"the police, hospitals and public transport staff have already said they won't play ball" - Good.

The President of the Conference of European Rabbis writes.

A Muslim and former Republican writes a long, heartfelt piece.

"Islamic militants are normal people who are often incompetent, not particularly well informed, not particularly well prepared and certainly not the classic vision of the Islamic terrorist"

"The majority of men are in no persuasion bigots; they are not willing to sacrifice on every vain imagination that superstition or enthusiasm holds forth, or that even zeal and piety recommend, the certain possession of their temporal happiness ... "If anything can tend to revive and keep [fanaticism] up, it is to keep alive the passions…

Excellent commentary - transferable to many situations.

Nate Silver talks sense

Nate Silver talks even more sense