People talk about ‘brainwashing’ but it is the duty of all Muslims to spread the word of Allah. The complication arises from Islamic texts which teach that non-believers are the enemy of Islam – and that justifies Jihad – holy war. If we are to defeat this ever-growing worldwide problem, rather than continue to attempt to deflect attacks, which is what we’re currently doing, we must openly acknowledge and address the root cause. However, in a society that insists it must remain tolerant, I don’t believe that will ever happen – and if it did, how are we going to convince millions upon millions of people that the literature they’ve relied upon since birth to guide them in every aspect of their lives, and which they regard at irrefutable, is at fault? We can begin a very lengthy process of educating the young in ways more conducive to civilised society by abolishing faith schools; we can monitor mosques and the internet, and we can remove Imams and Islamic literature from prisons, but other than removing the proponents of violence from society altogether, which would go some way to sticking a plaster over the wound, there is no short-term solution.