For the clerics in Iran, Syria is a useful hedge against their immediate neighbors, allowing them to perpetrate much mischief without being formally charged.
Opportunistic assaults perpetrated without much thought for how open or crowded their settings are, drive-bys sometimes hit no one and sometimes strike many.
They are a mixture of the old and the new, but even the old are now perpetrated in a much more pernicious and malign way, generating deeper and more damaging wounds to the democratic process.
And in the murky world of Gaza lawlessness, Alan's kidnapping could have been perpetrated by pretty much anyone with a small militia to back them up (increasingly easy to hire in Gaza these days), and a laundry list of motives to choose from.
While it isn't yet confirmed, evidence points to the attack that we saw on Friday morning following this same playbook, but being perpetrated on a much larger scale, relying on Internet of Things (IoT) devices rather than computers and servers to carry out an attack.
Sources differ regarding how much of this was perpetrated by ZANLA personnel and how much by ZIPRA men; each side blamed the other.
It is therefore likely that the actual numbers of incidents of hate crimes against Muslims perpetrated in 2013 was much higher.
I (we) are upset by this along with so much more perpetrated by "he, him, they, or them".
And here we are as a nation, again, trying to make sense of senseless violence and horror, and it really doesn't matter much who perpetrated it or what their motive.
"The course has the potential to be revolutionary insofar as the students who take it will come away with a wide ranging critical framework for thinking through not only what happened in Ferguson (and elsewhere), but also why we continue to see so much violence perpetrated against poor people of color," Coffey told The Huffington Post.
