Islamic radicalism seems to have motivated the elder of the Tsarnaev brothers to carry out the Boston bombing. Meanwhile, many media reports have indicated that Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, the younger of the two Boston bombers, was not as deeply committed to Islam. Yet Charles C. Johnson of The Daily Caller argues that the media hasn’t paid enough attention to Dzhokhar Tsarnaev’s connection to the Muslim Student Association at UMass Dartmouth.
Coverage of the Boston Marathon bombing has ignored admitted bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev’s connection to his college’s Muslim Student Association, a group that has close relations with both the Muslim Brotherhood and a local imam friendly with an al-Qaida operative.
Although a student leader and the mainstream media have downplayed Tsarnaev’s ties to the the group, Tsarnaev associated frequently with the Muslim Student Association (MSA) at University of Massachusetts-Dartmouth.
The Washington Post on April 27 reported that Tsarnaev, who has admitted his role in the Marathon terrorist bombing to police, played intramural soccer with MSA members, contradicting earlier reports that the U. Mass-Dartmouth student spurned an invitation to join the controversial Muslim Brotherhood-linked student organization.
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