Terror in France

Gilles Kepel, professor of political sciences at the École normale supérieure in Paris, is well known due to several other publications of his, i.e. Beyond Terror and Martyrdom: The Future of the Middle East; The War for Muslim Minds: Islam and the West; and Jihad: The Trail of Political Islam. The book under review begins on November 13, 2015, when at the site of a friendly soccer match between France and Germany in Paris three killers, with mad apocalyptic visions and connections to Iraq, blew themselves up, killing, besides themselves, only one single passer-by. Other slaughters took place, again in Paris, at the offices of Charlie Hebdo (2015) and at a Christmas market in Berlin (2016).