They want us scared and they want us to retaliate. Not on them in their bolt-holes in Syria and Iraq, but against the Muslims who we see in the street when we go to the shops. They want to generate that fear between Muslims and non-Muslims, to create that narrative of a war between the West and Islam, the sort of thing that certain people on here already believe in. Because then it makes it easier to recruit Muslims who feel that they are no longer welcome in the West because they are not trusted.
It's up to us, really, how much they succeed.
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