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• Matthew d’Ancona in The Guardian:

“An ideological phenomenon that leads to the deaths of children leaving a pop concert, and the mowing down of pedestrians in our capital city, cannot be tolerated or contained with half-measures for fear of causing offence.”

Mr. d’Ancona cheers on the strongly worded statement from Prime Minister Theresa May of Britain in reaction to the attacks on the London Bridge. The “poisonous ideology” that produced the terrorist attacks in Manchester and this weekend cannot be contained, he argues, with negotiation. “Terrorists negotiate only when they are exhausted by conflict and calculate that they have no more to gain from violent methods,” and Mr. d’Acona sees no such exhaustion in the near future. Read more »

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• Dan Jones in The Federalist:

“For those on the right who sometimes hold unfair biases against Muslims, hearing a Muslim share political or economic philosophy can go a long way towards erasing the lines that have kept them apart.”

Conservative or libertarian Muslims exist, Mr. Jones writes; we just don’t see their views represented in the right- or left-wing news media. The left, he argues, does an “impressive job of finding marginalized groups and quickly activating them politically,” which is why so many Muslim voices we hear in the liberal news media are “highly partisan, dyed-in-the-wool leftists.” The conservative news media, in the rare cases in which it invites a Muslim to speak, “accepts this idea of Muslims as leftists at face value.” This is not only inaccurate, Mr. Jones argues, but counterproductive to building strong coalitions. Read more »