Drawing Parallels Between The Paris Attacks And The Boston Marathon Bombings

France is in mourning over last Friday’s terrorist attacks on Paris that killed at least 129 people and left hundreds more injured. President Francois Hollande has vowed to “destroy” the so-called Islamic State. A very public expression of raw anger and sense of vulnerability is felt on the streets of Paris right now.

Those feelings are familiar to Boston.

Jim Walsh, research associate at MIT and a contributor to WBUR’s and Jocelyn Jocelyne Cesari, professor of religion and politics at the University of Birmingham and director of Harvard University’s Islam in the West Program.

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