Islamic terrorism

French President Francois Hollande said Jan. 15 that Muslims were the "main victims" of fanaticism, as five of the 17 killed in last week's Islamist attacks in Paris were laid to rest.
      

Everyone, except for a few fanatics, has condemned the terrorist attack in France. They have cried out loudly that they stand alongside people's right to live, freedom of thought, and freedom of speech.

The Charlie Hebdo attack has led many to claim that - or at least question why - Islam is associated with terrorism. I would reverse the order of causality the question implies. We must first try to answer why there are so many terrorist organizations linked to radical Islam.

More than a million people and dozens of world leaders were expected to march through Paris on Jan. 11 in a historic display of global defiance against extremism after Islamist attacks that left 17 dead.
      

The Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) militant group praised the gunmen behind this week's killings at the Paris headquarters of the Charlie Hebdo weekly newspaper as "heroic jihadists", a monitoring group said on Jan. 9.

The deadly terrorist attack against the staff of satirical weekly Charlie Hebdo in Paris on Wednesday, which left 12 people dead, is clearly not a French problem and should be a cause for concern for everyone. We can safely say now that extremist Islamist terrorism has grown into a major threat for all of Europe.

French security forces deployed Jan. 7 in a northern town where two brothers suspected of having gunned down 12 people in an Islamist attack on satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo abandoned their car, a police source said.
      

Two Turkish government ministers have condemned the deadly shooting attack on a French satirical newspaper, while also calling on Europe to tackle the rise of Islamophobia.

An attack on the French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo has claimed at least 11 lives and has left ten people wounded, according to officials.

Five of those injured are in a critical condition, AFP officials say.

A major operation is under way in Paris as police are seeking to hunt down the perpetrators, the BBC reports.

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