The events of 11 September 2001 and subsequent terrorist acts - the bombings in Bali and Madrid, the countless examples of destruction from Palestine, Israel, Iraq - have created a climate where violence and atrocity is a regular part of the daily news. These activities have tended to polarise emotional responses to terrorism and violence. What one individual sees as an unspeakable atrocity is another's jihad; what one sees as a just war, another believes to be brutality and repression.
Not everyone considered the attack on the twin towers a disaster, and the television images of celebrations in the streets in some parts of the world are a stark reminder of the divided world in which we live.
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