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I am obviously not level headed, sensible and am over reacting. I must have imagined that there are religious zealots who have slaughtered people in Nairobi, New York, London, Bali, Bombay, Brussels, Madrid, Ankara, Istanbul, Paris and a whole load of other places. How ridiculous to think that...

As you said in your last paragraph, which I generally agreed with, intelligence. We mustn't underestimate the threat of militant Islamists. In the past westerners ( including me ) thought you could resolve it by dealing with Palestinian/ Israeli issues. That is complete folly as proved by what...

Imho it is a terrible mistake to compare ISIS with the IRA. It is also futile to turn this into another right v left, blue v red, United v City political yawn. The Islamists hold all western culture in complete contempt. Measured calm articles from the Guardian are not going to solve anything.

Very much so!

Reluctantly I do. My experience of it, working as a teacher, was that it stirred up trouble. For instance, the Jewish community were presented as totally observant. The secular element of British Jews was ignored which was ridiculous for someone who'd grown up in B&H. Other religious minorities...

Well said. And an end to Religious Education in state schools. Much as I enjoyed bible stories as a kid probably for the wrong reasons.

Equating ISIS with the IRA is a massive error because the latter had political aims and weren't into suicide bombing. There are millennial aspects of ISIS wanting to create the caliphate. There are some good articles in the Guardian but too often it's all about wealthy liberals wanting to feel...