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On May 22, 2017, an American pop-star named Ariana Grande played a concert at the Manchester Arena in the north of England. The target market for Ms. Grande’s music is young girls, thousands of whom were in attendance. They became targets of a different kind. Salman Abedi was a young Muslim man, and one would not ordinarily expect him to be attending such an example of Western decadence. But he went anyway. He wore a large black back-pack, which his father had helped him to pack. He must have looked out of place, and even suspicious. (more…)
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