badgenome on 20 April 2013
| Soleron said: That said I don't think these particular bombs were inspired by radical Islam. They didn't act like martyrs, and they didn't leave a public message that they'd done it like other groups do. I think it was more inspired by previous American bombings like Oklahoma. |
Methodologically, you mean? Because Timothy McVeigh attacked a government building because he hated the government. These guys attacked a marathon because... they're paleo dieters who think that endurance running goes against human evolution?
But nothing else rules out a jihadist motive. If they're a couple of unaffiliated lone wolves, then of course they don't have a propaganda wing to send out messages. They're also very Americanized, and American jihadists - John Allen Muhammad, Carlos Bledsoe, and other lesser known ones - tend to behave more like spree killers. Turning into splodey-dopes is more of an old country thing.
