Promoting literacy and peace I read Shariq Majeed’s write-up “Schools of hope and peace” (Saturday Extra, Dec. 12). The Christ school and the Raza-ul-Uloom Islamic School are excellent examples to copy. Humanitarian organisations and public-spirited people should set up such schools to spread literacy and preach peaceful coexistence. The message of the Islamic school is very correct and courageous: “the word Islam itself means peace. Try to make the world peaceful and happy. A Muslim is not a terrorist. A terrorist is not a Muslim. Be proud to be an Indian”. The principal of the school has rightly remarked that the Prophet was “man of peace”. A couple of years ago some Ulema had declared that a person ceased to be a Muslim when he became a terrorist. I say, he ceases to be a human being and becomes a minion of Satan. During his 23-year ministry, the Prophet never committed even the slightest aggression. In his last historic sermon, he unequivocally declared, inter alia, that he crushed under his feet till doomsday any desecration of human life and terminated the blood shedding of the days of ignorance for ever.

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Kashmir is renowned not just for its romantic beauty and salubrious climate but also for its communal unity and cultural harmony. By their ethnic cleansing campaign, the terrorists have destroyed the secular fiber of this paradise on earth and turned it into a killing field. The peace-loving people wonder: Kab nazar mein aaey gee be-daagh sabzey kee bahaar/Kahoon key dhabbey dhulein gey kitni barsaaton key baad. BHAGWAN SINGH, Qadian