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Originally Posted by HalveBlue
Finally a thread I can reply to.
Having grown up in the Salt Lake City area I can assure that the FBI's thoughts on the motive are more than likely accurate.
The kid was from South Salt Lake, which has a relatively high concentration of Bosnians immigrants.
More than likely him being Muslim was incidental. The Bosnian refugees in the Salt Lake area aren't very devout as far as I can recollect.
If anything this is just one more individual in the angry/confused emo youth crowd that sought to take out their anger and sadness on others. Sort of like Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold.
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In today's world, I do not believe being Muslim and executing innocents is "incidental". You are certainly correct in pointing out that the Bosnian Muslims are not known as fundamentalists.
But we have seen Americans fall prey to fundamentalist propoganda. Adam Gadahn aka Azzam the American, John Walker Lindh, Joey Padilla aka The Dirty Bomber, Ryan Anderson, and Richard Reid aka The Shoe Bomber. There was also the Muslim soldier that killed fellow American soldiers by tossing a grenade. Read the bios on these individuals and you will see that they too were not fundamentalist Muslims.
My point being, his being Muslim would be the first theory I would consider when looking for motive.