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After Paris
Malik, Kenan
http://kenanmalik.wordpress.com/2015/11/15/after-paris/Date Written: 2015-11-15 Year Published: 2015 Resource Type: Article Cx Number: CX18247 Some have seen the terrorism as the consequence of French foreign policy in Syria. Yet we should be wary of seeing these attacks as a response, however perverted, to French, or Western, foreign policy. The terrorists did not target symbols of the French state, or of French militarism. They did not even target tourist spots. They targeted, rather, the areas and the places where mainly young, anti-racist, multiethnic Parisians hang out. What the terrorists despised, what they tried to eliminate, were ordinary people, drinking, eating, laughing, mixing. That is what they hated - not so much the French state as the values of diversity and pluralism. Subject Headings |