Ian Johnson

Ian Johnson is a Pulitzer-winning Wall Street Journal reporter and the author of Wild Grass: Three Portraits of Change in Modern China. This piece is excerpted from A Mosque in Munich: Nazis, the CIA, and the Rise of the Muslim Brotherhood in the West. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt.
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JINING, CHINA - SEPTEMBER 28: (CHINA OUT) People wearing raincoats participate in 2014 Confucius Memorial Ceremony on September 28, 2014 in Jining, Shangdong province of China. Memorial ceremony to mark the 2,565th birthday anniversary of Confucius was held in Jining on Sunday. (Photo by ChinaFotoPress/ChinaFotoPress via Getty Images)

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