Question

a person who holds extreme views in political or religious matters
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Answer 1

Extremism is essentially a political term which determines the activities that ... xenophobia, interethnic and inter- religious hatred, left- or right-wing political radical.

Answer 2

Answer:

Extremism is "the quality or state of being extreme" or "the advocacy of extreme measures or views".

The term is primarily used in a political or religious sense, to refer to an ideology that is considered (by the speaker or by some implied shared social consensus) to be far outside the mainstream attitudes of society. It can also be used in an economic context. The term is usually meant to be pejorative. However, it may also be used in a more academic, purely descriptive, non-condemning sense.