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Maajid Nawaz has some good thoughts on combating this evil:

Maajid Nawaz: Stop Saying Violence Has Nothing To Do With Islam

Maajid Nawaz's Four-Point Plan To Defeat Islamist Terrorists

"And fourth and finally, these Jihadists are attacking us because they despise our freedom, our democracy, our human rights, our secularism, our pluralism, our respect for difference.

"They despise everything we stand for, so why would you, if you know that that's why they are attacking us, also endorse an attack on those very same values?

"If the terrorists are attacking us because they hate our freedom and our human rights and our democracy and our secularism and our pluralism, then why would you do their job for them by undermining those very values in your response or reaction to these attacks?

"That means we must jealously guard and preserve our way of life, what we stand for, our values that we cherish, because that is the best way to fight these terrorists.

"Democracy and secularism is our best revenge.Freedom and democracy and pluralism and tolerance is the way in which we fight back, because that's the very thing they want to undermine.