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Can you possibly tell me what the primary roles was? Is there anyone here who can honestly say that, if this had turned out to be some sort of wackadoodle from a WBC that this same guy would be lining up the same experts lamenting about how Christians are violent?
Islam might have had secondary role in Boston Marathon attacks - Metro - The Boston Globe
An emerging portrait of the brothers accused in the Boston Marathon bombings suggested that the older of the two, *Tamerlan Tsarnaev, embraced a more radical form of Islam in recent years.
But scholars cautioned Friday against concluding that the Tsarnaevs motives were purely religious. Tamerlan Tsarnaev, who was killed in a firefight with police early Friday morning, appeared to sympathize with Islamic extremists agitating for Chechen independence from Russia.
But family, neighbors, friends, and social media sources painted a complex picture of the brothers religiosity.
The story that seems to be developing here is more along the lines of standard alienated man goes out and commits atrocities, much more like the school shootings weve seen than organized Islamic insurgency, said Yuri Zhukov, a fellow at the Program on Global Society and Security at Harvard Universitys Weatherhead Center who studies extremism in the Caucasus.
Islam might have had secondary role in Boston Marathon attacks - Metro - The Boston Globe