Why the faith of the Boston Marathon bombing suspects doesn’t matter, but yours does

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It simply does not matter that Tamerlan and Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, the two Chechen-born brothers suspected of perpetrating the attacks were Muslim. Any religion, or lack of one, can be co-opted and used by a person or people as a justification for extremism.

What matters right now, and into the future, is the way the faith and values of every other American can either help us resist the fear-generating effects of terrorism, or help that fear grow and take root like a weed, choking out trust and diversity.

In a statement immediately following the capture of Dzhokhar, the younger brother, President Obama declared this attack had “failed” because “we will not waver from the character and the compassion and the values that define us as a country. Nor will we break the bonds that hold us together as Americans.”

http://www.washingtonpost.com/national/on-faith/why-the-faith-of-the-boston-marathon-bombing-suspects-doesnt-matter-but-yours-does/2013/04/23/dd3b696c-ab63-11e2-b6fd-ba6f5f26d70e_story.html