14.7.05

Some thoughts

I'm watching Newsnight with Aaron Brown right now and I want to post some comments on what I'm seeing. BTW, Newsnight is one of my favourite shows, though I usually don't watch it at 20h00 when it's on 'live,' but at 23h00 when it's on replay.

They're saying that the London suicide-bombers were from decently well-off families, rather well educated, one even a science student. It reminded me of the reason that Soka exists. We have to be able to inject humanism into education. Obviously these attackers were not coming from poor neighborhoods and were uneducated and "easily-led." They were people who had belief that weren't that different from what the common people have. Though they must have been led down a path towards radical/super-conservative Islam, they came from a background that doesn't have a strong basis in humanism obviously. With education that teaches true respect for all life, I doubt that there would be such acts of horrible terrorism.

A thought, passes through my mind: what is soka education? how do I put soka education into my life, instill it to the depths?

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