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by inglor_cz 190 days ago
People are tribal, and the clash of values between Islam and postmodern secular Europeans is very real.
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again, that clash is not the cause for the problems we are facing.
People/institutions didn't want to fix real problems. This unwillingbess/inability causes problems to spiral and more and more problems to appear. Including the clash.
Cartoonists at Charlie Hebdo weren't killed by capitalism or global climate change.

Personally, I consider the chilling effect of such events on freedom of speech and art quite a huge problem. This freedom was crucial to European prosperity.

But that attack wasn’t representative of any large population, it was the result of terrorists doing terrorist things.
IIRC the results of the "Did they deserve it?" polls among the European Muslim populations weren't particularly encouraging.
What polls?