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September 24, 2012

Not Just the Mideast, Asia's Raging Too

Niall Ferguson, Newsweek

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Rage is all the rage. As we all know, radical Muslims are enraged about blasphemous videos and cartoons—so much so that an American ambassador to a country liberated by the United States was murdered by a howling mob in Libya.

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