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Marc Fisher, writing in The Washington Post, has penned a thoughtful narrative of the Tsarnaev family’s life in the United States. Most interesting, perhaps, is the differing experiences of the two brothers, Ruslan and Anzor (the latter being the father of the accused Boston Marathon bombers, Tamerlan and Dzhokhar). Read it here.

Suhaib Webb and Scott Korb, writing in today’s New York Times point out what many of us know: “radicalization does not happen to young people with a strong grounding in the American Muslim mainstream.” Bottom line? “The American Muslim community has actively and repeatedly, day in and day out, rejected such radicals on religious grounds:…

“I would like our community to take responsibility for how it is that we — yes, we — have allowed an interpretation of Islam to prevail in this world that turns this boy of innocence into a bomber and murderer,” writes Asra Q. Nomani. “We need to work with compassion and love to guide these…

The New York Times has a poignant editorial about immigrant children in today’s issue. “Taking in what Emma Lazarus called the ‘wretched refuse’, including asylum seekers like the Tsarnaev brothers, without providing a scaffold of support undermines the promise of America.” write Marcelo M. Suárez-Orozco and Carola Suárez-Orozco in “Immigrant Kids, Adrift” (read it all…
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