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Chechens, Larry. Chechens on Jihad.

Anyone who took Mr. Kurtz up on his foolhardy bet that the "GOP fringe" had something to do with the Boston marathon bombing is welcome to collect. It wasn't the T-as-in-Timothy McVeigh crowd; it was Chechens:

Chechens. Well, at least we know the United States won't be responding to this terrorist attack with a full-scale invasion of another country. Vladimir Putin will have none of that on his turf. Besides, the U.S. would never consider engaging in military action in a mountainous territory where Muslim insurgents have bogged down European imperialists for generations... would we?

Note to Pastor Hickey: The suspect police killed in a police firefight overnight, Tamerlan Tsarnaev, was big on boxing and worked out at a mixed martial arts gym, to which he drove in his Mercedes. He spoke of aspirations to make the United States Olympic boxing team... even though he said he didn't have a single American friend: "I don't understand them."

Update: Google "Tamerlan Tsarnaev" and you get this YouTube account, which includes a deleted playlist labeled "Terrorists" and a seven-video playlist labeled "Islam." That playlist includes "The Emergence of Prophecy: The Black Flags of Khorasan," an End-Timey video about Muslim warriors who will rise from the Iran-Afghanistan area to conquer Jerusalem. End-Timers of any faith are bound to be trouble. It also includes this diatribe about how Muslim women are superior to all others... fitting given his Italian-Portuguese girlfriend's conversion to Islam. Uh oh: cue Phil Jensen....

...also featured on Tamerlan Tsarnaev's playlist: a song by Timur Mutsuraev with this lyric: "Ты в этом бренном мире будь как странник / И жизнь свою джихаду посвяти." My rough translation: "Be in this mortal/perishing world like a wanderer / your life dedicated to jihad."

12 Comments

  1. Steve Hickey 2013.04.19

    MMA is the radical Islam of sports. Just kidding. Sounds like this guy was a boxer not a cage fighter. I don't know, a mix of martial arts wasn't the problem here--- sounds like it was a mix of angry Islam and some deep seated ethnic political animosities-- all fed, sustained and perhaps intensified wwith music and other violent entertainment. But I'm glad you are considering a variety of factors that fuel a persons propensity to be violent: including videos, music, pastimes, meds, religion, ethnic sect, politics and ideology, influences and associations. Even so, that MMA is on the list here isn't the surprise it would be if say... he was a Gandhi fan. Violence begets violence. I'm also glad we all aren't talking about background checks at Williams and Sonoma to stop such easy access to pressure cookers. (HT to Huckabee for that line). I look forward to the day the lion lays down with the lamb and violence is no more. :-) There won't be mma in the millennial kingdom. ;-) I should shut up before I get myself into trouble again.

  2. Bill Dithmer 2013.04.19

    The heck with that kurtz. Belinda is standing over me with a half a can of warm Dr. Pepper. She says I'm half wrong. Crow is looking pretty good right now.j

    The Blindman

  3. Bob Mercer 2013.04.19

    Cory,

    Great reporting on the YouTube playlist. I haven't heard any of that on the national reports yet. Find Curt Nickisch at WBUR radio (he's a SDPB alum) and get that to him.

  4. caheidelberger Post author | 2013.04.19

    The press has noted today that those two boys never lived in Chechnya; I heard on NPR that they were born in Kyrgyzstan. (This source says the younger brother was born in Dagestan, but they lived for some time in Kyrgyzstan.) In 1944, Stalin responded to a Chechen uprising by forcing Chechens to leave the North Caucusus and resettling them all over the USSR (see Operation Lentil). Tsarnayev's forebears would have been part of this forced diaspora.

    Meanwhile, Chechnya's president and close Putin ally Ramzan Kadyrov says the violence is our fault:

    "Any attempt to draw a connection between Chechnya and Tsarnaevs — if they are guilty — is futile. They were raised in the United States, and their attitudes and beliefs were formed there. It is necessary to seek the roots of this evil in America. The whole world must struggle against terrorism — that we know better than anyone else. We hope for the recovery of all the victims, and we mourn with the Americans."

  5. Jana 2013.04.19

    I'm sure that the good people of the US of A will judge these perpetrators of terror the exact same way they judged the Irish Catholics of Timothy McVeigh's heritage.

  6. Jana 2013.04.19

    GOP Senator wants to change 5th Amendment...not so much the 2nd amendment.

    While we're at it, does anyone want to check out why the NRA fought to keep signature chemicals out of black powder so that explosives like the ones used at the Boston Marathon could be traced.

  7. Jana 2013.04.19

    Lindsey Graham

  8. caheidelberger Post author | 2013.04.20

    Remarkable. Arguing that gun background checks wouldn't have stopped the Tsarnaevs from carrying out their bombing is like arguing that drivers license exams wouldn't have stopped the Tsarnaevs from carjacking that SUV. Arguing that this violence is a result of sexual liberalism is like Sibby's turning every post into a rant about UNESCO and New Age Theology.

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