We always believed that modern education would take care of the problem of terrorism; that terrorists were misguided, uneducated youth. The recent events in Delhi, where the terrorists turned out to be doctors, challenge that belief. No amount of modern education can overcome hardcore fanatic conditioning.

When any religion promotes fanaticism and death to non-believers, it reduces itself to a cult. True religion promotes dharma—universal ethics, acceptance of all humanity, and respect for individual freedom. Only when religions enhance rather than........

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