French history teacher stabbed, decapitated by Islamic extremist

[President Punxsutawney Phil]

The kind of people who do this are often those most divorced from the actual tenets of the religion but spiritually feeling very much in line with its ethos, even if that's not the case in reality.
Yes, this is terrorism. No doubt about it. I hope boneheadedness does not prevail however in how this is reacted to.
It's counterproductive to throw the baby in with the bathwater. Terms like takbir, allahu akbar, even jihad* have their place if used properly, and in fact Western Europeans especially tend to be badly misinformed on some of these things.
Condolences to the family of the teacher and to his students; and may people live together in as much harmony as is possible.
*=can mean struggle within the mind for self-improvement, a la Islam's version of nirvana or whatnot. Or it can mean acting wholy peacefully in the public sphere, doing activism and whatnot.

[President Punxsutawney Phil]

Sad to see such a great country regress to this.

You can hardly call Paris a European city at this stage.

On what grounds is it hardly "European"?