, as if what is meant is

                       are  some  of  them  that  the               indoctrination,  which  consists
                       paper analyzes and compares:                 of slips that the mind absorbs
                         • Who was right, Imam Ali                  without  discussion.  On  one
                       (PBUH) or Muawiya? It hosts                  hand, Khamis summarized the

                       a  figure  to  talk  about  a                war of Jamal and Nahrawan,
                       controversial  issue,  spoken  by            describing  them  as  all  the
                       Othman Khamis about the wars                 efforts  between  Imam  Ali

                       between Imam Ali (PBUH)  and                 (PBUH), the Companions, and
                       the Companions.                              others.  On  the  other  hand,  he
                         In  this  debate,  Khamis  said            asked God to forgive them all.

                       that  the  Qur’anic  verse  about            Since they believed  that they
                       the  Holy  Prophet  with  the                were  the  truth,  they  should
                       believers  when  they  pledge                not  be  mentioned  but  with

                       allegiance  to  you  under  the              goodness, because the Qur’anic
                       tree (Ref: The Qur'an, 48: 18),              verses      and       narrations
                       gives  the  meaning  of  inner               mentioned them as pure.
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