The suicide bombing at Manchester Arena should remind us that in the coming discussions about the perpetrators and what motivated their actions, we should not repeat the mistake of assuming they were rationally provoked by marginalisation or victimisation. Along with victim blaming, there are always a bevy of pseudo-explanations offered up as to why someone could be conditioned into becoming a religious fanatic prepared to murder innocent lives.
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