It was just over six months ago that the world woke up to the news that gunmen had opened fire on the Charlie Hebdo offices in Paris. I remember knowing instinctively who had done this and why. Everyone else found out pretty quickly too, as the haunting cries of Allahu Akbar and the sound and blurred out images of Ahmed Merabet being shot in the head at point blank range headlined every news bulletin on earth.
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