British media recently presented two unrelated columns that, each in its own way, raised alarming questions about religious violence and religious politics. Putting the two reports together frames some political dilemmas that are going to be with us for years, possibly decades, into the future. The first was a Daily Telegraph piece about the various nightmares imagined by French intelligence in the wake of the recent near-massacre on the Amsterdam–Paris train. Clearly, this is not just journalistic speculation: the authors... Read more