"The Tsarnaevs ... 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."

Unlike Mohamed Atta and the rest of the 9/11 hijackers who lived among us for only a very short time, just long enough to take flying lessons, the Tsarnaev brothers grew up here.  They went to school here.  They played sports, dated, married, had children, collected welfare and made their lives here for over a decade, long enough for one of the brothers to become an American citizen.  They had friends who thought they were very sweet, beautiful even.  They are genuinely the product of a certain kind of American culture. David Sirota got his wish, the Tsarnaevs were in a cultural sense white Americans.  They were HIS white Americans, the kind our current political and educational system produces: multicultural to the core.  That allowed the Tsarnaev brothers to be simultaneously Islamic Jihads and American kids, just like everyone else in Boston, who shocked their neighbors and friends by blowing them up.

Ilana Mercer at WND:

A Chechen leader offered some valuable insights about these "homegrown terrorists."

“[The] Tsarnaevs … 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 man makes a profound point. Here, and not in Chechnya, did the Tsarnaevs receive a liberal, lax, progressive education, emphasizing the wicked ways of the West and the righteousness of its “victims.” It is here in America that these invertebrates matured into aggrieved ignoramuses.

The Tsarnaevs were mere children when they came to the U.S. I’ll share some thoughts about that since I am an immigrant myself. My siblings and I were their age when we got here. Of course you absorb some of the attitudes of your parents, but you absorb more from the people around you. In many cases you reject your parents’ parochial attitude even as you are aware of your heritage and culture.

The Tsarnaevs were Muslims and most children internalize their parents’ religious orientation. They may not follow it or even rebel against but it becomes part of them.

But here’s the difference between the Tsarnaevs and me. I was raised in that part of the mid-West that was heartland America. The Boston Bomber Brothers were raise in that part of America that believes the American founding was sorely flawed. That modern America is morally corrupt. An America that, in Barack Obama’s words, needs to be fundamentally changed.

“A common faith and moral code once held this country together. But if we no longer stand on the same moral ground, after we have made a conscious decision to become the most racially, ethnically, culturally diverse people on earth, what in the world holds us together?

“The Constitution, the Bill of Rights? How can they, when we bitterly disagree on what they say?”

As to America’s ingenious and inspired founding documents aforementioned: The vast majority of the people in this variegated land remain ignorant of them. Or, if familiar with the Constitution and the Bill of Rights (or better still, the Federalist and Anti-Federalist Papers) – they’ll have been taught contempt for their framers and the philosophy these magnificent men espoused. When he hears parents, pedagogues, politicians and media sycophants pound on about the country’s Founding Fathers as the archetypical pale, patriarchal oppressors, a young man quickly learns to reject his adopted country’s heritage and look elsewhere for roots.

Many of the Americans you find in Cambridge - especially the ones in academia - view with scorn, in fact they view with the utmost suspicion signs of patriotism, love of country and love of our heritage expressed as “American exceptionalism.” When you have the President of our country denying that there is anything exceptional about America, how can you blame the Tsarnaevs from taking the disgust they have learned in America, combine that with the call to Islamic Jihad and set off bombs to kill and maim the infidels?

 

Don't blame the things the Tsarnaevs did on outside cultural influences.  The culture that inspired them is simply the fusion of Islam and the dislike that the Left has for America.