Terrorism is destroying lives, destabilising regions and putting the world at great peril, External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj said at the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) meeting on Friday and asserted the war against the menace was not against any religion.
Attending the meeting in the shadow of heightened tension between India and Pakistan following the killing of 40 CRPF personnel in Kashmir's Pulwama district by the Pakistan-based Jaish-e-Mohammed, Swaraj, who is the first Indian minister to address the meeting of the 57 Islamic countries, said "very few" Muslims in India have fallen prey to the poisonous propaganda of radical and extremist ideologies.
"Terrorism and extremism bear different names and labels. It uses diverse causes. But in each case, it is driven by distortion of religion, and