Published: mic (April 20, 2013) Now that the world knows that the Boston Marathon bombers were Tamerlan and Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, let's take a moment to reflect on who was NOT responsible. It wasn't that Saudi Arabian guy who was blamed on the first day. It wasn't the...
Right-Wing Terrorism Was Enabled and Ignored By Conservative Pundits, GOP
Apr 15, 2013 | Conservativism, Extremism, Political Ideologies, Political Parties, Republicans, Terrorism
Published: The Morning Call (April 15, 2013), mic (April 16, 2013) Editor's note: This article was written before the Boston Marathon bombings, and is not intended to be a response to that incident. All commentary in this article is on pre-Boston incidents alone and...
There’s Nothing More Pathetic Than a Pennsylvania Bigot in 2013
Mar 23, 2013 | Extremism, Pennsylvania, Political Ideologies, Race and Racism, Religion and Religious Issues, Terrorism
Published: mic (March 23, 2013), The Express Times (March 23, 2013) From neo-Nazis and the Ku Klux Klan to the Nation of Islam and the Black Panthers, there is nothing more inherently pathetic than a bigot in the commonwealth of Pennsylvania. This isn't to say that...
On Somali Terrorism
Mar 27, 2012 | Foreign Policy, Terrorism, World Affairs
Published: PolicyMic (March 27, 2012) Of all my experiences as a graduate student, none can match the time I spent as a teaching assistant for Said Samatar. A professor of African History at Rutgers University-Newark, Samatar is the kind of scholar every up-and-coming...