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

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Backstory: Finding some solace amid the bloodshed in Christchurch and ColomboThe 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.