Ideology of Peace
A JOURNEY TOWARDS PEACE
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Modern terrorism is thus a great and ongoing
menace to our civilized world. Some powers of the
world are engaged in crushing it militarily, but
military action alone will not suffice to eliminate
this phenomenon.
The reason for this is that present-day terrorism is
actually militancy supported by an ideology. So it is
not simply an issue of gun-versus-gun. It is, in fact,
an issue of gun-versus-ideology. A bomb can be
countered with a bomb. But an ideology cannot be
countered with a bomb. For this we require an
ideology of peace. So we have to formulate such an
ideology as will banish the notion that there can be
anything acceptable about terrorism. This would
call for total mental re-conditioning of the terrorists.
That is, we have to rid the minds of the militants of
the ideology which is activating them. This, in
effect, would be like defusing a bomb. With this
very purpose in mind. I have published three
books, called The True Jihad, Islam and Peace and
The Ideology of Peace, which aim at persuading
Muslim extremists to accept more peaceful
solutions. After our successful experience of nuclear
disarmament, we must now proceed to open a front
