Yet while the identification of the killer as a Moslem jihadi doesn't damn all Moslems as killers, the sad truth is that too large a minority is sympathetic to the motivations and maybe even the killings, however regrettable that may be. So France has a problem:
With France's deadly attacks, Islamic terror has apparently struck once more in the heart of Europe — and authorities say there's a dangerous twist: the emergence of homegrown extremists operating independent of any known networks, making them hard to track and stop.
"We have a different kind of jihadist threat emerging and it's getting stronger," Europol chief Rob Wainwright told The Associated Press in a telephone interview from The Hague. "It is much more decentralized and harder to track."
Indeed, it isn't just France that has a problem. But France could have the worst problem. Recall that over six years ago, France has a problem with vaguely defined "youths" torching cars and whatnot.
Sure, then their issue was "jobs" rather than "hijabs." But they were willing to torch cars over that grievance. Tomorrow, today's twist could make a new motivation for mayhem and burning--with the addition of brutal killings.
And as I've asked before, what if tomorrow a nuclear-armed, mullah-led Iran warns France to tread carefully when reacting to Moslem riots inside France? Now that's a twist.
