The world is dividing into two hostile camps: Islam and "us". That is the unerring message fromwestern governments, press, radio and television. For Islam, read terrorists. It is reminiscent of the coldwar, when the world was divided between "Reds" and us, and even a strategy of annihilation waspermissible in our defence. We now know, or we ought to know, that so much of that was a charade; releasedofficial files make clear the Soviet threat was for public consumption only.