The noose was already swinging when the young man asked for his mother. She came. He bit her ear off. Then he told the crowd why. That’s an old story, and most people who hear it judge him. They shouldn’t. Not yet. Because there’s a version of that story happening right now, in real time, with real money and real human beings, and the mother in it has lots of names. Oslo. Brussels. London. Washington. She’s been handing out prizes for 30 years to men who hijack planes, blow up buses, and drag children into tunnels. She calls it compassion...
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Here is the illustrated tale.
