Same was done after the Boston bombing; we later learned that Dzhokhar was the product of a quintessentially American experience.
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Even to the degree that belief in Islam motivated his actions -- American Islam can take on its own peculiarly American pathologies.
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None of this is to deny that foreign-originating influences might have impinged on him -- just that they fuse with American influences.
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Nor is it to deny that religious belief might've impelled him to do this. Anyone who'd flatly reject that prospect is a weird denialist.
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He reportedly made pilgrimage to Mecca and was described by a friend as "quite religious." Doesn't make him any less "American."
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Yeah, this analysis would not apply to someone like Atta.
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I got that
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that is an idiotic argument; the foreign influence of islamist ideology is the chief cause of these attacks
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This is for Americans to say. Why I'm keeping rather mum on this today. That, & I prefer to tweet data, not poli.
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I didn't say it was relevant to the shooting
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it was a point about jeet's comment about mateen's racism
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Not all..."quintessentially American" obviously means black tracksuits and portraits of Ruslan Baysarov.
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@SandraHelena39 I have a Ph.D. in political science. What makes you such an expert in comparative politics?@mtracey -
The facts
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