“Two Muslims walk into a Jewish supermarket” sounds like the opening of a joke Henny Youngman might have told on the old borscht belt circuit. Youngman, “The King of the One Liner”, would have been performing his act at a summer resort in the Jewish Alps or what many people refer to as the Catskills.

Unfortunately, after today’s events in Paris, it is not the prelude to a zinger but it’s the tale of another terrorist act on a soft target.

– Killing cartoonists.

– Two terrorists robbing a gas station with a rocket launcher comfortably relaxing in the backseat of their car.

– Making a political statement by taking hostages at a Jewish grocery store, because your Gefilte fish is too heavy on the matzo.

It all sounds a bit comical, surreal, or the plot of a B movie made by Golan-Globus, but these are the current state of affairs in Paris with the exception of a matzo heavy Gefilte fish.

Young adult fiction has been besieged by an endless supply of post-apocalyptic tales, but shouldn’t these same writers start looking at a post-jihadist world?

This week’s events in Paris may mark a tipping point in the consciousness of the Western world to the real threat of radical Islam, which equates cartoonists as suitable military targets in their war versus the West, but radical Islamic group, Boko Haram, has torched more than 10 villages in Nigeria and 2,000 people are missing in the last week. Americans and Europeans are fixated on events in Paris, but Boko Haram is an African killing machine.

Of course Boko Haram translates to “Western education is sinful”, but why write a novel about a post-jihadist world?