article_snippet.sent: Before my time, the brutal Soviet invasion of Afghanistan horrified many Muslims.
article_snippet.sent: When I was in high school, Bosnia occupied all our attention.
article_snippet.sent: Russia's brutal war on the Chechen people — Dzhokhar shares Russia's brutal war on the Chechen people — Dzhokhar name with a recent Chechen patriot --  and Israel's ongoing occupation of the Palestinian territories.
article_snippet.sent: There was Serbia's war on Kosovo, another war in Chechnya, the invasion of Iraq, oppression in Myanmar, civil strife in Syria, the colonization of East Turkestan, massacres of Muslims in the Central African Republic, wars on a besieged Gaza and West Bank still under Israeli rule.
article_snippet.sent: Countless places where co-religionists have been killed, and nobody seems to do anything about it.
article_snippet.sent: When I was a teenager, our Massachusetts mosque hosted a delegation from Bosnia that shared graphic, heartbreaking stories of rape, exile, and massacre inflicted on Muslims, all because of Muslims faith.
article_snippet.sent: our Massachusetts mosque raised money, collected food, blankets, medicine.
article_snippet.sent: As we all left our Massachusetts mosque, my peers and I were disgruntled and confused.