François Hollande, France’s president, rightly called it “an act of exceptional barbarity . . . against freedom of expression”. But the murder on Wednesday of 12 people at the Paris offices of Charlie Hebdo, a satirical magazine, will not surprise anyone familiar with the rising tensions among France’s 5m or more Muslim citizens and the poisonous legacy of French colonialism in north Africa.
法国总统弗朗索瓦•奥朗德(François Hollande)恰如其分地将周三发生的枪击案称为“针对言论自由的……惨无人道之举”。不过,任何一个人,如果熟悉法国穆斯林公民群体中日渐紧张的情绪,以及法国对北非那段殖民历史延续至今的遗毒,那么他对讽刺漫画杂志《查理周刊》(Charlie Hebdo)巴黎总部12人被枪杀一事就不会感到意外。如今,法国的穆斯林公民人口已达到500万甚至更多。
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