Reasons Charlie Hebdo was attacked in Paris?

I'm not an authority on this by any means but it appears that in the Middle East because their history is mostly tribal by nature, it is natural for another tribe (or nation) to be blamed for whatever someone in that tribe or nation does.

So, if I understand this correctly, because Paris and France allowed Charlie Hebdo to exist the Islamists who did this and hired those three men to do this (likely a price was paid by Al Qaeda Yemen to have these three men do this).

But, it also means that they likely consider France and Paris itself to blame for allowing Charlie Hebdo to exist.

A friend of mine who has a Master's degree in History of Religion was talking to me about this.

He was saying this "Tribal Accountability" extends even here to the U.S. For example, he was saying that Indian tribes often allow "Spontaneous Revelation" most commonly in people's dreams at night. However, if anyone in any tribe "Embarrasses the Tribe" with a really crazy revelation that doesn't work out often the whole tribe or at least that line of the tribe is punished for that behavior.

So, to understand this tribal way of thinking there is less individual accountability. But, since each person represents the tribe in this sense, anyone who embarrasses any tribe might cause the death of the whole tribe just like ISIL has killed whole Sunni and likely Shia tribes this year as well as whole Yazidi groups of people as well in this same context.

It is pretty confusing to me actually. And anything that happens in the Middle Eastern Tribes has actually nothing at all to do with Native American Tribes. However, I was trying to make the point about Tribal Accountability rather than individual accountability.

So, this is also what Mercy killings of girls who sleep with someone (or appear to have) when father's or brothers kill their daughter or sister when this is suspected. Because it embarrasses the whole tribe and creates further problems and deaths if they don't in that tribal context.

However, I don't agree with any of this, I'm just trying to explain the cultural thinking behind all of this.

Also, one of my majors in college was once "Cultural Anthropology" so I find the study of how different cultures think sort of interesting.