Sharpening Contradictions: Why al-Qaeda attacked Satirists in Paris | Informed Comment

Sharpening Contradictions: Why al-Qaeda attacked Satirists in Paris | Informed Comment: Most of France will also remain committed to French values of the Rights of Man, which they invented. But an insular and hateful minority will take advantage of this deliberately polarizing atrocity to push their own agenda. Europe’s future depends on whether the Marine LePens are allowed to become mainstream. Extremism thrives on other people’s extremism, and is inexorably defeated by tolerance.