The murderous terrorist assault in Paris that has killed at least 127 people is civilisation’s worst nightmare: indiscriminate attacks in the heart of a capital city on peaceful people, guilty of nothing more than enjoying a meal or listening to a band. Coming days after suicide bomb blasts in Beirut, it is clear we are living through another spasm of Islamist terrorism, just at the moment when the extremists’ badlands in Syria and Iraq are under threat.
已造成至少132人被害的巴黎恐怖襲擊是文明的最可怕噩夢：在某個首都的市中心向和平的人民發起不分青紅皂白的襲擊，而被害者的過錯無非是享用一頓美餐或者聽一場音樂會。這波兇殘的恐怖襲擊發生在貝魯特遭遇自殺式炸彈幾天后，顯然說明我們正在經歷又一波伊斯蘭主義恐怖活動——就在極端分子在敘利亞和伊拉克盤踞的不毛之地受到威脅之際。
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