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20 HIS HOLINESS MIRZA MASROOR AHMAD outcomes might have resulted. This is clearly an act of aggression. Even Western analysts have now begun to acknowledge that destroying or waging war against Iran is not as easy as they had imagined. Iran is a vast country with reasonable strength, and this war could continue for an extended period. Although its effects will be felt on the global economy, its impact on the Muslim world will be far greater. Yet the most tragic aspect of all this is that Muslims them- selves are shedding the blood of Muslims. Muslims should therefore fear the punishment of Allah the Almighty. The Human Cost of War and the Suffering of Civilians Hundreds of children have been killed, and hundreds of innocent people have lost their lives. The Western analysts are now commenting that if an attack occurs in Israel, America, or any Western country, and even a few children are killed, news- papers publish column after column discussing it for days on end. Yet when a school is bombed, and hundreds of children are killed here, no one