There have been many MSM articles this weekend (for example, this article at the NY Times) wondering about the “motives” of the terrorist brothers.

I agree with Daniel Greenfield at FrontPage Magazine. The motive is ridiculously obvious: Pan-Islamic global jihad. Duh!

No one at the MSM would be wondering about the motive of a white supremacist who bombed a Martin Luther King parade. Why the double standard? Is it possible that the liberals who run the MSM are so brainwashed by their own propaganda that they actually believe that Islam is a religion of peace, so nothing to do with Islam could possibly be a motive?

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Of course one can, and should, ask perhaps a more important question. Why would two young men from the United States start believing in the pan-Islamic global jihad movement?

No one at the MSM ever asks why young men from the United States would join the KKK. I think the assumption is that the KKK is pure evil, and only someone born evil would ever join the KKK, so it’s merely a symptom of being born evil.

But in fact, people join both religious movements and fringe movements for the same reasons. They are losers under the conventional (if not necessarily spoken-out-loud) definition of winners and loser, so they seek meaning in life by finding some movement that is bigger than themselves. If they had been born to a white nominally Christian family, they might have become Born Again Christians. But because they came from an Islamic background, they became religious Muslims instead of Born Again Christians.

Actually, it’s my guess that the older brother, who was more of a loser (although also more alpha) than the younger brother, first turned to jihadist Islam, and then he brought the younger brother under his wing.

We are lucky that there aren’t enough Muslims in the United States to form a critical mass that creates more jihadists. But we can’t count on luck for that to continue. Unless we cut off all immigration from Islamic countries, the number of Muslims in the United States might reach that dangerous critical mass.