This week’s homicidal attack on a French satirical magazine follows years of violence against French Jews. Will Europeans finally begin to realize that radical Islamism presents a grave threat to Western civilization? David Horovitz writes:
Speaking to Israeli television from Paris on Wednesday night, hours after gunmen shouting “Allahu Akbar” had shot dead twelve people at the offices of the Charlie Hebdo satirical magazine, the French-Jewish parliamentarian Meyer Habib called the massacre France’s 9/11. When Islamist killers targeted Jews in Toulouse in 2012 and Brussels last year, Habib recalled, “we warned that this would come to all of France. And to our sorrow it came. . . .”
The question is whether France, Britain, and the rest of Europe, in the aftermath of Wednesday’s assault . . . will now muster a more energetic, coordinated, and effective response.
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