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The Ideology of an Ariana Grande Concert

Her career of female self-determination demonstrates the rights of religion, sexuality, and expression that much terrorism seeks to undo.
Source: Chris Pizzello / AP

Among the many sickening aspects of the bombing 22 people at an Ariana Grande concert in Manchester, England, Monday night is the sense of a pattern. Ever since the November 2015 Paris attacks that claimed lives at a rock concert and soccer match, violent Islamic extremists have continued making mass entertainment events one of their primary targets. There was the Pulse massacre in Orlando and the street-festival truck attack

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