badgenome said:
In response to a reporter's question, Tsarnaeva said that the older brother (who is now deceased) had recently become a devout Muslim, which she characterized as him starting to pray five times a day about two years ago. But it should be noted that the aunt doesn't believe her nephew had become an extremist: "He has a wife in Boston and from a Christian family, so you can't tie it to religion," she said. His uncle has said similar things. I'm not saying people who knew him expected him to turn terrorist. Like his aunt said, she doesn't believe he did it. I'm saying they noted a sudden increasing devotion to his religion. That is textbook jihadist behavior. Not jumping to conclusions is one thing. Pretending to be blind in the face of a mountain of evidence is another. |
That bit of evidence have family members denying he was some sort of terrorist.
And, it is IMMENSELY offensive for you to end up doing this... Devout Muslim = terrorist. If your thinking is that, you are guilt of stereotyping AT THE LEAST. And you saying you aren't saying it. Because you don't wait on things, you are saying it, and imply that devout Muslim means terrorist. Not that all terrorists are devout Muslims, but if the person is a devout Muslim OBVIOUSLY they would be a terrorist.
To say this would be akin to saying Fundamentalist Christians who are opposed to abortion, are abortion clinic bombers.
