Took the day off today to reflect on the week's events. Specifically I am referring to Mohammod Youssuf Abdulazeez, the killer of four of our Marines.
The thing that is bothering me is the dismissive attitude about the level of his mental health and how he is just "another Muslim jihadist", as if that means we shouldn't care about the state of his mind.
Look at it from the other side. I am sure there are some who deride just "another Christian" too.
Doesn't make it right and it certainly helps no one. Do I have answers to bridge the divide? Of course I don't.
I am not excusing him for the murders. I am just saying that we need to look deeper into what happened in his mind. Sure he went to Jordan to visit family. Guess what? I went to South Dakota to visit family a couple months ago. Sure his family has a bit of a turbulent history. So did mine. You just cannot pin it on one or two items. He was clearly mentally ill and that is the tragedy that did not get dealt with.
My only point is that we have to stop being such self-involved animals. All of us.
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