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The Campaign And Its Mechanism Within Confronting Extremism

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Findings
The campaign was conducted on more than 3,500 electronic dialogues with the people who visited the forum. Fifty percent of visitors are from Gulf Cooperation Council state, thirty percent of Arab nationalities, and twenty percent from Europe and America. The results indicated that 40% of holders of deviant thought left their deviant ideas; sixty percent of holders of deviant thought left the most serious terrorist ideas during the past seven years. After scrutinizing more than 3.500-documented dialogue across the Web, with visitors from 107 countries around the world, we can say that the result is a strong indicator of the success of the campaign at local and global level. This is according to the evidence from the expert of policy and law at Harvard University Dr. Stern reviewed in his article "Sakinah Campaign and its mechanism in confronting extremism." As well, a report submitted to the Congress praised the efforts of the Kingdom in the fighting extremist thought, and the experience of Sakinah Campaign as a model for treatment and intellectual confrontation (Al-Bader, 2006).
Recommendations
There are some suggestions that may be useful in combating and reducing terrorism, along with Sakinah Campaign.
The family is the starting point. No one disagrees on the importance of family’s role in treating behavioral and intellectual deviations in the community, especially those threatening children. Family, with other elements and pillars, constitute community’s

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