Attempts to blame nebulous "foreign" influence for these attacks is a way to deny the peculiarly American pathologies that give rise to them
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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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