While these questions may never be answered and the sensitive information about the terrorist killings may remain as classified material of the French National Security State, there is an unvarying trend in the terror narrative, especially, in the Western world after 9/11: that the evil of terrorism is external and emanates from the "Planet of Arabs" to destroy the openness and tolerance of western culture.
Any resistance to the dominant narrative of western terror discourse invites a swift reprimand in the form of verbal abuse: "terrorist sympathizer" or worse, "fu*k**g liberal".
The Western terror narrative, describing the nature and causes of terrorism expounded by western media, politicians and so-called "terror experts" of the military industrial complex, is essentially a propagandist narrative in which six elements are woven together to form a unified discourse of deception.
Firstly, That the West stands for decency and is an innocent target and victim of terrorism. It follows from this proposition that the West does not engage in nor support terrorism in any way, shape or form.
Secondly, That the West only responds to other people's use of force. The invasion of Iraq by the U.S. was justified on the specious plea that Saddam's regime possessed weapons of mass destruction and was harboring Islamic terrorists- both were false accusations.
Thirdly, unlike in the West, terrorists do not adhere to civilized norms of conduct.
Fourthly, in those cases when the west supports insurgents who use force, this is done in behalf of democracy against repressive regimes such as Libya and Syria. Furthermore, the insurgents supported by the west never kill innocent civilians.
Fifthly, Open societies and vibrant democracies, such as in the west, are vulnerable to terrorists whose ultimate object is to destroy moderate governments.
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