Tamerlan thrown out of mosque for shouting at Imam who was praising MLK as a man to emulate.

[dkf]

Tamerlan Tsarnaev was thrown out of the mosque -- the Islamic Society of Boston Cultural Center -- about three months ago, after he stood up and shouted at the imam during a Friday prayer service, they said. The imam had held up slain civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. as an example of a man to emulate, recalled one worshiper who would give his name only as Muhammad.

Enraged, Tamerlan stood up and began shouting, Muhammad said.

“You cannot mention this guy because he’s not a Muslim!” Muhammad recalled Tamerlan shouting, shocking others in attendance.

“He’s crazy to me,” Muhammad said. “He had an anger inside.… I can’t explain what was in his mind.”

Tamerlan was then kicked out of the prayer service for his outburst, Muhammad recalled. “You can’t do that,” Muhammad said of shouting at the imam.

Still, Tamerlan returned to Friday prayer services and had no further outbursts, Muhammad said.

http://touch.latimes.com/#section/-1/article/p2p-75546585/

[alcibiades_mystery]

1. Not a big fan of nonviolent resistance, apparently

No doubt these were discussions during the radicalization process.

[PADemD]

10. I'm not surprised that a boxer was into violence.

[avebury]

2. Man, the more that comes out the older brother,

the more it seems like the Government really dropped the ball on this one. Look at all the laws that have been passed, the creation of the Department of Homeland Security, the sky is falling attitude where terrorism is concerned and they didn't take a better look at the older brother? So much for protecting us from those who would harm us.

[JI7]

5. because the ones who are suspected are people like the imam

[City Lights]

11. Or the OWS protestors. nt

[TwilightZone]

6. From many accounts, including the one linked, his personality changed drastically of late.

It's very possible that the man the FBI interviewed in 2011 was very different from the one of today.

[elleng]

3. 'Deceased Boston Marathon bombing suspect Tamerlan

Tsarnaev was identified by a foreign government as a "follower of radical Islam and a strong believer" whose personality had changed drastically in just a year, according to the FBI.

As investigators considered possible motives for Monday's fatal bombings, U.S. authorities acknowledged that an unnamed government had contacted the FBI to say the 26-year-old ethnic Chechen “had changed drastically” since 2010 and was preparing to leave the United States “to join unspecified underground groups,” according to an official statement from the FBI.'

http://touch.latimes.com/#section/-1/article/p2p-75546585/

[JI7]

4. he only seemed to care about religion after his failures

and trying to use it as justification for his being a violent thug piece of shit asshole.

meanwhile people like the imam here and others who are peaceful and have always been religious are the ones most people suspect of being the bad ones.

[seabeyond]

9. yup. nt

[BeyondGeography]

7. This guy was a fucking handful

[ellisonz]

8. Most of Islam considers these clwons apostates. n/t

[fleur-de-lisa]

12. DKF: Is this a credible source? Not judging, but . . .

I am not familiar with LA Times. Are they credible? Thanks. - Fleur

[dkf]

13. I think its the largest west coast paper.

It's not a right wing rag if that is the question.

[Hekate]

14. That would be the Los Angeles Times, a very major regional newspaper

A bit shrunken these days, but still a very credible news source.