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France and Islamic terror: the theological roots of fanaticism

And it’s happened again: the French state has launched a crackdown on Muslim extremists, rounding up contacts of the killer and vowing to shut down radical groups. It has also reached out to the law-abiding majority of French Muslims with proposals to create an “enlightened Islam”. So what will happen next? French leaders have tried and failed to reshape Islam along more Gallic lines for the past three decades.