title: Investigating Religious Terrorism and Ritualistic Crimes
author:  Dawn Perlmutter 
description: "Don't touch anything, photograph everything, then pull this book out of the trunk of your car." - Charles Wetli, Chief Medical Examiner and Director of Forensic Sciences, Suffolk County, New York; Clinical Professor of Pathology at SUNY, Stony Brook
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  the international 
  catholic weekly
  23 March 2019  £3.60
  www.thetablet.co.uk est. 1840
  tablet
  Stop all the clocks
  Peter Hennessy and Julia Langdon survey the Brexit misery
  John Haldane and Anthony Kenny remember Elizabeth Anscombe  •  Peter Stanford meets James Runcie 
  Ann Wroe recommends Rilke  •  Ivor Roberts sees hope in the Balkans  •  Laura Keynes rejoices in motherhood
  PLUS  GUY CONSOLMAGNO  •  LAURA GASCOIGNE  •  CHRISTOPHER HOWSE  •  MARK LAWSON  •  MORAG MacINNES
  
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  ast week’s appalling atrocity in Christchurch, 
  New Zealand, in which a solitary gunman 
  killed 50 worshippers at two local mosques, is 
  a tragic reminder of the one-sided nature of 
  the battle against terrorism. In 1984, after the IRA 
  unsuccessfully attempted to kill Margaret Thatcher, it 
  issued a statement saying, “You have to be lucky all the 
  time. We only have to be lucky once.” The security 
  services are well aware of that. Their counter-terror 
  tactics seek to disrupt 