Murder in Paris and the corruption of language

I had difficulty with putting my thoughts about the murders in Paris into words. To describe the murderers as 'terrorists' would be misleading. Yet they were not ordinary criminals, ordinary murderers either. The perpetrator of the Sydney attack was crazy, a meschugah. He had delusions, he had grievances, a chip on his shoulder. It was a tragedy that he had a gun and could kill, but it seems that he acted alone. The Paris murderers were different. The three men were part of a network with associates, and were radicalised by irresponsible hate speeches by religious leaders who were prepared to put other people in harm's was while sheltering behind a general tolerance of extremes of religious expression. They were also bumblers, schlemiels, who knew whom they set out to kill, but had to go knocking on doors to find them. This is not how well prepared terrorists work. They wanted to be killed, be martyrs, but to be martyrs they would have had to die for a cause. Murdering people attending an editorial meeting, because the killers and they hate inspired leaders took exception to cartoons published in the satirical magazine is not a cause. Some said that the attack was response to provokation, but drawing a cartoon which expresses an obvious truth is not provocation. As to the comment of the eminent Maori broadcaster and political wannabe, Derek Fox, that it was 'Utu', what was it 'Utu' for, who was the injured party? Throw in a Maori word and you can completely devalue the meaning of language. And who provoked whom, what was the rationale behind the murder in a kosher supermarket. Buying kosher meat is not a slight on the Prophet. Let's not call such killers 'terrorists', fighters in a cause. They are cold-blooded murderers. They came from Algiers, from Morocco, enjoyed the tolerant acceptance of French society, almost certainly benefited from the largess of French tax payers, received a French education, probably received welfare benefits, and had the arrogance to exploit and abuse French democracy. They went to Yemen not to learn from great Islamic scholars, but to learn how to kill, how to use a gun. To understand their action and what happened in Paris we have to use plain simple language and not camouflage the atrocity behind words that have no meaning in the context. Murder is murder, killers are criminals.