When Fazιl came to join us at the table, he said he’d heard similar stories; he’d also heard that those same young Islamists were following the same path Blue had taken on his own pilgrimage. They’d escaped to Germany, where they founded a fast-growing radical Islamist group in Berlin; according to Fazιl’s old classmates from the religious high school, they’d written a statement—published on the first page of a German-based journal called Pilgrimage—in which they’d vowed revenge against those responsible for Blue’s death.
