20. So cartooning (profane & irrepressible) becomes the perfect fault-line for a cultural/religious war.
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21. The clarifying thing about attacks on both cartoonists & Jews is they occur on exactly the fault-line where no compromise is possible.
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22. You can't have a modern liberal state without tolerance of satire & without protection of minorities. There's nothing to negotiate.
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23. This is a good question: @Kirkdify how can we avoid this?
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24. I'm genuinely pessimistic about whether there is any short run solution to jihadi violence anywhere.
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25. In Europe in particular, it seems like any solution lays the seeds for future problem.
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26. As I said, on the issues of free speech and protection of Jewish minority, there can't be any compromise.
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28. Problem with that suggestion, aside from civil liberties, is prisons are themselves sites of radicalization.
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29. A pre-emptive crackdown would only intensify the very alienation that produces the problem.
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30. RT @biliousbarnacle Merriman's "Dynamite Club" argues that 19th C anarchists eventually repulsed even sympathetic citizens.
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31. That last RT invites us to thing of longer history. We're living through the 4th wave of European terrorism in modern times.
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32. First wave: anarchism late 19th/early 20th; 2nd wave: rightwing violence of 1920s; 3rd wave: New Left 1970s; 4th wave: jihadi 21st cent.
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