by Tashbih Sayyed

About the author: Tashbih Sayyed is editor in chief of In Review, a quarterly journal published by the United States Institute of Strategic Studies for South Asia, and of Pakistan Today, a weekly national newspaper published in California.

This first war of the new millennium is a war of minds. This war will not be won by conquering bodies and real estate, but rather minds and hearts. This war is to be waged on a different kind of battlefield—in the religious academies and schools. The weapons in this war will have to be different. They will have to change the circumstances that give birth to such a state of mind. We will have to remember that poverty, ignorance and absence of basic human rights give birth to anger...