In the months leading up to last week’s New Zealand mosque massacre, the suspected gunman traveled through some of history’s most obscure battlegrounds between Christians and Muslims. He stopped off at an 11th-century monastery that was looted and destroyed during the Ottoman Empire. He visited a mountain pass where Bulgarians and Russians defeated the Ottomans in 1877 in a bloody battle.

Source: Wall Street Journal March 19, 2019 22:49 UTC