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“And then it’s almost always some crazed leftist or weird Islamicist that’s done it, and the left keeps saying, ‘If you expose us on the memo, there’ll be big massacres blamed on you.’

“Turkey no longer thinks in terms of left and right but secularist and Islamicist,” says Ayşe Öncü, professor emeritus of sociology at Istanbul’s Sabanci University.

Post 9/11 the skyscraper has been purged of its theological associations: Babel was indeed built, and Islamicist terrorists took God’s part and knocked it down.

Sochi also borders the North Caucasus, a hotbed of both Islamicist terror and Russian military brutality, infamous for terror attacks in Ingushetia and regular bombings in Dagestan and for the horrific Chechen wars of the last decades.

In this case, says Ibrahim Sarsur, the Islamicist mayor of Kfar Qasim, "the circle of bloodshed will not be broken."