From NPR, this morning, from Paris:

"They're very resolute and unified behind the government and the hostages. They're calling for the release of the hostages, but there's not a question that France would recind that law because that would be succumbing to blackmail. Politicians from the right and the left have come together to make a unified front. Muslim leaders have come together. The country is speaking with one voice. They are saying, 'We are all hostages.' The country, in fact, has been taken hostage. . . .

What's really interesting is that even groups that were vociferously against this headscarf ban, they're coming out and they're telling girls, 'Go to school. Take off your veil. Follow the laws of the French Republic.' They're saying, 'If we want to change this law, we're going to do it in legal ways. We don't need some outside group threatening to kill people to change it.'"