Paris attacks: Islamic State sees its attacks as sacred strategy This was published in the Australian Inquirer . It is a more general version of a longer article posted a few days previously on Lapido Media ‘Paris attacks were not nihilism’ . As the expressions of shock and solidarity subside after the Paris killings, the challenge to understand will remain. Much commentary of the past week has situated these atrocities in opposition to values familiar to western people. Seen in this light the attacks appear senseless and even insane. US Secretary of State John Kerry called the killers ‘psychopathic monsters’. However the first step in understanding a cultural system alien to one’s own is to describe it in its own terms. We can and must love our neighbour, as Walid Aly urged this week on The Project, but this need not prevent us from understanding our enemy, and to do this we need to grasp that this latest slaughter was shaped by religious beliefs. In July a ISIS militant
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