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  • Three months after the terrorist attack on Charlie Hebdo in 2015, young cartoonist Pierrick Juin joined the staff of the French satirical newspaper to, in his own words, help keep alive and safeguard the ‘stupid and mean’ spirit of a fearless publication he always loved. Now 33, his insightful, trenchant social, cultural, and political commentary appears regularly on French newsstands. For Marc Weitzmann’s article, Tablet invited Juin to comment on the deadly serious French intellectual debate on Islamism and separatism. From his perch on the frontlines of that debate, Juin picked up on the fact that French Muslims are pretty much the same as other French people, rather than the exoticized subjects of opposing political and intellectual arguments. ‘Wanna do it?’ the wife in the illustration asks. Juin did.
    Three months after the terrorist attack on Charlie Hebdo in 2015, young cartoonist Pierrick Juin joined the staff of the French satirical newspaper to, in his own words, help keep alive and safeguard the ‘stupid and mean’ spirit of a fearless publication he always loved. Now 33, his insightful, trenchant social, cultural, and political commentary appears regularly on French newsstands. For Marc Weitzmann’s article, Tablet invited Juin to comment on the deadly serious French intellectual debate on Islamism and separatism. From his perch on the frontlines of that debate, Juin picked up on the fact that French Muslims are pretty much the same as other French people, rather than the exoticized subjects of opposing political and intellectual arguments. ‘Wanna do it?’ the wife in the illustration asks. Juin did.
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    France’s Great Debate Over the Sources and Meaning of Muslim Terror

    A rivalry between the country’s two most prominent ‘Islamologists,’ Olivier Roy and Gilles Kepel, holds the key to understanding the existential and geopolitical tensions in France’s bloody reality

    byMarc Weitzmann
  • Khaled Meshaal, of Hamas, in January.(Mohammed al-Hams/Khaled Meshaal's Office of Media via Getty Images)
    Khaled Meshaal, of Hamas, in January.(Mohammed al-Hams/Khaled Meshaal's Office of Media via Getty Images)
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    Islamist Democracy Is For Real

    The Muslim Brotherhood and Hamas can’t be written off as easily anymore

    byMarc Tracy
  • A celebration in Tahrir Square, Cairo, yesterday.(Jeff J Mitchell/Getty Images)
    A celebration in Tahrir Square, Cairo, yesterday.(Jeff J Mitchell/Getty Images)
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    Egypt’s Brotherhood Blazes Central Trail

    Popular group must guard right flank but also stand up to military

    byMarc Tracy
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