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the name of Islam. The distortions in the thinking of members
of these organisations need to be explicitly stated. All leaders
of opinion and politicians must emphatically state that in the
Qur'an, it is explicitly stated that Muslims must invite people to
the moral values of Islam simply with gentle words, not using

force and compulsion. These people can be summoned to
the true path only by telling them of the freedom of belief
found in Islamic moral values.

All Muslims, Shiite or Sunni, must be told that violence is no way
to seek their rights and that it is a flagrant violation of Islamic
moral values. People need to be told that Islamic moral val-
ues cannot be espoused through acts of terror, that such acts
will simply add to the numbers of the enemies of Islam and
that they will invariably inflict even worse harm on Muslims.

Classes aimed at undermining the intellectual infrastructure of
terror organisations need to be provided for students in

schools; books and articles must be studied, and conferences
and academic seminars must be held. That is the only way
terrorism can be eradicated from the world. This method can
dry up the swamp in which terror breeds.

Today there are radical organisations and their extensions
operating in a wide range of territory from Central Asia to the
Caucasus, from Africa to the Balkans, and from inside Europe
to the U.S.

The only reason why radicalism is able to gather supporters

from such different cultures and geographies is the educa-
tion, instruction and propaganda techniques they implement
on people who are mostly ignorant of religion and who
approach matters emotionally, rather than with their intellect.
The internet and social media are the global communication