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The recent shootings in Tucson and the Pakistani Governor's brutal assassination invite some unsettling parallels regarding the nature of fanaticism in the U.S. and Pakistain. In the case of Pakistan, we see fanatical Islam woven so tightly into the fabric of the moral culture that many, even middle-class, well-educated citizens, have risen up to support the massacre of a governor who had made statements that disagreed with the moral and legal code of a significant amount of Pakistanis. In Arizona, although the case and motive for the attack on Representative Giffords are still relatively unclear, Sheriff Dupnik's statement suggesting that a vitriolic political atmosphere has implications as a motive serves as the basis for my comparison.
