My condolences to the people of France. I wonder how long before the world stops saying "We are all French now" and the apologists begin talking about French colonialism or French Islamophobia as the root cause of Friday's atrocities. In March I wrote this this article on the War of Freedom in the light of the
Charlie Hebdo massacres. It is, tragically, even more relevant today than it was then:
https://quadrant.org.au/magazine/2015/03/long-war-war-freedom/