CAIRO, September 7 (IslamOnline.net) - With swelling hotspots on the world map, a Bangladeshi team of two peace activists found it more urgent as prolific to launch their "war-free world" campaign - only using a bicycle - to better convoy that humanity should be saved the scourge.

"With our plans to pedal away for around-world peace mission, we are trying to send our message clear that war is the most ferocious enemy to human beings," said Mohamed Momanur Rahman, a 28-year-old physician and a longtime scout leader with a much larger concern.

"We felt we should do something for the globe, and here comes history," he said, priding his two-man team in visiting eight countries before, and now visiting Egypt as the first stop of a 50-leg African cycling tour.

"We are fighting war by the same means available thousands of years ago, when people were illiterate and more abhorrent of ideas and other crises we are now grappling with abundantly," Kamal Kumar Saha spoke of a journey that could take them six years.

Coming from Bangladesh, a country mostly known to the world as a poor country, the two men said the world's enemy is much bigger.

"The world is now facing the threatening dangers of AIDS, poverty, drugs and lack of health care, but we think all of these enemies are originated from one larger, and more cruel, which is war," said Rahman with a defiant as enthusiastic tone.

The anti-war world journey further grew politicized with the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq on March 20.

The two Bangladeshi pacifists voiced their opposition to the Anglo-American invasion of Iraq, something they are so keen to speak up against during the goodwill trip.

"It is unfair to carry out the aggression against Iraq, in which babies are the ones who paid the price dearly for" getting rid of Saddam Hussein, said Saha.

He added that they approached the well-known American soft drinks company Coca-cola for sponsorship shortly before the Iraq invasion.

"But they asked us to change our theme, and choose any slogan instead of the anti-war one in order to get the 25,000-dollar support," said Rahman, asserting they spurned the offer upright.

The team visited India and Pakistan - two nuclear-capable neighbors usually standing on the verge of another war over the Himalayan region of Kashmir.

"In the two countries, we were unexpectedly stunned by people's calls to quit perils before peace and stability in the two countries," said Saha.

"Much less, they were even eager to talk to each other," he contended, saying it is "only a handful of selfish politicians who want to spark war or expand its flames to many areas."

"We just start with ordinary people, which makes us stay even in hospitals, who could send a big NO to their governments approaching the specter of war," said Rahman.

"Religion, race and color should not be allowed to act as impediments to securing world peace," said Saha, a Hindu, with a nod from Muslim Rahman.

They expressed readiness to visit Israel, in a bid to "end the killing of Palestinian civilians through peaceful means," said Rahman.

But, showing his Bangladeshi passport, Israel is the only country that still does not recognize his country.

The two youths also lamented that some governments were apathetic about their message.

Saha, noted in this regard, they were asked to pay 120 dollars for getting visas to Sudan and earlier denied entry into Kuwait "despite a letter of recommendation from a Bangladeshi diplomat."