The French satirical magazine republished the controversial caricatures of Prophet Muhammad. An expert says satire has often been a subject of condemnation.
Articles on Charlie Hebdo attack
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Charlie Hebdo’s often biting and dark humour frequently troubles people in France, and many reactions to the attack in France were not in keeping with the values of the publication.
Memorials to the terror attack have become visual and transient – a battleground to contest parts of French identity.
Do ISIS fighters feel guilty about the violence they perpetrate? Not likely, according to criminological research, which suggests terrorists “neutralise” their guilt, just as many other criminals do.
How literary analysis led one scholar to develop a theory of how immigrants become connected to their host society – and therefore unlikely to attack it.
While the French public comes to terms with a series of appalling attacks, politicians seize the opportunity to position themselves ahead of next year’s Presidential election.
The people who killed a priest in Rouen were driven by a warped agenda, not their social and economic backgrounds.
The far right isn’t afraid to admit to fear in the wake of brutal attacks like the one in Nice. More mainstream politicians would be wise to follow suit.
Recent attacks in Paris and Brussels have taught the French some important lessons about how to deal with the threat of terrorism.
Family members share both genetics and environment to a greater extent than people in general. And this has implications for counterterrorism approaches.
France was left reeling by the attacks of January 2015 and things only got worse as the year unfolded – so why the political inertia?
Under pressure in the Middle East, ISIS is turning to terrorism in Europe with a new set of predictable goals.
Ten years after the Danish cartoon crisis, it’s time to discuss how freedom of religion and freedom of speech can coexist.
The news that two British journalists and their unnamed Iraqi colleague were arrested and charged by the Turkish authorities [though released following publication of this article] for “engaging in terror…
France’s paradoxical relationship with provocative artworks has, again, come to the fore.
When he interred four anti-racist and secularist icons in Paris’s Panthéon, François Hollande perhaps hoped some of their legacy would rub off on him.
Counter-extremism proposals replace tolerance with incarceration.
The PEN literary gala has been overshadowed by controversy.
What makes some communities more vulnerable to the use of violence than others?
The cowardly murder of Jews in France and Denmark, in conjunction with terrorist attacks designed to shut down discussion, is justifiably a cause for more than a passing concern. Europe may be witnessing…
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