I'm massively stepping outside the boundaries here, generally speaking I don't delve too much into politics, though I'm not going to lie and say I have never talked about them or have never had arguments over such matters. However I've realized that a lot of these questions, remarks, etc. tend to have flaws that I feel get overlooked easily, and at times I don't think man gives real sense of thought of such matters either. Hear me out.
Humanity is known for a lot of things, good and bad, we could sit and create a list for either side all day, but I think every human here is intelligent enough to know what's what, if you don't, I recommend you indulge and educate yourself before committing to think further than this point. Man is most interesting, we operate in very counterintuitive ways to achieve what we believe is the right way to pass the finish line, whether it be towards others or within our own lives period. There is a catch here that most of you likely just missed after reading that sentence to yourself, mentally or out loud. So much fighting, when the source of the problem has always been right in front of us this entire time. Who or what is the problem, first responses, "religion, politics, extremists, blah blah blah" but what if the answer was much simpler than that? You know every day we all live our lives the way we wish, we make our own decisions, we create our own opinions and preferences, why, because we want to. We judge one another for our differences, way of living, etc. too. We want to blame something or someone for a massive problem, why, because well we see what we deem is the problem in front of us, and we always have to point it out. However, humanity has failed for many, many, many years to realize one thing, the problem has always been with yourself, much like anyone else. You see the question isn't so much "who is worse than one another?" or "who here is in the wrong?" though sure these are valid questions, but the biggest question you should be asking is "am I wrong?" Religions, government, groups, etc. in majority of cases are indeed man made, deviations of what people believe based on their own preferences or opinions, even those who claim to not believe in something and follow up with a label for themselves have fallen into the same trap, regardless of realizing it or not. Nobody here actually actively seeks the real hardcore truth in its bluntest form, and that's for two reasons.
1. People fear what they don't understand. People have killed, destroyed, ignored, and or have hidden away potential possibilities of something that could potentially be above their current comprehension, or in the case of science, their pay grade. It's better to believe what you want to believe because that's what makes the most sense to you, even if by chance you may have the wrong idea of what the real truth actually is.
2. People do not like admitting when they are potentially wrong, regardless of who you are, we have all had at least one case of this in our lives. We prefer to blame others for being wrong when realistically we are all wrong in one way shape or form, even if someone figured out the truth, as human beings we push our own concepts towards one another, instead of being constructive with it and helping people go down the right path.
What is truth really? Well, in concept, it's something that's 100% accurate, can't be argued with, set in stone, etc. Man however doesn't operate like this as much as plenty have claimed to, you operate based on your own preferences, beliefs, etc, fabricating what you believe to be the truth, in which case, that's not really truth now is it, but more like a lie of what you think is the truth. So can we point fingers at who's wrong, who is more extreme than one another, when we as a collective, yourself included, do much of the same thing you blame the other person(s) for doing, just in a different way? The game remains the same, the only difference is the players and how each of them plays, but the end always is the same for all when you look at the bigger picture. Quite clearly how we do things isn't working in life, but we refuse to admit that and continue about blaming one side, when all sides, regardless of what you believe in, is just as wrong, why, because absolutely nobody actively seeks the real truth, understands that maybe we are all wrong in some if not all ways, and attempts to live life by the truth to the best of our ability, what a real example would do.
It's so much easier and fun to over complicate what we already know the problem is, and never actually improving ourselves as a whole, than it is to just deal with the fact you are guilty, and just understanding that your preferences and opinions may not be a great compass to go by where the truth is concerned. It's not to say you shouldn't have them, but one must never stray away from the truth so much, otherwise we end up where we are today, as a whole. Confused, lost, sad, hurt, and feeling pointless, aimless, no sense of direction. We made a huge mistake, when will we stop blaming and start admitting we were wrong, and cleaning our own mess up, starting with yourself? Nobody is perfect, that's not expected, but if we are equally capable of messing up this hard, then we clearly are capable of doing the right thing for ourselves and for others.
The real truth is everyone is wrong, some just aren't as critically damaging as others.