Eye on the world: A courageous response to terrorism

In “New York’s response to a truck terroristThe Christian Science Monitor’s Editorial Board writes: “In defiance of the fear-based approach to terrorist acts by most news media, New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo announced after the Oct. 31 truck attack in Manhattan that the killing spree by one young man ‘did not instill terror’ among New Yorkers. Indeed, the city’s Halloween parade was not canceled. Life mostly went on. 

“And the governor’s point was made. We must not be complicit in the Islamic State’s aim of spreading self-debilitating fear…. 

“The best reaction to terror is to double down on providing the light of hope and unity. That, and not numbing, self-perpetuating fear, is the best answer to hate and violence.”

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