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We need to listen and understand why citizens are disenfranchised (Photo: j naylor)

Why are liberal democracies not winning the argument?

The attacks in Paris against Charlie Hebdo, against the police officers protecting their offices, against a random police woman, and against shoppers and staff in a kosher supermarket, are not going to change the way we live.

Yet we have to ask ourselves why liberal democracies are not winning the argument.

Because while - as has been widely recognised - acts of terrorism in no way coincide with Islam (except perhaps in the sense that religion can function as a conduit for other...

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We need to listen and understand why citizens are disenfranchised (Photo: j naylor)

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