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...week before the blaze, hundreds of hate crimes were committed throughout Europe against Jews, Muslims, Roma, Pakistanis and Africans. On Nov. 10, German police discovered a large black swastika painted on the wall of an empty factory building in Marienwerder Brandenburg. On Nov. 14, a box of six Molotov cocktails was found outside a synagogue in Ivry-sur-Seine, just south of Paris. On Nov. 15, this message appeared on a web forum hosted in the Netherlands, according to Magenta, a watchdog group in Amsterdam: "Just throw that Muslim vermin, those f___ing Muslim rats out of the country...
...then, is the U.S. losing friends in Asia? Last month, South Korean students hurled Molotov cocktails onto U.S. military bases while in Pakistan mourners thronged the streets for the funeral of a man who murdered two CIA employees. A recent survey by Washington D.C.'s Pew Research Center confirmed that over the past two years America's image has slipped in 19 out of 27 nations worldwide, including South Korea, Japan and Indonesia. In other Asian nations it held up, barely. In India, for example, only 54% of the population said they liked America, in Bangladesh even fewer...
Columbine is a Molotov cocktail of interviews, cartoons, news footage and righteous rabble-rousing. It is also a road movie in search of the troubled soul of America. As Moore told TIME: "It's a film about why we're so violent toward each other, and why we tend to export a lot of this violence around the world. Because otherwise we're actually pretty good people...
...divine comfort of a Taliban soldier's dream, which promised that somebody would come for them in seven days. They counted each setting sun until, just as foretold, a rescuer freed them. Another time, while learning from al-Qaeda terrorists how to fire shoulder-launched grenades and ignite Molotov cocktails for the glory of jihad, Lindh witnessed the shooting death of a fellow believer. The smell of musk filled the air, and he recalled the teaching of the prophets that martyrs emit their essence upon death...
...since September. A total of 37 were killed last year, 24 the year before. Journalists are sometimes naive about their own safety, prone to an illusion that they are either bulletproof or invisible. In the mid-'60s, I walked blithely through the mobs during a riot in Harlem, with Molotov cocktails sailing off the roofs of apartment houses. I imagined that as a journalist, I was merely an invisible witness, as harmless as a recording secretary, as if I had letters of transit allowing me to pass between cops and rioters completely without consequence. The rioters left me alone...