Backstory: Finding some solace amid the bloodshed in Christchurch and Colombo

The gunman in Christchurch had names written down the side of his rifle evoking past crusades by Christians against Muslims. As I crisscrossed Sri Lanka in the back of a sport utility vehicle last week, though, I wondered about investing too much in the similarities, of seeing them as a part of an inevitable string of modern terror. In Christchurch, I wrote about Ibrahim Abdelhalim.

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