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{Boston Bomber} Tamerlan Tsarnaev Had Right-Wing Extremist Literature
You can't make this shit up.
http://readersupportednews.org/news-section2/318-66/18759-focus-tamerlan-tsarnaev-had-right-wing-extremist-literature
amerlan Tsarnaev subscribed to publications espousing white supremacy and government conspiracy theories.
He also had reading material on mass killings. Until now the Tsarnaev brothers were widely perceived as just self-styled radical jihadists.
'Government conspiracies'
Tamerlan Tsarnaev possessed articles which argued that both 9/11 and the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing were government conspiracies. Another in his possession was about "the rape of our gun rights". Reading material he had about white supremacy commented that "Hitler had a point". Tamerlan Tsarnaev also had literature which explored what motivated mass killings and noted how the perpetrators murdered and maimed calmly. There was also material about US drones killing civilians, and about the plight of those still imprisoned in Guantanamo Bay.
'A Muslim of convenience'
The Tsarnaev brothers, ethnic Chechens, spent their early years moving around a troubled region of Russia torn by a violent Islamic insurgency. But for the last decade they lived in Cambridge, near Boston. The brothers' friends told us Tamerlan turned against the country and became passionate about Islam after becoming frustrated when his boxing career faltered because he did not have American citizenship. Their friends wouldn't all speak openly because they were afraid of being wrongly viewed as associated with terrorism. 'Mike' spent a lot of time in the brothers' flat. "He (Tamerlan) just didn't like America. He felt like America was just basically attacking all Middle Eastern countries...you know trying to take their oil."
A spokesperson for Tamerlan's mosque in Cambridge, Nicole Mossalam, said Tamerlan only prayed there occasionally. She portrayed him as an angry young man who latched onto Islam.
"As far connecting with the Islamic community here, to actually praying, being involved, doing acts of charity....all of those were pretty much lacking. I would say he was just a Muslim of convenience," she said.
He also had reading material on mass killings. Until now the Tsarnaev brothers were widely perceived as just self-styled radical jihadists.
'Government conspiracies'
Tamerlan Tsarnaev possessed articles which argued that both 9/11 and the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing were government conspiracies. Another in his possession was about "the rape of our gun rights". Reading material he had about white supremacy commented that "Hitler had a point". Tamerlan Tsarnaev also had literature which explored what motivated mass killings and noted how the perpetrators murdered and maimed calmly. There was also material about US drones killing civilians, and about the plight of those still imprisoned in Guantanamo Bay.
'A Muslim of convenience'
The Tsarnaev brothers, ethnic Chechens, spent their early years moving around a troubled region of Russia torn by a violent Islamic insurgency. But for the last decade they lived in Cambridge, near Boston. The brothers' friends told us Tamerlan turned against the country and became passionate about Islam after becoming frustrated when his boxing career faltered because he did not have American citizenship. Their friends wouldn't all speak openly because they were afraid of being wrongly viewed as associated with terrorism. 'Mike' spent a lot of time in the brothers' flat. "He (Tamerlan) just didn't like America. He felt like America was just basically attacking all Middle Eastern countries...you know trying to take their oil."
A spokesperson for Tamerlan's mosque in Cambridge, Nicole Mossalam, said Tamerlan only prayed there occasionally. She portrayed him as an angry young man who latched onto Islam.
"As far connecting with the Islamic community here, to actually praying, being involved, doing acts of charity....all of those were pretty much lacking. I would say he was just a Muslim of convenience," she said.
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