Thursday, March 23, 2023

Tag: Boston Marathon bombing

Top 10 Ways Islamic Law Forbids Terrorism

This week Dzhokhar Tsarnaev was convicted on all counts in the Boston Marathon bombings. However, there was not much Muslim recognizable in his and his brother's style of life. Here are 10 ways that the Tsarnaev brothers broke Muslim law, according to Juan Cole.

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