11 January, 2015

This map shows every attack on French Muslims since Charlie Hebdo - Vox

This map shows every attack on French Muslims since Charlie Hebdo - Vox:

Further, such attacks play directly into
al-Qaeda's own logic and agenda, treating the act of few fringe
extremists as representative of the non-extremist whole, and fomenting
the idea of existential conflict between non-Muslims and Muslims where
none actually exists.




It's important to understand, though, that these attacks and the
sentiment behind them did not come from nowhere. French attitudes toward
Islam are, to say the least, complex — something evidenced at every
stage of this story.