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Today, the far right in Europe and in the United States is only gaining ground. But is attacking immigrants, as the police are doing, a solution to the security problems we face? What can we do about the rise of jihadism in particular? Jihadism feeds on the exclusion advocated by the extreme right and applied by the police. We need a functional police force and justice system to protect us from people who want to use violence. But in the prisons, among the relatives of victims of police violence, there won’t be any opportunities if you’re colored or Muslim. If the extreme right came to power, this downward spiral would be reinforced. The circle of violence where one feeds the other would advance the ideas of exclusion, clans and conflict. How is it that jihad terrorists and far-right extremists are released by the courts because of poor prison conditions or alleged irregularities? What would it take to win back the trust of both sides? How can we get people from immigrant backgrounds to want to integrate? How do we get people to want them? For future immigrants, denying asylum rights and encouraging the hiring of these people in illegal and undignified conditions is certainly not a solution because it feeds the idea that workers are being replaced by illegals. Giving in to the demands of jihadists, as Denmark has just done, by restricting freedom of expression, is certainly not the solution either, because it revives differences and weakens democracy. In the 1980s, fundamentalists in Egypt and Saudi Arabia were afraid because people wanted to adopt the Western way of life in their countries. The West was a beacon of envy. We need to regain that envy in the face of the rise of jihadism and the extreme right. We’ve been provoked and we’ve lost our good standing. The disastrous military interventions in Iraq and the failure to intervene in Bosnia-Herzegovina and Syria have damaged that standing. Putin gassed Aleppo and the United States, which had set a red line, …