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Guest Commentato

Juan Cole

Juan Ricardo Cole is a public intellectual, prominent blogger and essayist, and the Richard P. Mitchell Collegiate Professor of History at the University of Michigan. Contact Mr. Cole.

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Guest Commentary

Can the Boston Bombings Increase our Sympathy for Iraq and Syria, for all such Victims?

By Juan Cole Guest Commentato

Whatever sick mind dreamed up this act did not manifest the essence of any large group of people. Terrorists and supremacists represent only themselves, and always harm their own ethnic or religious group along with everyone else.

The horrific bombings of the Boston Marathon produced inspiring images of a spirited, brave Boston refusing to be cowed. Some spectators surged forward toward the danger…

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