Presenting the Ideology of Peace

Presenting the Ideology of Peace In my talk, I touched on different issues. First, I clarified that the military action that some Western countries were engaged in against terrorism would not cause terrorism to cease. Modern terrorism is not an issue of gun vs gun. Instead, it is an issue of gun vs ideology. Terrorism cannot be ended simply through violence; the fact is that those who have taken to terrorism have developed an ideology that seeks sanction for their terrorism, that is, justified terrorism, and in which they have firm faith, so much so that they even consider suicide-bombing to be martyrdom. They believe that if they are killed fighting, they will go straight to Paradise. Even if all the atomic weapons were eliminated, it would not cause terrorism to end. This is because terrorism is in mind. I explained that along with the present nuclear disarmament program, there was a need to launch an ideological campaign to replace militant thinking with peaceful thinking. We need to re-engineer the minds of militants on peaceful lines by replacing the ideology of violence with the ideology of peace. This session was probably the most important one during this entire trip. Present on occasion was an eminent person who lives in Los Angeles. I was told that he had a direct connection with the U.S.