“It is a mistake to assume that his supporters are monsters glorifying terrorism. To do so is to make the same mistake as the terrorists we abhor: demonising those who take a different view from ourselves and thinking of them as less than fully human. That does not make as bad as those who actually kill, of course. But if we really want to do better than them, we should make sure we think better than them too.”
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