Living with the threat of terror

After the failed assassination attempt on the Danish Muhammad cartoonist Kurt Westergaard, the daily Berlingske Tidende warns readers not to be paralysed by terror: "Just as the attempt to blow up an airplane on its way to the US on Christmas Day should not stop us from flying, so people like Kurt Westergaard with dangerous jobs who are in continual danger should not let themselves be intimidated by terrorists. The thing is to seek the right balance between security on the one hand and the need to live a free, normal life on the other. Terror is on the wane in many parts of the world. In others it is particularly active, allowing certain crazy individuals to attack an airliner, a cartoonist or a subway station. The key is to to live with this threat without having society become all too tightly cinched into the corset of security measures."

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