The cover of the latest issue of Charlie Hebdo features a cartoon of the Prophet Muhammad. It has been widely reproduced but such grand gestures put at risk the task of building alliances to achieve real change for the victims of terror Once we have started coming to terms with the shock and justified fury over the Paris massacre, and the bloodshed and chaos that ­followed it, there are two large ironies we ought to think about if we are to have any hope of responding in a way that might change anything. The first is – as it was on 9/11, as it is in videos of terrorists with their victims – the curious blasphemy of proclaiming that “God is great” as some kind of rationale for this sort of butchery. A God who needs to be defended by human beings in a state of m