Robert Spencer

Jul 21, 2014

Azamat Tazhayakov could be a fool. A dupe. Or as his defense attorneys have it, a “good kid.” A “mama’s boy.” Or he could be a true believer like his friend Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, hindering the investigation not solely out of loyalty to his friend, but because he believed in the same cause — that of jihad and Islam — that motivated Tsarnaev to commit mass murder at the Boston Marathon. But this question was evidently not broached at his trial, as illuminating as it may have been of Tazhayakov’s motives and actions. To have investigated such questions would have been “Islamophobic.”

“Friend of Boston Marathon bombing suspect found guilty,” by Richard A. Serrano, Los Angeles Times, July 21, 2014 (thanks to Darcy):

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