Islamism Killed My Partner. Why Won’t the West Fight It?

Carine Azzopardi, with her partner Guillaume Barreau-Decherf, and their two daughters. (Photo courtesy of the author)
My daughters have grown up without a father because of an ideology that Western politicians now often refuse to name.
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On the evening of November 13, 2015, I recorded a video of my partner, Guillaume, laughing and dancing round the living room with our two daughters, aged four and seven. Just a few minutes later, he left our apartment in eastern Paris to go to the Bataclan concert hall.
A rock critic who wrote under the name Guillaume B. Decherf, he loved nothing more t…
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