“If our response is to stop people in our societies from saying things they don’t want us to say, we are falling into their trap - Gillian Slovo

“ask questions that they might not be asking of themselves” because as she says,

The actions of al-Qaeda or Islamic State can force our governments, and some of us, to give up on some of the hard-won democratic rights which is what makes us different from them. I'm talking about all sorts of things, freedom of expression being one of the most important ones.

it appears that the appeal is not so much the religious rhetoric but the promise of an alternative to capitalism.