From [HERE] At this time, there is no evidence linking the Tsarnaev brothers to a broader movement in Chechnya, a war-torn federal republic in southern Russia. Neither of the brothers has ever lived there. The oldest, Tamerlan, was born in Russia and moved to the US when he was sixteen. The youngest, Dzokhar, was born in Kyrgyzstan, moved to the US when he was nine, and became a US citizen in 2012. Despite the Tsarnaevs' American upbringing, the media has presented their lives through a Chechen lens. The Chechen people are mainly inhabitants of Chechnya, Russian Federation - one of the few places in the world where white people dwell in large numbers. 

(At this time there is also no evidence that these white men even believed in Allah or at any rate that such a belief led them to attack people in Boston who looked just like them. But white supremacy is not based on truth it is based on deception and/or violence. To a racist/white supremacist, Muslim means a non-white person who does not worship a white Jesus and his white father (God). Racism is about white people's survival in an overwhelmingly non-white world (90%).) 

 

White people and their media often switch identity to their benefit (Babylon makes the rules), like Israelis (who are now identified as whites) and George Zimmerman (to the media he's not a white man with two white parents (his mother in photo). Rather, he is a "Hispanic" "neighborhood watchman", who shot a troubled unarmed teenager - as opposed to "a victim of white supremacy"). Anon explains that there are different types of white people. What kind of white people are the Tsarnaev brothers?

"There are whites who:

• are practicing racism against non-whites at a particular moment
• are not practicing racism at that moment but have practiced it at a previous time, or will practice it at a later time
• are not practicing racism at that moment, but say and do nothing to stop those who are
  
• are not practicing racism at that moment, but have no problem with other whites practicing racism (don’t care)
• are benefiting from the crime of racism even if they are not practicing racism at that moment
• refuse to tell WHO is practicing racism; HOW racism is being practiced; and refuse to help the victims with the information they have
• oppose racism by exposing and opposing whites who practice it [MORE]"

Eli Yishai, the Israeli Minister of Interior, "Israel belongs to the white man",

More from Aljazeera:  American Muslims have long had to deal with ignorance and prejudice in the aftermath of a terrorist attack. " Please don't be Muslims or Arabs ", goes the refrain, as unnecessary demands for a public apology from Muslims emerge. This week made it clear that it is Muslims who are owed the apology. After wild speculation from CNN about a "dark-skinned suspect", on Thursday the New York Post published a cover photo falsely suggesting a Moroccan-American high school track star, Salah Barhoun , was one of the bombers. "Jogging while Arab" has become the new " driving while black ". Later that Thursday, the FBI released photos of two young men wearing baseball caps - men who so resembled all-American frat boys that people joked they would be the target of " racial bro-filing ".

The men were Caucasian, so the speculation turned away from foreign terror and toward the excuses routinely made for white men who kill: mental illness, anti-government grudges, frustrations at home. The men were white and Caucasian - until the next day, when they became the wrong kind of Caucasian, and suddenly they were not so "white" after all.

Knowing nothing of the Tsarnaevs' motives, and little about Chechens, the American media tore into Wikipedia and came back with stereotypes. The Tsarnaevs were stripped of their 21st century American life and became symbols of a distant land, forever frozen in time. Journalist Eliza Shapiro proclaimed that Tamerlan Tsarnaev was "named after a brutal warlord", despite the fact that Tamerlan, or Timur, is an ordinary first name in the Caucasus and Central Asia. Her claim is equivalent to saying a child named Nicholas must be named in honour of ruthless Russian tsar Nicholas I - an irony apparently lost on New York Times columnist Nicholas Kristof, who made a similar denouncement on Twitter (to his credit, Kristof quickly retracted the comment).

Other journalists found literary allusions, or rather, illusions. "They were playing the nihilists Arkady and Bazarov in Turgenev's Fathers and Sons ," explained scholar Juan Cole, citing an 1862 Russian novel to explain the motives of a criminal whose Twitter account was full of American rap lyrics. One does not recall such use of literary devices to ascertain the motives of less exotic perpetrators, but who knows? Perhaps some ambitious analyst is plumbing the works of Faulkner to shed light on that Mississippi Elvis impersonator who tried to send ricin to Obama.

Still others turned to social media as a gateway to the Chechen soul. Journalist Julia Ioffe - after explaining the Tsarnaevs through Tolstoy, Pushkin, and, of course, Stalin -  cites the younger Tsarnaev's use of the Russian website VKontakte as proof of his inability to assimilate, then ranks the significance of his personal photos."The most revealing image of Dzhokhar is not the one of him hugging an African-American friend at his high school graduation, but the one of him sitting at a kitchen table with his arm around a guy his age who appears to be of Central Asian descent," she writes . "In front of them is a dish  plov , a Central Asian dish of rice and meat, and a bottle of Ranch dressing." Again, it is difficult to imagine a journalist writing with such breathtaking arrogance - why is the Central Asian friend more "revealing" than the African-American one? What, exactly, are they "revealing"? - about the inner life of someone from a more familiar place. [MORE]