Respond in kind (shutting down borders, nurturing the hate, scoffing at muslims) and we lose our civilization.
There is no way to prevent what has happened from happening again. It will happen again. The people of the world, no matter what religion, can be kind and welcoming to each other, it will happen again because there are always extremists.
The one thing I know for sure is that it will happen more often if we accept hate against cultures, races, immigrants. If we - no matter what culture - embrace the hate that the populists are advertising every day, then we will drive more people into the arms of the populists, we will encourage more people to hate, we will have more hate-driven violence.
The only way to "win" this, is to refuse to hate.
/Slozem
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