1,000 young people leaving to fight on the side of ISIS or other
jihadis in Iraq and Syria, and now the murderous attack by two men of
Algerian descent on the satirical weekly Charlie Hebdo. Why, and where
will this latest attack lead?

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Modern France thus produced a strong tradition, especially in Paris, of
opposition to organized religion, and satire of its pretensions.
Charlie Hebdo succeeded a long line of satirical magazines that
ridiculed religion, and Charlie took down all with pretensions:
Christians, Muslims, Michael Jackson—everyone.

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France will not change its decades-old foreign policy, nor are rights
and practices of satire likely to fade away. But the main impact may be
to use the attacks as an excuse to blame Islam and immigration for
broad anxieties about where things are going in Europe today. Such a