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Islam and Free Speech
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The Kouachi brothers had been born in Paris in the early 1980s to Algerian immigrants. Orphaned, they bounced around the nearby suburbs, or banlieues, so many of which have become Islamic enclaves. Like an alarming number of young French Muslims, both were trained jihadists, wending their way from radical French mosques to the training camps of al-Qaeda’s franchise in Yemen.
Though they roamed France freely, the brothers were known to the authorities as would-be terrorists. Chérif, in fact, had been arrested in 2005 while trying to join the anti-American jihad in Iraq. Three years later, he was briefly imprisoned for recruiting on behalf of al-Qaeda in Iraq, the franchise that eventually evolved into ISIS. It was during a prison stay that he befriended Coulibaly, another young French Muslim born to immigrants (from Mali) who was serving a bank-robbery sentence. The two men fell in with an al-Qaeda recruiter, Djamel Beghal, then serving a 10-year sentence for conspiring to bomb the American embassy in Paris. Beghal, an eminence in Europe’s growing jihadist circles, had found al-Qaeda while he was a regular at London’s infamous Finsbury mosque.
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