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demonisation, which invisibly licenses terrible acts of destruction, will poison and corrupt any cause. We have seen the results in the mutilated bodies of Israelis blown up by suicide bombers; in the ruins of the twin towers in Manhattan as rescue workers sifted through rubble for body parts; or in the night-club in Bali after the recent mass slaughter. As Eduardo Galeano has written, ‘In the battle between good and evil it is the people that get killed.’

Certainly, the dreams of world-domination which drive radical Islamists have been there from the beginning. But neither those dreams nor their violent righteousness are unique to Islam. They are the common property of all three Abrahamic faiths; Judaism, Christianity and Islam have always been, at their scriptural core, ideologies of world-domination. It was in the Christian tradition alone that the fantasy of world-domination was denied and projected onto the Jewish people.

‘Dehumanizing one’s enemy is nothing new to our world; it seems to be a universal human fault. It is a self-engineered ploy and an immature defense mechanism that helps people to feel less guilty about the crimes they commit against others. It is also an ominous sign, predictive of one nation’s desire to eradicate another.