It’s not easy to resist the threats and the hysteria that surround us,but we must do, as alarm is the greatest danger to open societyOpen societies are always endangered. This is particularly proper of America and Europe today, and as a result of the terrorist attacks in Paris and elsewhere,and the way that America and Europe, particularly France, or have reacted to them.
Jihadi terrorist groups such as Islamic State and al-Qaida have discovered the achilles heel of our western societies: the alarm of death. Through horrific attacks and macabre videos,the publicists of Isis magnify this alarm, main otherwise sensible people in hitherto open societies to abandon their reason.
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Source: theguardian.com