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                       for  its  presentation,  despite  it      as  groups  affiliated  with  the
                       achieving one million and two             Al-Tahrir army, Al-Nusra, and

                       hundred views (1.2 M).                    Jund Al-Sham.
                         All  these  points  mean  that
                       there are dangers in the role of          How to Confront

                       this media and its contribution, to       Since the new media constituted
                       spreading  extremism  against             the main tool in strengthening
                       Islam  and  the  Islamic  nation          the  arm  of  extremist  groups,

                       that resulted from this discourse,        these groups needed to seek to
                       which  can  be  summarized  in            establish media rooms through
                       the following three points:               which  they  could  carry  out

                       1.  Characteristics  of  extremism        polarization  and  recruitment
                          and terrorism                          operations. Since the sixties of
                       2.  The  impact  of  extremist            the last century, they have used
                          discourse on Islamic followers         all available means to achieve

                       3.  The  geographical  area  of           their  goals  (Kinkar,  n.d.),  the
                          the  spread  of  intellectual          most recent of which was the

                          extremism and terrorism                invasion  of  modern  technology
                         In the statement of the third           and exploitation of it to spread
                       point above, the questionnaire            their extremist religious belief
                       was  distributed  to  a  random           and approach, can be said that

                       sample of 100 respondents, in             this  media  is  a  double-edged
                       the  geographic  area  that  was          sword  and  a  weapon  that
                       exposed  to  high-level  extremist        spreads a torrent of extremism

                       discourse,  specifically  in  Syria,      thought  concepts  that  destroy
                       which  was  subjected  to  a              human  life  and  society,  in
                       sectarian war of genocide, in terms       addition to the values that are

                       of  evaluating  the  interaction          alien to our Muslim societies,
                       and  extent  of  its  impact  with        as well as an extremist approach
                       the  media,  and  the  reflection         to thinking and behavior.

                       of  its  inflammatory  dialogue              So,  confronting  intellectual
                       especially  on  the  ISIS’s  and          extremism         begins        by
                       extremist  sects’  followers  such
                                                                 establishing  a  solid  base  that
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