Newsweek 4/8/2016

Lahore, Pakistan—Pakistani Christian women mourn a victim of the suicide bombing that killed at least 70 people and injured more than 300 others at a park in the city on Easter Sunday, March 27. Dozens of children were among the dead. The Pakistani Taliban’s Jamaat-ur-Ahrar faction, which once declared loyalty to the Islamic State militant group (ISIS), claimed responsibility for the attack, saying it was aimed at Christians, though many Muslims were also killed. It was the deadliest attack in Pakistan since a 2014 massacre of 134 schoolchildren in the city of Peshawar.…

Brussels—A girl adds her own message to the hundreds of others expressing love and grief on the walls of a public square the day after suicide bombings that killed 35 people and injured more than 300. Twin blasts rocked Zaventem airport just after 8 a.m. on March 22, and about an hour later, a bomb exploded in the Maelbeek metro station, near the headquarters of the European Union. Three bombers died in the attacks, and authorities released footage of a fourth suspected attacker who fled the airport without detonating his bomb. ISIS claimed responsibility for the attacks.…

Potocari, Bosnia-Herzegovina—Bida Smajlovic prays near a memorial for victims of the 1995 Srebrenica genocide on March 24, before watching a broadcast of the International Criminal Tribunal trial of Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic. Smajlovic lost her husband, brother and dozens of other family members in the 1995 Srebrenica massacre. Karadzic was found guilty of killing 8,000 Muslim men and boys during that event, as well as of nine other charges of genocide, and he was sentenced to 40 years in prison.…

Portland, Oregon—Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders faces off with a bird during a rally at the Moda Center on March 25. The Vermont senator dominated caucuses in the Pacific Northwest over Easter weekend, gaining more than 70 percent of the vote in Washington, Alaska and Hawaii. “We knew things were going to improve as we headed west,” Sanders told supporters in Madison, Wisconsin, which holds its primary April 5. That state will be a critical test for both Democratic candidates ahead of New York’s primary on April 19.…

ANYONE SURPRISED by the recent murderous attacks in Brussels has not been paying attention. Per capita, Belgium is Europe’s hotbed of young Muslims who travel to Syria to fight alongside the Islamic State militant group (ISIS) and then return home, often ready to kill. But these European residents are a different kind of extremist. They aren’t your dad’s Al-Qaeda and aren’t really even ISIS; pretending they are ignores the reality of the threat and provides ISIS with a propaganda coup it does not deserve. Many of these new-age killers were small children when the World Trade Center fell in 2001 and have spent much of their lives watching major wars in Afghanistan, Iraq and now Syria. Their knowledge of Islam is limited; they are more like jihadi hipsters than dedicated Islamists,…

SERGEI PESTOV was a passionate drummer. In the mid-1970s, he was a founding member of the Soviet rock group Zhar-Ptitsa (Fire-Bird), thrilling fans of the country’s nascent underground music scene with his frantic solos. Although, like many Soviet and Russian musicians, he never made a living from performing, he continued to pound the drums whenever he got the chance. On September 4, 2015, Pestov, then 57, had just put down his sticks after a jam session in a converted garage in Dubna, a small town near Moscow, when police officers burst in. The exact details of what happened next are the subject of an ongoing legal dispute between Russian law enforcement officials and lawyers representing Pestov’s family. But what is not disputed is this: The following morning, Pestov’s wife, Irina, discovered…