what should we do to free our planet from terrorism?

Question

Human society, from origin until now, has always been at war within and between groups and has led to two World Wars. Presently, terrorism and low intensity warfare are affecting many parts if the world.

As the current global population of 6 billion increases to 8 billion by 2025, national and international conflicts will continue to be a source of concern for humanity. When evil minds combine, good minds have to work together and combat.
It is a privilege to be on Yahoo. I am here to offer my answer to the question raised by the President of India on Terrorism.

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The answer to this is straight. Address the minds. . Before the terrorists fire weapons, terrorism is already in their minds. If we have to work for prevention we will need to address the minds first. Because violence first grows in the minds, just as peace does.





Education.
The best and most certain way to change behavior or belief of any kind is not force or threat, but education.
If you can logically explain to someone why something is wrong, counter-productive, ill advised or makes them look stupid, they will cease the behavior.
If you simply tell them that their actions/beliefs will cause them discomfort, cause anger from others or is wrong according to your beliefs, they will probably continue to follow their inner guidance, undetered by you.
The only consistantly effective way to change their inner guidance is through education
Well sir, this is a complicated question with endless answers. There is no right answer and, with that said, there is absolute wrong answer. Every culture, ethnicity, nation and organization is going to have different approaches with varying motives. With that fact present, the only answer is for everyone to listen and be tolerant. If the world plays the "me vs. you" attitude like it has for centuries, terrorism will only fuel itself, rather than extinguish itself. Only a fool would think that bombing a country, and destroying an infrastructure will magically eliminate a system of beliefs deep within the roots of people's minds.


War is mankind's most ignoble, wasteful pursuit. It waste physical and emotional resources and worst of all time itself. Until we learn to fully appreciate and tolerate one another as individuals and equals no matter what our race, religion, philosophy or socioeconomic status the tender fabric of human lives will be rent asunder by the violence of war. The first step is to ameliorate physical suffering and fear for security that are endemic to many populations, then educate them about the rest of the world, convince everyone to stop brain washing young children and make certain that all humans have their needs met and at least some of their desires fulfilled. The irony is that if the resources spent on wars were not wasted then this could possibly even be accomplished. To completely fulfill this many privileged would need to recognize that they must share more and not be arrogant and adamant. I can only wish that this would happen so that there could be peace; perhaps one day some great person will devise a means to bring this about.


Sir,

I really believe that the real evil is not the terrorism. It is the media and everything they do to undermine efforts to combat terrorism, in the name of free speech.

Until we make the media accountable for their false reportings and reportings that undermine efforts, then terrorism will feed on the information given.

I believe in freedom of speech, I also believe that with that freedom comes great responsibility to report the truth or nothing at all if it inhibits any government from operating special operations. So with great freedom comes responsibility and accountability.







We need an international effort to help educate the world on a social level. Much of the fighting is based on fears that are unwarranted and could be resolved if both sides understood each other. Humanity instinctively fears what it does not know. Eliminate the ignorance, and you eliminate much of the intolerance. We need to present our cultures on a human level, instead of a generalization. It wouldn't be a cure all, and would probably be a large expense. But even saving one life from a death by ignorance would be priceless.

Let me first mention that it is an absolute honour getting to answer your question. Thank you for this timely put forward question of yours concerning one of the gravest issues mankind has ever faced i.e. terrorism.

Coming to your question, I think this is the question you have asked yourself many a times while the execution of the prime convict of the terrorist attack on our parliament rested on a single nod or “nay” of yours. I know the decision isn’t entirely yours but, as publicized by media—your stand in Afzal’s case does matter.

Before I put forward my answer, I would like to analyze, from whatever I have seen, read and pondered over; the root-cause(s) of terrorism.

Terrorism has different facets, different levels of severity and different circumstantial causes. But in my view, it has common roots which start growing with mistrust, grow to the limits of distrust and end up bringing the involved communities/ individuals into disrepute.

Two communities which have different interests (take any two fast developing countries for example) have a certain air of competition and mistrust between each other. A few occurrences of miscommunication, lack of communication or vile acts of a few people who do not belong anywhere spark the feelings of enmity and complete loss of trust. This is where the targets i.e. both the opposing parties are “softening up” themselves for the heinous crimes of terrorism.

When we directly or indirectly segregate ourselves from others, we plant a negative thought in their minds. And the thought reads- “indifference.” Yes, we start off as being “indifferent” to each others’ woes. Actually, as humans, we are somehow destined to connect and be affected by each other. “Indifference” is tougher to achieve than to mention.

In an attempt to remain indifferent to your neighbour’s woes, you actually end up hating his success(es) which I believe is the first step in the direction of inhumanity and terror.

There is another way terrorism can branch out of its roots. The other way is called “insecurity”. Difference of interests among two communities which are both even on all grounds is not as dangerous a situation as is the difference between those two communities among which one is dominant over the other. The smaller and weaker community is weak in totality but the same cannot be said about the members of the weaker community. A human is never born weak. When they sense that the bigger tree is sucking away all the nutrition from the earth, they feel insecure (ironically, a trait of the meek) and resort to terrorism.

Sometimes, it is just the human within us that gets the best of us. The “mob mentality” it is! Most of the times the wrong-doers are a few but they are the loudest and hence the most apparent. We form “generalizations” (here comes another of the roots of terrorism i.e. quick generalizations) based on those few loud members of a community which leads to misinformation and hence, miscommunication.

Now, that I have made clear what I think is the cause of terrorism as a whole; let me put forward my humble answer to you. I hope you like it.

I have never been a big fan of the capital punishment per se. As I have already suggested that the roots of terror are very deep rooted—so much so, that if you completely shift your perspective to match that of a member of the community which is said to be churning out terrorists, you can somewhat justify your means. This is the reason you have to kill the cause and not the people. The easiest method to do it, the way I see it, is by the help of communication. What starts off with miscommunication can possibly be uprooted by communication.

To bring it down to Layman’s terms: When an Indian chats with a German, a French, an Afghan, an Iraqi or a Pakistani; they do not sound like they are any different from him. We all love good music, we all love our family and we all follow the same fundamental philosophies of life. There might be differences of interest superficially but, as humans we all just bleed red. This fact needs to be spread and shared with everyone and the only way to do it is communication and media. Movies have been a bridge between India and other countries for decades
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Promote Secularism through textbooks.
I am thankful to all those chapters in the textbooks I had growing up which had pictures and stories of a Hindu and a Muslim celebrating each other’s festivals with joy and goodwill. A tender mind in childhood can be moulded in any desired way. Let us sculpt a transparent mind with room for respect towards every human culture and religion and no room for envy and hatred. Let’s make communalism a no issueWorldwide Television and Radio.
How about this—all the nations of the world join hands with UN (or create an organization of their own) to put to air a few satellite Television and Radio channels which cover features, news, music, cultural sketches and special stories from all over the globe(?) Every nation gets an equal opportunity to display all the good things it has to offer and share with rest of the world. This would promote mutual understanding and perpetual dissolution of hostility or lack of respect towards each other. The beauty pageants, a few TV channels are doing just that. But, I think we need to do it more often, on a grander scale and with better communicability.

By better communicability I mean that the material should either be dubbed or be staged in local languages (with some added local flavour). I guess, there can be better ways to share cultures. This was the best I could think of. I’ll wait for the time when we will have more performers of “worldwide” fame and a better and bigger audience of every form of art. Terrorism will die screaming under all this.

3- A Fearless Stand.
As people, I think it is our responsibility to get our views registered. Getting noticed is not in our hands but raising voices is. When you think something wrong is going on, you have to do something about it. As a journalist, you have to let is be known to people; as a blogger, you have to blog about it, as a Newspaper reader, you have to e-mail the editor about it… some way or the other, we all have to stand firm and express our viewpoint. You have to learn this from the enemy. They are always fewer than us, but they get their violent thoughts known to the world. Why can’t we fight back with the same weapon?

Answer 1

SORRY,THIS WAS ALREADY ASKED BY A CELEB.

Answer 2

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Answer 3

The world needs a police force that is not affiliated with any government. This police force should be very small and very powerful.
When an act of terrorism is committed, this police force shall commit an act of terrorism against the terrorists that is ten times as awful as the first act.
That way, every person on earth knows that if they commit an act of terrorism, then a reciprocal terrorist action will be committed against his own people, or religion, or family, or country.
This sounds terrible, but we need to make the retaliation for terrorism far worse than the act itself. Then people will start blaming the terrorists instead of calling them martyrs.

Answer 4

Good morning i am jenim patel of ahmedabad city studing in zydus school.as we know that today terrorism has increased very much.With our increasing population it is very difficult to control terrorism.
By my point of view to stop terrorism we should first stop crimes in our country.we should use the policy"hand for hand and life for life".this means that one who stoles something you should cut his hand and if someone kill someone you should kill him .by starting this law there will be some difficulties and we would not like it but after some time there will be no crime and if we catch somebig thief who have already kill many lives you should hang him on the spot.this is how we can free our planet from terrorism.we could be united and fight against terrorism.we should also spread awareness about the bad effects of terrorisms.

Answer 5

1.Terrorist attacks have mainly erupted from the country IRAQ and IRAN ,because of major increase in the practise of racism ,so try all methods to put an end to such behaviour.
2.Setting up of many peace organisations will help in descent and good understanding among militants and the common man.
3.TO PUT A BIG EMPHASIS ON ANTI-TERRORISM AND COUNTER-TERRORISM, THE MASSES AND THE GOVERNMENT SHOULD BE INVOLVED(THAT IS HAND IN HAND).AS BOTH THE SIDES CAN VOICE THEIR OPINION AND
THUS CAN COME OUT WITH THE PERFECT RESOLUTION.
5.People should stop insulting or criticising the people because that is one of the biggest problems which led to rise of terrorism.
And people should start strongly developing the concept of oneness or ONE-WORLD.
6.People should start giving equal respect to all irresepective of caste and creed and colour(etc.).that is they ought to drop the idea of PROPAGANDA.

Answer 6

First of all the border should be tightened and there should be a awareness among people towards terroism.The police should take immediate action when any compliants is taken.All the villeages should be developed as soon as possible.Public should be given awareness about terrorism and its effects.To save our planet from terrorism first of all every citizen of each country should be aware of what their national flag symbolises and should respect it. As far as INDIA is concerned every citizen of our country should be aware of what our national flag symbolises and should act accordingly. The white strip of our national flag symbolises peace & harmony without any violence. Our country should be a role model for other countries peace & love should be spread everywhere.All of us must learn to love eachother and thus unite as one world. This can happen only when we as the daughters or the sons of this earth will take the initiative to go forward.If our country,will be a role model by full of peace and harmony naturally other countries will try to follow it and we can save our planet from terrorism.


i think terrorism is a global problem. all the countries of our world must get united to fight against terrorism. the US must stop supporting & giving weapons to the supporter of terrorist countries. india must take a aggressive attitude to fight terrorism. our politicians should not support terrorist who are active in our countr

Answer 7

We need to first act in our own country! Every major city has Black gangs, and Hispanic illegals as gangs. They are promoting terrorism with their drug dealings. We need to go through these cities and act like its Iraq! A strong message like this will sease the drugs coming in from out of the country, and make these punks find a real job, or be dead!!

Answer 8

When the world is cleansed of unbelievers and the reign of Allah is supreme throughout the world. So the best thing each and everyone of us can do is to not only convert to islam and be muslims, but to abide by the laws of Allah and his apostle, ie the sharia.

Answer 9

We can't. They know now that small-minded people can put fear into masses. All we can do is hope our leaders can stop them before another crisis. We do have to realize that some of our precious rights may have to be sacrificed.

Answer 10

I would sure love to see that day. Terrorism isn't the only threat though. In all, people are responsible for the world's greatest dangers.



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Answer 11

Get rid of the Muslims. The lot of 'em.
They want to do nothing but eradicate the western way of life.
Fine. Fight proper then. Instead of your cowardly, behind the back murdering ways.