New Yorker magazine on Paris massacre
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Adam Gopnik, one of New Yorker's best writers and their correspondent in Paris in 1995-2000, yesterday wrote a bitter piece on the Friday massacre:
He cited ISIS's subsequent communique, saying it had a "..ring of unleashed rage and blood madness, down to the ancient fury at the existence of Paris as a place of pleasure.
"'Targeting the capital of prostitution and obscenity ... Paris shook under [the shooters'] feet, and its streets were tight [?] upon them,' the group boasted. 'The result of these attacks,' the statement said, 'was the death of no less than 100 Crusaders.' People sitting on the terrace of a Cambodian restaurant -Crusaders, indeed.
"The new [ISIS] hunger for mass casualties, far beyond the needs even of diabolic publicity, is tied to a larger apocalyptic vision, a renewal of the twelfth-century religious warfare that the ISIS message underlined with such glee."
Adam Gopnik, one of New Yorker's best writers and their correspondent in Paris in 1995-2000, yesterday wrote a bitter piece on the Friday massacre:
He cited ISIS's subsequent communique, saying it had a "..ring of unleashed rage and blood madness, down to the ancient fury at the existence of Paris as a place of pleasure.
"'Targeting the capital of prostitution and obscenity ... Paris shook under [the shooters'] feet, and its streets were tight [?] upon them,' the group boasted. 'The result of these attacks,' the statement said, 'was the death of no less than 100 Crusaders.' People sitting on the terrace of a Cambodian restaurant -Crusaders, indeed.
"The new [ISIS] hunger for mass casualties, far beyond the needs even of diabolic publicity, is tied to a larger apocalyptic vision, a renewal of the twelfth-century religious warfare that the ISIS message underlined with such glee."