This is the battle whose enemy can be seen in the schools of radical fundamentalists, teaching only from the Qur'an as the last and final word on all questions that matter. This is the battle whose enemy can be seen in the schools of radical fundamentalists, teaching only from the Bible as the last and final word on all questions that matter. If the recent events have hit you in the gut, if you feel that this is a sign of something terribly wrong somewhere in the world, if the responses of our leaders have dismayed you or made you feel that this too is a sign of something wrong, that they are not thinking clearly and are not speaking for you, now is the time for you to look within your own lives and make a choice, once and for all, of what is most important to you. This is a war whose first victim was Prometheus, forever tormented by the gods for bringing fire and light to mortal humanity that had long suffered in darkness. The weapons for fighting this war are not guns, or bombs, or economic blockades, or threats, or other tactics that induce fear and suffering in the hearts of those seen as the enemy.
Fear is the enemy and to use weapons of fear is to have already lost the war.
If we try to fight with these weapons we will find utter and total defeat before the battle has even begun. The weapons of this war are schools. The munitions are ideas. Instead of bullets, let there be words. Instead of economic blockades, let a thousand ideas bloom.