What Lord Voldemort and terrorism have in common
Sometimes life imitates art. Not here I think. I fear that the future of terrorism will bear little resemblance to a Harry Potter film. Terrorism is here to stay and we need to learn to live with it. This is not defeatism and I am not advocating lying down passively. There is much we can do and having a realist view is not a hindrance.
OTTAWA—In the Harry Potter novels, the villain is known as Lord Voldemort. He is in many ways a terrorist. He is ideologically driven (he wants to take over the wizarding world and force everyone to conform to his way of doing things) and he uses violence to achieve his goals. He recruits follower...
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