EditorialPeople gather on Oct. 22, 2020, to mourn at a memorial to Samuel Paty, who was beheaded by a militant Islamist, at the middle school where he taught in Conflans-Sainte-Honorine, France. (Dmitry Kostyukov/The New York Times)
EditorialPeople attend a ceremony honoring French teacher Samuel Paty near éragny, France, northwest of Paris, Saturday, Oct. 16, 2021, one year after Paty was beheaded by an Islamist fanatic for having shown caricatures of the Prophet Muhammad published by the satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo. (Dmitry Kostyukov/The New York Times)
EditorialA demonstration to protest the beheading of Samuel Paty, a teacher who showed caricatures of the Prophet Muhammad in a classroom lesson on free expression, in Paris, Oct. 18, 2020. (Dmitry Kostyukov/The New York Times)
EditorialA memorial on Oct. 22, 2020, for Samuel Paty, a teacher beheaded in a terrorist attack last year, outside his school in the suburbs of Paris. (Dmitry Kostyukov/The New York Times)
EditorialA woman and child view a memorial for Samuel Paty, the teacher beheaded in a terrorist attack last year, outside his school in Conflans-Sainte-Honorine, a suburb of Paris, on Oct. 22, 2020. (Dmitry Kostyukov/The New York Times)
EditorialA march last year in honor of Samuel Paty, a teacher who was beheaded by a man angered by Paty showing cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad in a class. (Dmitry Kostyukov/The New York Times)
EditorialA tribute to the slain teacher Samuel Paty at a bus stop in Conflans-Sainte-Honorine, France, Oct. 22, 2020, the town where he was killed. (Dmitry Kostyukov/The New York Times)