Speakers at a virtual seminar here on Tuesday maintained that the ‘virus of extremism’ is more dangerous for the society than coronavirus.
The webinar titled ‘Dukhtaran-e-Pakistan: Role of Women in Defeating the Virus of Extremism’ was organized by the Women University Swabi. The event aimed at highlighting the role women can play and the responsibilities they have to fulfil to fight the challenges of growing extremism, intolerance and cyberterrorism in the society in the present circumstances.
In the first session of the workshop, trainer Asfand Ousaf told the participants that the ‘virus of extremism’ is more dangerous than coronavirus as extremist organizations and anti-state elements are using this crisis as an opportunity to launch a propaganda campaign in order to promote their vested interests. He said such elements are trying to entrap people by promoting specific ideologies on social media.
Asfand Ousaf said thousands of women from Europe and North Africa have voluntarily joined the ranks of such anti-state extremist elements in the past few years after getting inspired by their propaganda material available on social media and the internet.
He said several of those women also got married with the terrorists and were named as ‘Jehadi Brides’ by such elements.—INP
