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The Age of Peace

The terrorist phenomenon is based on misinterpretation of
the scriptures. It can be eradicated only by a right interpretation
of the text being universally publicized.

In a speech on July 19, 2015, the British Prime Minister
David Cameron expressing his anxiety about youngsters
travelling to Iraq and Syria to join the Islamic State of Iraq and
the Levant (ISIL), said,
‘We must de-glamourise the extremist cause, especially
ISIL. This isn’t a pioneering movement – it is vicious, brutal,
fundamentally abhorrent.’
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It is true that present Muslim extremism is the result of the
glamourization of the self-styled concept of global Khilafat or
caliphate. Its real solution lies in de-glamourizing this false
ideology developed by extremists through a misinterpretation
of Islamic sources. Moreover, de-glamourization of the Khilafat
can be achieved by de-Islamizing this concept of the Khilafat
based on false interpretation.
One of the aims of this book is to offer valid arguments
to show that the concept of political Islam has no basis in
Islam. It has to be conceded that the present concept of the
false Khilafat is based on a political interpretation of Islam.
This book demolishes the current false ideology of the Khilafat.
The UN has rightly adopted this dictum:
‘Since wars begin in the minds of men, it is in the minds
of men that the defences of peace must be constructed.’
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If we want to eradicate terrorism, we shall have to reengineer
the minds of terrorists along peaceful lines. No other method
will be of any avail.

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