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I'm actually not convinced Charlie was racist either--or even published necessarily racist material (and no, I don't know much about the author's position)--but IMO the important thing is that regardless, the attack was perpetrated by followers of radical Islam, which leaves the situation open to arguments about state responses to Islam. I mean, yes it's a narrative assumption to predict what people will do (although I think it's a different kind of assumption: the designation of terrorism explicitly seeks to define the conversation), but that assumption is based on past experience with the European right etc., and like I pointed out, the prediction came to pass. The European right are now using the attack to justify anti-Islamic sentiment.