Three main types of intellectuals

I think all the intellectual activies can be classified into three categories:

1- Most basic or the lowest type of intellectual activity is to find more and more reasons for why we or one should hate others. Majority of "intellectuals" who are less educated or even more educated but basically ignorants, out of many religions, and from all over the world do undertake to perform this type of intellectual activity. There are many net forums where many ignorant Muslims are busy in promoting secterian based hatred for other Muslims. And Muslims, as a whole, do consider all other religions as inferior to their own religion. But this thing is not unique for Muslims. So called "enlightened" but basically ignorant people from all over the globe are also doing same with Muslims. They are finding more and more historical or scriptural proofs in order to show that Islam is a violent religion and so should be hated and not be given respect. This is a basic form of intellectual activity. Majority people shall continue to enjoy it, just because they are unable to do anything better.

2- An advanced form or a balanced type of intellectual activity is to try to find reasons for why we or one should not hate others on useless grounds. This type of intellectuals are real enlightened people. They try to figure out the exact reasons of group and cultural differences of human societies. They do not judge other cultures on the basis of value system of their own culture. Instead, they try to understand the value systems of those other cultures. They accept the reality that there is diversity in different cultures of world. For them, diversity becomes the source of learning rather than becoming issue of contention.

3- The ultimate form of intellectual activity is to try to uncover the hidden or unknown realities about selfe, humanity, life, universe and even about God.