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Ten years ago, on April 15, 2013, a brilliantly sunny Monday afternoon, the Boston Marathon was drawing to a close when two nail bombs exploded in quick succession. They killed two people and wounded well over two hundred, maiming some for life. Before the identity of the bombers became known, the establishment media was full of joyful hope that the killers would turn out to be the Bible-quoting Christian terrorists of media myth. Instead, they were Islamic jihadis. As the tenth anniversary of their attack approaches, the same denial still prevails: no one in America wants to discuss why they did it.
Various media retrospectives don’t even attempt to discuss the bombers’ motive. The Washington Post came closest on Thursday when it did the common perpetrator-to-victim shift, claiming that bomber Tamerlan Tsarnaev “may have felt victimized because he was Muslim.” Also on Thursday, NBC Boston told a heartwarming love story of a firefighter and a woman he aided that day, but remained mum about why the bombing happened. On Friday, MassLive published a lengthy piece about the lessons that have been learned from the bombing, but apparently, none of those lessons have anything to do with why the bombing happened in the first place. ABC News focused on the psychological scars of some of the survivors but said nary a word about what might have led anyone to want to inflict such scars.
This willful ignorance began on the very day of the bombings. On that day, Charles P. Pierce in Esquire was one of the first of many to caution against thinking that the marathon had just been the site of a jihad attack (“foreign terrorism”) and to try to link the bombings to patriots: “Obviously, nobody knows anything yet, but I would caution folks jumping to conclusions about foreign terrorism to remember that this is the official Patriots Day holiday in Massachusetts, celebrating the Battles at Lexington and Concord, and that the actual date (April 19) was of some significance to, among other people, Tim McVeigh, because he fancied himself a waterer of the tree of liberty and the like.” Yeah, that’s it.
Also at that time, CNN’s national security analyst, Peter Bergen, speculated that if “conventional explosives” had been used, “that might be some other kind of right-wing extremists,” as opposed to Al Qaeda. He reminded viewers that “we’ve also seen other extremist groups attacking, right-wing groups, for instance trying to attack the Martin Luther King parade in Oregon in 2010.” Most egregiously of all, David Sirota hoped in Salon that the bomber would turn out to be a “white American.” Sirota got his wish. The killers were indeed white — actual Caucasians. They were two brothers from the Caucasus, Tamerlan Tsarnaev and his younger brother Dzhokhar, who was a naturalized American citizen.
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Rob (Robin) Blair Harris says
‘Victimised’. The brothers received every possibile benefit from US taxpayers. Health, education etc
Walter Sieruk says
It’s now been ten years since that malicious despicable jihad terror murder bombing on that Boston Street of the day of the Boston Marathon in which three innocent people were killed and many other had been severely injured on April 15, 2013.
Those two Muslim brothers, the Tasrnaevs, who are also jihadist/Muslims who planted those bombs in doing so were engaging in hard core Qu ‘ran based Islam and not some kind of “hijacked” or “warped” form of Islam as so many of the different apologists for Islamic so falsely claim in their attempt to hide the violent and deadly aspect of Islam from public knowledge.
As the Quran gives instructions to dedicated jihad-minded Muslims in Surah 47:4. “Whenever you encounter the disbelievers strike off their heads until you make a great slaughter among them…”
The use of planted bombs among a crowd of people is a much more effective method of making a “great slaughter among them “ than a sword can was used in Islam’s old historical days of a sword in the jihad .
Likewise the Qu ‘ran in Surah 9:123 instruct “O you who believe! Fight those of the disbelievers who are close to you, and let them find harshness in you…”
Here again the Qu ‘ran’s instruction had been followed by the jihadist brothers. For bombs are a ruthless way to show harshness to people who aren’t Muslims.
Some of those people harmed maimed victims of the Islamic terror attack even lost limbs as a result of those bombs. That is, indeed, very harsh.
There are many other places in the Qu ‘ran that give instructions for violence and killing for the cause of Islam. Some of them are, for example 2:191. 4:89. 5:33. 9:5, 111,112.
Nevertheless, in spite of all the facts of reality there are still some people who have put on their religious blinders in, as in a mental state of denial and keep on making the claims that “Islam is a non-violent peaceful religion.”
That claim is complete and total balderdash.
Walter Sieruk says
Many Americans, sadly, have a short memory. Some of us have forgotten about the horrendous Islamic terror murder bombings in the city of Boston ten years ago.
Still none of us should forget. We may be sure that the families of the three victims murdered by those jihadists who planted those bombs haven’t forgotten .Likewise the family of that police officer murdered by one those two Muslim terrorists haven’t forgotten. As well as the people who lived through it but have been severely maimed for life along with their families will also remember that heinous malicious and murderous Islamic terrorist evils of that day.
Walter Sieruk says
Some naive Westerners who don’t understand the violent and deadly essence of Islam might stop and wonder and then ask “Since those two Muslim brothers .Tamerlan and Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, were so very religious how then could they be so very despicable heartless vicious as to plant those bombs on that street of the very day of the Boston Marathon April 15, 2013 ? “
The answer to that question is found in the Bible. Which informs its reader that some men are so very callous and unfeeling because they have had “their conscience seared with a hot iron.” First Timothy 4: 2. [K.J.V.]
In this specific situation that “hot iron” is Islam.
Walter Sieruk says
If he is a “lone wolf “ jihadist stabber of shooter and or jihadists ,as in a group of an Islamic terror entity, as in the history of those horrendous murderous and destructive jihad terror affront attacks which occurred in Boston during that city’s marathon on April 13, 2013 , it’s based on Qu’ran based Islam.
For what is assumed by many people view “Radical Islamic Terrorism” to be a “warped” or “hijacked” form of Islam. Yet the terrible harsh reality is that the actual religion of Islam is the entire foundation of Islamic terrorism or otherwise accurately, but seldom called what is really is, which is “Muslim terrorism.”
For Islam’s “holy book” the Qur ‘an [the Koran] instructs on the use of violence and killing for the advancement of Islam.
As found in ,for example 2:191. 4:89. 5:33. 9:5,111,123. 47:4. Furthermore, it may be illustrated that if Islam is represented as a tree then the fruits then the fruits of that tree are the many brutal, violent and deadly jihad.
With this statement, the Wisdom of the teachings of Jesus may, very much, apply to this subject. For Jesus taught “Ye do know them by their fruits. Do men gather grapes of thorns, or figs of thistles? Even so every good tree bringeth forth good fruit; but a corrupt tree bringeth forth evil fruit. A good tree cannot bring forth evil fruit, neither can a corrupt tree bring forth good fruit.” After saying this Jesus told them what He told them when He said “By their fruit ye shall know them.” Matthew 7:16, 17, 18,.20. [K.J.V.]
In conclusion, Islam is a corrupt tree and also a false religion, Proverbs 14:12. John 14:6. First John 2:22,23. 4:14,15. 5:12,13,20.
rubiconcrest says
Well done Walter. I have not forgotten. Of the wounded and families having to deal with death and those permanently maimed not enough is ever said. Any religion that condones such barbarous acts cannot be called a religion.
The problem is even Muslims are fooled by Islam’s duality. We have to deal with the evil in Islam without casting aside the foolish believers. No civilization has found a way to do it. That is the problem we have to solve for everyone’s sake.
James Lincoln says
rubiconcrest says,
“The problem is even Muslims are fooled by Islam’s duality. We have to deal with the evil in Islam without casting aside the foolish believers.”
I’m not sure that it is even doable.
It would be like trying to deal with the evil in Nazi-ism without casting aside the Nazis.
In 1945, the conquering Allied powers took control of Germany and banned the the Nazi party.
Burnaby Lad says
Pasta didn’t beat Esposito’s 61 goal record
the Bruins need to show
Walter Sieruk@yahoo.com says
In the 2016 movie entitled Patriots Day which is supposed to give a very accurate account of those horrible and tragic events that occurred om April 15, 2013 on the main street of the Boston Marathon in which two Muslim terrorists planted maliciously bombs that exploded and killed three people and maimed many more.
In the movie that Muslim wife of that murderous jihadist, Tamerlan Tsarnaev was later quested at the police station and she was also informed that her husband is now dead and that she will never see him again. To that, she replied that he had kissed her “just before he left” Meaning to plant those bombs, then added that he will kiss her again “in the future in paradise.”
By her own words, she showed just strongly she is under the spell of the deception of the false religion of Islam, with its lies, false doctrines and bogus promises with its story of a paradise for the jihadist who had died in the blood and violent jihad for the cause of Islam.
The Bible even warns against being taken in , as in beguiled , by untrue religious stories As the Bible warns against giving “heed to fables” First Timothy 1:4. [K.J.V.]
In reality, she will never see her husband again because he’s now trapped ad suffering in the fires of hell. <like 16:23-31. Galatians 5:21.
Hopefully, she is still rather young, so she might , in time, come to realize what a demonic hoax Islam actually is.
As for her dead husband, Tsarnaev, it’s too late for him, he discovered about the false promises of Islam in the very most severe hardest way.