“The people could not take any more,” Ibtissam recalled, “the death of those two boys symbolized so much pain—pain that our nationality and religion made us different. Pain that this was not really our country.”

SEED: This could seed an essay on how symbolic deaths crystallize broader communal grievances about belonging and citizenship.

Khaled A. Beydoun, The New Crusades_ Islamopho…, loc. 700