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24th Annual Conference of
The European Health Psychology Society


1st- 4th September 2010, Cluj-Napoca , Romania


Dear Colleagues,
The European Health Psychology Society invites you to participate in the 24th Annual Conference to be held in Cluj-Napoca , Romania , 1-4 September 2010. The conference provides the opportunity to present research findings and to share working experience with colleagues from countries all around the world, to strengthen current networks and build new ones. Your participation and scientific contribution can broaden and deepen our understanding of global health in light of the conference theme, Health in Context.



Cluj, the treasure city of Transylvania, which from the Middle Ages onward has been a multicultural city characterized by diversity and intellectual effervescence, offers the perfect setting for the 2010 Annual Conference of the European Health Psychology Society.



We look forward to seeing you in Cluj,

Adriana Baban

Conference President



Scientific Programme

The 24th Conference of The European Health Psychology features a variety of formats including: Keynote lectures, Symposia, Oral and Poster sessions; Round-tables/ Panel discussion; Pre-conference workshops; Synergy and Create workshops.



Keynote Speakers

Prof. Michelle Fine (City University of New York , New York , USA )

Prof. Michael Murray (Keele University, Keele, UK)

Prof. Mircea Miclea (Babes-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca, Romania)

Prof. Suzanne Segerstrom ( University of Kentucky , Lexington , USA )



Important Dates

February 15th 2010 – Deadline for abstract submissions

April 15th 2010 – Abstract acceptance notification

May 15th 2010 – Deadline for early registration and hotel accommodation

June 15th 2010 – Deadline for Synergy and Create application/ registration



Website: http://www.ehps- cluj2010. psychology. ro/

Email: contact_ehps@ psychology. ro



Local organizers

Babes-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca & Romanian Association of Health Psychology



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Irina L. G. Todorova
President, European Health Psychology Society

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The 24th Annual Conference “Health in Context”
1st- 4th September 2010, Cluj-Napoca, Romania


The European Health Psychology Society (EHPS) would like to invite abstracts and symposia proposals to be submitted by February 15th 2010.

With less than one month to go until the abstract submission deadline, NOW is the time to submit your abstract in order to be considered to present at the EHPS conference 2010.

All accepted abstracts will be published in a special issue of the of the international journal Health Psychology Review.

All abstract submissions will be online at: http://www.ehps- cluj2010. psychology.ro/

If you have inquiries not addressed by the information on the website, please direct your messages to: contact_ehps@ psychology. ro

Submit your abstract before the deadline: February 15th 2010.


Conference Organizers

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Dear Colleagues,

We would like to inform you that we organize training in Interpersonal Psychotherapy (IPT). The training is Certified by the Institute for Interpersonal Psychotherapy – USA and recommended by the International Society of Interpersonal Psychotherapists (ISIPT).


The training will take place 11th & 12th November 2010 in Athens, Greece, as it is described in the attached document.

For more information visit the web-page www.ipse.gr or call at 0030-210 6742889.

The trainer, Professor Scott Stuart is Psychiatrist, Professor of Psychiatry and Psychology in the Department of Psychiatry of the University of Iowa, USA, President and Co-Founder of the International Association of Interpersonal Psychotherapists.

Participants will be awarded internationally recognized Certificate of Training in Interpersonal Psychotherapy.

Yours sincerely
Malama Anastasia
Scientific Director of Institute for Psychological Applications (ΙΨΕ)

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INSTITUTE FOR PSYCHOLOGICAL APPLICATIONS
Λεωφόρος Μεσογείων 233, Νέο Ψυχικό, 154 51
233, Mesogeion Avenue, Neo Psichiko, 154 51
τηλ/tel: (0030) 210 6742 889
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web-page: www.ipse.gr

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Dear Colleagues,


The EFPA Standing Committee on Ethics hereby invites you to the 4th Symposium on Professional Ethics to be held on October 1-3, 2010 in Prague, Czech Republic.

Place :

The symposium is hosted by the Czech Moravian Psychological Society in cooperation with the Union of Psychological Associations – Czech Republic and will take place at the Academy of Sciences, Narodni 3, Prague.

Goal:

Goal of the SC Ethics Symposia in Prague is to network psychologists interested in ethics and to disseminate knowledge and experience on handling ethical issues in science and professional practice.


Topic of 4th Symposium:

Teaching professional ethics and training in ethical problem solving


Format:

Participants will be encouraged to share their experiences and challenges on the topic. Group discussions will be arranged as well as plenary discussions and summaries.

All EFPA member associations are invited to be represented by one or two members and encourage participation. The symposium will be of interest to colleagues who are active in teaching or training on ethical issues, ethical boards or similar committees. In agreement of your Association, colleagues from universities and other relevant institutions are also welcomed to participate.

Attendance:

There will be a limit of participants. New deadline : September 12, 2010

Registrations are requested to be sent to Jindriska Kotrlova at cmps@ecn.cz by stating name, email address and association.

A short note about your field of activity and any specific involvement with ethical issues is welcomed.


Registration fee:

A fee of ? 75 will be charged

(payment: cash at the reception on Friday 1 October or at

account holder CMPS, IBAN CZ64 0300 0000 0001 0575 8715, BIC (SWIFT) CEKOCZPP ; Bank : CSOB, a.s. – PS, Roztylskà 1, 225 95 Praha 025, Czech Republic) .



Accommodation:

Information on reservation and hotels

http://cmps.ecn.cz/dl/4-symp-SCE-hotels.pdf
http://cmps.ecn.cz/dl/4-symp-SCE-AccFormCBT.doc



Schedule:
Friday October 1, 2010 : 18.00 – 20.00 Welcome Reception

Saturday October 2, 2010 : 9.30 – 17.00 Symposium

Sunday October 3, 2010 : 9.30 – 12.30 Symposium – conclusions and future actions


Presentations by members of the SCE :

Overview :

Pierre Nederlandt (Belgium) : Summary of the “Recommendations for teaching ethics for psychologists” adopted in Rome 1999

Haldor Ovreeide (Norway) : Some basic ideas and concepts for teaching ethics

Catherine Wieder (France) : Teaching ethics for research in Master Degree and PhD level at University

Henk Geertsema (Netherlands) : Teaching ethics to healthcare psychologists


Facts and problems about teaching ethics :

Yesim Korkut (Turkey) : How to overcome the difficulties in training and teaching ethics?

Victor Claudio (Portugal) : Key issues in the teaching of ethics directed to psychologists and students

Wolf Dietrich Zuzan (Austria) : How professional ethics is imparted in Austria



As mentioned, participants are encouraged to share their experiences.


Information about the EFPA Standing Committee on Ethics and EFPA documents on ethics can be found on the EFPA website: www.efpa.eu .


For more information, please turn to :


Pierre Nederlandt, Convenor of EFPA Standing Committee on Ethics (SCE) p.nederlandt@skynet.be

Jindriska Kotrlova of the Czech Moravian Psychological Society cmps@ecn.cz

Haldor Øvreeide of organizing group : mail: haldor@ifru.no


Looking forward to seeing you in Prague,

Best regards,

Pierre Nederlandt

Convenor of the SC ethics

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Head Office EFPA

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European Federation of Psychologists Associations

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Phone : +32 (0)2 5034953

Fax : +32 (0)2 5033067

email : headoffice@efpa.eu

www.efpa.eu

www.europeanpsychologist.eu

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Second Call for Papers
24th Annual Conference of the German Peace Psychology Association
"Social Injustice and Conflict"
June 17-18, 2011
Department of Psychology, University of Marburg (Germany)

Understanding and changing the underlying mechanisms of social injustice and their relationship to social conflicts are core issues in Peace Psychology. Terrorism, warfare, normative and non-normative collective action, as well as other forms of intergroup conflict urge researchers to consider social injustice as a highly important factor. The aim of the conference is to bring together scholars from all fields relevant to Peace Psychology to discuss their current research on the antecedents, perceptions, and outcomes of social injustice for the various forms of contemporary conflicts.

Keynote Speaker: Fathali Moghaddam (Washington D.C.)

We invite submissions of empirical and theoretical papers from all fields of psychology, sociology, political science and other social sciences, which contribute to the field of social injustice and conflict. We also welcome submissions on other topics relevant to Peace Psychology. The conference language is English. In exceptional cases, it is also possible to submit presentations in German. Each presentation will be awarded 45 minutes, including questions and discussion. Submitted papers will be screened with regard to their general appropriateness and grouped with related papers into thematic sessions.
Please submit your abstract (250 words) to peacepsychology@staff.uni-marburg.de. Please indicate a title of your presentation, names and affiliation of all authors, and an address of the presenting author. We will confirm your registration electronically. A small participation fee will be charged.

The deadline for submissions of proposals is April 1, 2011.

Further information about the conference is available at:
http://www.uni-marburg.de/fb04/team-wagner/FFP2011

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Dear Sir or Madam,


Science and Education Foundation and its partners kindly invite you to take part

in the 2nd International Conference EDUCATION, RESEARCH & DEVELOPMENT, which will be held on 9 - 12 September.
We enclose a link for downloading the symposium program:

http://science-journals.eu/edu/program-erd-2.pdf

If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to contact us at: eMail: erd@sciencebg.net


With kind regards,
Ivan Genov,
Manager, Science and Education Foundation
BPS

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CALL FOR ABSTRACTS


International Psychological Applications Conference and Trends 2013
26 to 28 of April 2013 – Madrid, Spain
http://www.inpact-psychologyconference.org


= Important Dates =
Abstract submissions: 31 of October, 2012
Authors' notifications: 26 of November, 2012
Registration: until 7 of January, 2013


= Conference Goals =
The goal for this conference is to offer a new approach to the discussion and presentation of the psychological science nowadays. We expect to engage and interact with authors and researchers from various countries, cultures and fields in the area. We provide the answer to expose new quality developments in research and theoretical findings in Applied Psychology. Some main areas are chosen and divided in more detailed sub-themes (see below), not omitting other topics regarding groundbreaking contributions that might benefit attendees at the conference.


= InPACT format =
The conference will cover many types of presentation formats, incorporating Invited Keynote Speakers, oral and thematic showcases. Among the conference materials, given to all registered attendees, a CD-ROM will be provided with the Proceedings delivered at the conference.
A book with selected papers from the conference will be published. Publication opportunities will also be available from selected international journals.


= Themes of Interest =
To develop the conference program we have chosen five main broad-ranging categories in Applied Psychology, which also covers different interest areas:
- In CLINICAL PSYCHOLOGY: Emotions and related psychological processes; Assessment; Psychotherapy and counseling; Addictive behaviors; Eating disorders; Personality disorders; Quality of life and mental health; Communication within relationships; Services of mental health; and Psychopathology.

- In EDUCATIONAL PSYCHOLOGY: Language and cognitive processes; School environment and childhood disorders; Parenting and parenting related processes; Learning and technology; Psychology in schools; Intelligence and creativity; Motivation in classroom; Perspectives on teaching; Assessment and evaluation; and Individual differences in learning.

- In SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY: Cross-cultural dimensions of mental disorders; Employment issues and training; Organizational psychology; Psychology in politics and international issues; Social factors in adolescence and its development; Social anxiety and self-esteem; Immigration and social policy; Self-efficacy and identity development; Parenting and social support; and Addiction and stigmatization.

- In LEGAL PSYCHOLOGY: Violence and trauma; Mass-media and aggression; Intra-familial violence; Juvenile delinquency; Aggressive behavior in childhood; Internet offending; Working with crime perpetrators; Forensic psychology; Violent risk assessment; and Law enforcement and stress.

- In COGNITIVE AND EXPERIMENTAL PSYCHOLOGY: Perception, memory and attention; Decision making and problem-solving; Concept formation, reasoning and judgment; Language processing; Learning skills and education; Cognitive Neuroscience; Computer analogies and information processing (Artificial Intelligence and computer simulations); Social and cultural factors in the cognitive approach; Experimental methods, research and statistics; and Biopsychology.


= Types of Contributions =
All submissions are subjected to a blind-review refereeing process and are divided in these categories:
- Oral Presentations
- Posters
- Symposium sessions
- Roundtable/debate sessions
- Workshops
- Virtual presentations
Corporates can also showcase their products or services in the conference exhibitions area by contacting the secretariat or publicity email (provided below).


= Conference Date and Location=
InPACT 2013 will be held in Madrid, Spain, in a venue yet to be assigned, and will occur from 26 to 28 of May 2012.


= Contacts =
Conference email: secretariat@inpact-psychologyconference.org
Publicity email: publicity@inpact-psychologyconference.org

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"Islamic State" or realization of Islamic extremist totality as an ideology, totalitarian movements and Islamic extremist totalitarian and territorial reality


Author: colonel Roumian Roussev


Islamic extremism in itself is enough deployed and completed ideology. As shocking as it may sound, the facts can be ignored hardily with success. For the first time in modern history appeared, a new territorial formation calling itself "Islamic state" whose ideology is Islamic extremism. Hardly here is the place for emphasis on chronological retrospection of the facts of the creation of preconditions for the emergence of "Islamic State". I think that for the philosophy of the research is important to try to trace how the realities in the societies allowed the ideology of Islamic extremist totality to pass through the stages of conversion as extremist Islamic totalitarian movements and managed to organize itself and take territorial space from several countries realizing the project "Islamic State".
Extremist Islamic idea as a more or less conceptual idea in the modern world, claims many things, but also dating , conditions for martyrdom, absolute rightness, unlimited aggression , totality of funds and popularity of leaders. If sufficiently it can be assumed it is true that modern Islamic extremist idea emerged as a prototype of conceptualization in Egyptian prisons, the modern history of Islamic extremism has its even conditional start time. Later the realization of this conceptualization went through the stages of the formation and implementation of Islamic extremist movements such as "Muslim brothers" and others like it, as well organized and spread around the world extremist and most of them terrorist organizations. With biggest notoriety among them is the "Al Qaeda". Was subsequently achieved the realization of Islamic extremist totalitarian model of state structure in the territories that were conquered by the "Islamic state."
This rapid growth from the emergence of the idea to the decisive experience for its realization went violently and quickly showed real potential - facts that reinforce anxiety, but also need of understanding the processes and of course immediate interventions . It is undisputed that these stages are related to objective facts that can be summarized factually and chronologically on four levels.
Islamic extremism is capable of creating leaders who are needed to its intentions : possessing mind, bigotry, cruelty, brutality, organization, consistency, clinical total dependence and more and more. Anyone who takes the road of combating Islamic extremism need to know in advance that will be faced with such a person and be ready for it . We will stand against force and determination and with something more than these we can succeed.
Islamic extremist leaders as a rule were not and are not only ideologues and leaders of people like them . Тhey also were strategists, tacticians and commanders of armies of Islamic extremism and terrorism, direct organizers and leaders of terrorist attacks around the world. I think this is the reason for the amazing speed with which they are forgotten and the incredible ease with which they are replaced by other, "In war as in war" say not only French. And this finding is not accidental, but is referred to as analogous to the realities in any other extreme and totalitarian organization and movement with total characteristics. One of the total characteristics implying total reaction against different is fanaticism .
Fanaticism in Islamic extremism as opposed to all forms of idealism is a powerful, comprehensive, vivid and rapidly disintegrating. This would sound like shamanic anathema, if the study of Islamic extremist fanaticism didn't reach to its roots and foundation. I think there is reason assertion / derived and justified in another monograph by the author / that extremist fanaticism is not a matter of belief, but of psychological attitudes and justified by fundamentals as the total dependence , fetishism of the leader , the fiction uf exclusivity , consequences of violence , experienced at a young age, self-identification only set among fellows, uncontrollable, usually concealed aggression etc. This fanaticism collapses like cardboard tower of colored cards when the group leader abandons his fanatical followers or crush their claims expressed as belief. But while Islamic extremism is united, organized and gives arguments for faith in the power that it has for its fanatical supporters, former and foreign experience and all arguments have no value : "... as though identification with the movement and the total conformity crush even the person's ability to sense extreme conditions ...".
The big problem created by the realization of the pattern of Islamic extremist totalitarian state is support in specific human resource. "Islamic State" is different from "Al Qaeda", hundreds of similar and even "Hezbollah". It's different with the characters of people who gather under its banners, because its supporters and fighters are not class or stratum of society, but a specific entity known in political science with the word "crowd". "Islamic State" is not just something different from other extremist and terrorist organizations known today, but it is something more than itself because its content is not limited to the conquered territories and even with its propagandic geostrategema called "Caliphate" . One who knows the processes and the real nature of Islamic extremism ideology and the totality of the specific entity called today "Islamic State" , knows what it is. Under the banner of "Islamic state" in the initial stage of its occurrence met people who had lost their livelihoods , demobilized soldiers from the army of Saddam Hussein and Iraqi repressive agencies of the regime, the unemployed and low-literate children of war in Iraq and other countries, men experienced childhood in refugee camps, also radicals from Islamic and secular universities, mercenaries from Afghanistan, Pakistan, Middle East, Chechnya and Dagestan, people from the former Soviet Union, the Balkans, Islamic Asia and Oceania, Europe and America. Тhey all are fascinated by extremist leaders who use their position of Islamic preachers, primordial fascination of the character "Islamic cleric".
Some of them were representatives of the conditional and amorphous group that we call "new Muslims", and today this component becomes larger, mainly in countries outside the zone of direct conflict. As we do not want to concede , those who first tried to organize resistance to the Islamic extremist organization "Islamic State" were not developed countries of Europe, America and Asia, nor Christianity, Judaism or Buddhism but representatives of Islam. Who better than Muslims can feel and understand quickly the risk of cancer growth Islamic extremism masked by rhetorical phraseology of their religion.
Underestimation of the problem "Islamic State", the dominance of processes and events of a different nature in the world, inertia and little information predetermined promotion of misconceptions and lack of recognition still of the exclusive role played by Islam in the reduction of the "Islamic State". Even in our media , fighters who give one of the most active resistance to the armies of the "Islamic State" are called "Kurds" and we miss more important thing - they are Shia Muslims. This reality, which was yesterday something distant, and today is already in Bulgaria, as in other European countries, raises questions of principle and of specific nature .
Тhe success of the unrecognized reality is a fact. The fact is that the idea of "Islamic State" is already here.

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Islamic extremist totality of “Islamic state” as a
catalyst
Author: colonel Roumian Roussev

The extremist Islamic concept of the world by its totality is absolutely different and conflict with any other concept, including the Islamic one. In other words, it is relevant to all the rest in the opposite aspect: not as tolerance, but as excepting, not as any admission, but as absolute negation, not as contradiction, but as super conflict, not as an opportunity for development, but as an end. In this regard, the Islamic extremism with its most outstanding characteristics, essential features and parameters has won an unusual position in the society by placing itself outside everything. Thereby, by this logic, the Islamic extremist totality on its own reproduced its negations, not only catalyzed opposition, but to a large extent, constituted a reverse attitude towards itself, and created an open system of unifying all against itself. It is another question if this is accomplished or not, but more important is that this uncompromising extremist totality catalyzes conditions for unions, which were impossible not long ago. And there is not only the question for consolidation of efforts by structures standing, but mainly by personalities. People understand that to be themselves they must be able to be in a definite respect above and outside any individualization, in the meaning of ability for maintaining a system for correlation, which inevitably positions them. Indisputably this process of positioning also occurs towards the Islamic extremism. Processes of extending of “The Islamic country” can not be explained only by money, although they are an exceptional factor together with the other conditions, but eventually winners will become these systems, which gather more resources, motives, arguments for cohesion and resolution. Positioning itself is grouping in a mobile system and this is already a triumph of hope and success in the counteraction against totality. Personality and understanding of itself are identical in their changes. And we see these changes not only in ourselves. Levinas has said it very precisely: “Man is the measure of all things, he is measured by nothing, comparing all things but incomparable – he confirms himself in the world of sensation”. Contemplating over the problem “The Islamic extremist totality as a catalyst”, we inevitably reach the space of the complex human motivation. Neurophysiological concept of the complex human motivation as two large systems, “inclination” – one with innovative and another with destructive load, provide the feeling of motivation to a rate for practicing methods for measuring and assessment and finally getting answers about things, which stem from us. Undoubtedly, such kind of approach is real and useful, it explains in detail how stimulating the first system causes feelings of satisfaction, high spirits, love, etc. Activating the other one engenders a sense of anxiety, horror, complex depressed feelings, etc. As a result, we have desires for creating innovative aspirations or destructions. During the flow of the positive processes, socializing, we learn to avoid the unpleasant stimulus, conditions, for instance, but also to strive for creating prerequisites for limiting and minimizing contingent problems in the future. This is the mechanism of the processes, occurring inside the personality, which predetermine reactions against the manifestations of the Islamic extremist totality. But this is not all in the both directions. It is obvious this way we will not find an answer of some questions, which crop up during the analysis of the Islamic extremism and many other questions, concerning its manifestation as a catalyst of processes, reproducing and denying it. But it seems to me that it is a good starting position, if we go ahead. I think a brief explanation is necessary about the arguments, which have given grounds for the previous sentence. There are explicit evidences that considerable percent of the carriers of the Islamic extremist concept of the world, who directly were committed to performing terrorist actions, feel exceptional satisfaction by the preparation and, first of all, by the harm being done, and this puts them into high spirits, deep, although pathological satisfaction, absolute violation of the most delicate moral limits – reaction and behavior, typical for investigated maniac murderers, for instance. Clinical classic for this type of personality is to sink into a depressive state and seek of reaching satisfaction by new similar actions after the euphoria. The examples in this respect are general in the recent past, as well as in the daily life. Remember the stories, reproducing the reaction of Osama bin Laden after each of the messages about the terrorist attacks of September 11th, the behaviour of the executioners from the numerous “executions” of hostages in Iraq, Afghanistan, Syria, Nigeria, and more places, but also of others with Islamic extremist consciousness, who did not take part directly in the murders, but felt strong enthusiasm about them, like the moderator of gathering of children from the territories, controlled by “Islamic state”, with the show of the mass execution of 250 undressed Syrian soldiers. Not only reading through the ordinary observer of death totality of the others, the different, the aliens, is the final point of excitement of the sick consciousness, but also a prelude to the emotional crash of the extremist person, dependent on the very totality. A state, typical for the anteroom of the new degree in the spiral of destruction. This is only the one side of this reading through – to a point of view of clinical psychology. From the perspective of theology, of the very Islam as a kind of theory and specific practice for expressing conceptions and divine service, Islamic extremist theory and terrorist practice categorically not only separate, but they absolutely distance themselves from the religion`s foundation and its conceptual essence.
The Islamic extremist totality with its imperative excess started forming new levels of attitude towards itself. Although difficultly, in the society as a system raised and are gathering speed and area, impulses, aspiration and efforts for delivering from the totality of Islamic extremist presence, although by limiting, at this stage of maturity. However, everything in this world is a question of measure. It even positions distinguishing line between such facts as the civilization achievements and the extremism. Spontaneity of the Islamic extremism is a state, which as a personal peculiarity and characteristic is less connected with the estimation of consequences. For all the rest, to who it is not just ideology and psychological adjustment, but an instrument for reaching aims and a base for organization, it should be different. Radical adjustments have always provoked radical answers. And there is a historical lesson - it happened little before the middle of the last century. But the Islamic extremist totality even in its present interpretation as the reality “Islamic state” is a catalyst for its own internal alteration. Essentially or just as pragmatic policy, alterations in its behavior will occur and will be coming more and more. As a matter of fact, this appears to be the perspective of the new formation, called today “Islamic state”. It is obvious to everybody that if its extremist essence does not decrease to a civilization and acceptable behavior and policy, the international fight against it is forthcoming and the results of it are predictable. Whatever criticism is thought against the state reaction in Bulgaria, Germany and other civilized countries, by its essence and content, it is a clear message for irreconcilability and solidity. These actions will not make a hero from anybody, as some people claim, because apologetics of extremism, including the Islamic one, are locked inside the narrow frame of the medical clinic. To normal people extremism and its carriers can not be models for creating heroes.