Response needs to celebrate our values

IT is natural to hope that most people we meet on our journey through this ever-changing world are decent and humane and that they do not represent a threat of any kind. 

It is natural, then, to be angry when that hope is as spectacularly dashed as it has been in Paris and, more recently in the Belgian town of Verviers, where two suspected jihadists died when police unearthed a terrorist cell.

Our own history, that inescapable legacy, shows only too well how a tiny minority can divide a society by terrorist attacks.