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Finally, national government, the public sector and local government will require a level of political and religious literacy that does not necessarily come easily, and it is again welcome that the strategy recognises this fact. If, for example, members of a crowd begin to chant during a demonstration, “Khaybar, Khaybar, ya yahud. Jaish Muhammad soufa ya’oud”, local police need to understand what the chant means and the threat it makes. Most of us do not speak Arabic, are not Muslims, do not study political thought, may have no sympathy with religion in any event, and may simply and mistakenly identify Islam the ancient faith with Islamism the modern ideology.