Violence against embassies and civilians must be categorically condemned. At the same time, we must attempt to understand why such events occur.

History is replete with ideologies of freedom, justice, liberation of the downtrodden and the exploited, that have been turned against the very people they had mobilised, or that have reproduced the same logic of exclusion and terror toward those whom they claimed to set free.

Violence and racism are bad. Whenever they occur they are to be condemned (and) we should not turn a blind eye to them.

Times have changed; so must the lenses through which we see the political future.

We must confront our own racism. Discriminatory housing and employment policies are nothing more than institutionalised racism.

Mankind must be positively and constructively wary of mankind, of their fellow man, of their families, of the members of their faith community, of their fellow-citizens.