Tearful as I watched the events unfold in Paris yesterday. In the aftermath, trying to understand why. It is difficult. After the Charlie Hebdo attacks in Paris earlier this year many people blamed religion. A Foreign Policy writer, Christian Caryl responded in a way which holds truth again today:
The real problem isn’t religion. It’s a deeper psychological failure that afflicts humans of all varieties, religious and not. It’s called “fanaticism” — that eerie quality of single-mindedness that can lead even the intelligent and the educated to believe that the views they hold excuse any form of savagery.