On January 2, 2015, two brothers by the names of Kouachi attacked a magazine company in France. These brothers were said to be apart of Al Qaeda, and attacked this company because the satirical remarks made about the Prophet Muhammad and their religion. Their attack killed 12 people, including people who worked in that company and police officers. This terrorist attack was the worst attack in France since World War II.
Two days later, these two brothers took a printing facility hostage. Police stormed in, saved the hostages and killed the suspects. But, a partner working with the Kouachi brothers took other hostages to a supermarket armed with explosives. Seventeen people were killed throughout all of these attacks.
When I came upon the article that explained the series of events that took place during this terrorist attack, I was so frightened that there was another attack that happened so recently. Although I know that these terrorists still exist, I had not heard of an attack since the attack at the Boston Marathon a couple of years ago.
This event relates to the religion we were learning about right after we completed the Cold War unit. Ever since the 1800s, religion has been a dominant part of political issues all over the world. This terrorist attack specifically was based solely off of religion, because the cause was rude remarks about the Muslim religion in this newspaper. Some people, like these, are willing to go to many extremes in order to protect the name of the religion they worship.
http://www.infoplease.com/country/france.html?pageno=14
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