Fundamentalist extremists

[Neroon]

But doubt is scary isn't it?

I think you have a false foundation here.  I think you are assuming that people value safety from extremists more than the intellectual certainty of certainty and I doubt very much that they do.  In the end, this is a big scary universe and people need that sense of certainty, that sense of belonging.

By encouraging doubt, the result is that while people might well throw aside a certainty that might lead them to embrace one form of extremism, they do so only to embrace another certainty, which leads to an entirely different fanaticism. 

I don't t know though.  Perhaps doubt, is an answer, but only if it's not taken to extremes.

[Oniya]

Militant agnostic:  I don't know, and neither do you!

(pulled from my large collection of nancybuttons.)

[Neroon]

Indeed, I epitomise the extreme centre.