Many of my Indonesian friends had almost exactly the same reactions. We felt guilty for being relieved that the attacks were, as one put it, “in someone else’s country.” But it could have been here.

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A fresh outbreak of religious violence in Mumbai came as no surprise. But the scale of the attacks was a shock. It was unprecedented. There are no comparable cases, not even those icons of global ...