Moral Panic: Radical Panic And Moral Panic
Moral panic has direct influence on how society defines its reality, including a heavy influence on the language of a society. The radicalization panic evolved from the War on Terror and the moral panic that followed terrorist attacks. The radicalization panic is damaging our language by the new use of “radical” and “extreme” and the terms derived from them. Before the War on Terror, radicalization was the process of becoming radical, something could happen to anyone whatever their initial political allegiance or religious affiliation. Radicalisation is now associated with Islam. This is because societal leaders who use the words “extreme” and “radical” rarely bother to define the terms. In most cases, a definition is not needed because the