What’s the Difference Between McVeigh and Tsarnaev?
Posted: April 22, 2013
By Andrew Rosenthal, New York Times Taking Note Blog
“The argument that we should treat Mr. Tsarnaev as an enemy combatant boils down to his religion and his ethnic origin. This is the kind of logic that led the United States to imprison Japanese-Americans during World War 2, and to far worse acts of ethnically and racially motivated violence in other countries. Should the Boston police be rounding up every Chechen who lives in the area and turning them over to the military for questioning?”
Tags: ethnic origin, McVeigh, religion, Tsarnaev