We are living in a world that is beyond controllability.

Electronic communication makes possible what has previously been excluded: namely, active, simultaneous and reciprocal contact between individuals across all frontiers constituted by countries, religions and continents.

In the first instance, therefore, global terrorism created a kind of global community sharing a common fate, something we had previously considered impossible.

In the final analysis, terror is also another proof of the fact that the superpower is not really a superpower. It was vulnerable.

Neither science, nor the politics in power, nor the mass media, nor business, nor the law nor even the military are in a position to define or control risks rationally.

The world has become so complex that the idea of a power in which everything comes together and can be controlled in a centralized way is now erroneous.

Western countries in particular can today no longer be separated from Muslim societies, because they have them within themselves. They are themselves internally globalized.