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Here Comes the Post-Boston Anti-Muslim Paranoia

The Tsarnaev brothers don't provide an easy answer for how to stop something like the Boston marathon bombing to ever happen again. That leaves the Tsnarnaevs' religion — and, apparently, all the liberals who think religious profiling is a bad idea.

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The Tsarnaev brothers don't provide an easy answer for how to stop something like from ever happening again. We can't go to war with their country of origin. The men were ethnically Chechen, but Chechnya is a part of Russia, which is definitely not sponsoring terrorism there, since Russians are the usual targets of it. We weren't legally to follow up on Russia's request about the older brother. We can't blame a group since the younger one they acted alone. We're already ending the wars he now says motivated them. And we certainly can't stop the thing that appears to have radicalized them: The Internet, and . We can't even say

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