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Reader comment on item: The Myth of Self-Radicalization

Submitted by Patrick Dunleavy, Apr 22, 2013 10:38

PMH Dayton, I appreciate your assessment of the Boston Bomber Brothers. Why the main stream media continues to use this terminology in an attempt to explain a terrorist's action is beyond me. It not only confuses the American public but it alleviates responsibility to those individuals who in some way, either by word or deed, assisted the Tsarnaev brothers down the road to becoming radical Islamic jihadists. They were not "self-radicalized". Radicalization is a process that involves internal as well as external factors.

Sincerely, Patrick Dunleavy

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