Both President Obama and Francois Hollande have refused to connect the terrorism in the U.S., France, Australia, Canada and North Africa to Islamic Extremism.  This cognitive disconnect they continue to exhibit exists despite the terrorists themselves clearly proclaiming their intents and motives.
(Via Vocativ) A new video released by an official ISIS forum shows Amedy Coulibaly, the 32-year-old terrorist who murdered four men during the Hyper Cacher siege in Paris, declaring his loyalty to the Islamic State.

“I’m a soldier of the Caliphate [ISIS] since the beginning,” Coulibaly says in the video. “Our group was coordinated before the attack. France is a legitimate target because [of] what they are doing to us.”
Coulibaly explains how he helped the Kouachi brothers prepare for the attack: “We did a few things together and a few things separately to maximize the impact. I helped them by giving them a few thousand euros to buy what they needed.”
Coulibaly opens the video by stumbling over a script written in Arabic. He identifies himself using his jihadi nom de guerre, Abou Bassir Abdallah al-Ifriqi, and says, “You can’t attack us and expect us to sit still. You keep bombarding our civilians and soldiers just because we obey the Sharia law.”
At the end of the video, Coulibaly asks of other Muslims: “What do you do, my brothers, when the prophet keeps being insulted? I have been to a lot of mosques in France, particularly around Paris. They are full of young, fit men. How come so few stand up to defend our people?” (read more)