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The Boston Marathon bombing 1st_Boston_Marathon_blast_seen_from_2nd_floor…

- - - - al-Qaeda
        
        Access to Inspire (al-Qaeda radicalist online magazine)
        
        Access to bomb-making instructions
        
        al-Qaeda indoctrination/radicalization
      - Anti-American media and propaganda
    - - Unable to feel completely accepted by American culture
      - Feelings of ostracization
      - Trying to adjust to a (white) Christian society
    - - Direct effect on bombers due to their middle-eastern and Islamic heritage
      - Inspiration to defend their political identities
      - Brothers viewed the wars as an attack on Muslims
      - Villainization of muslims, especially male muslims
        
        Self-fulfilling prophecy
        
        "Become what they say you are"
      - Anti-Muslim media and propaganda
    - - American media's depictions of the wars
      - Hundreds of thousands of casualties from wars in Iraq and Afghanistan
      - Death in war being considered "collateral damage"
        
        Bombers using death as a shock factor/warning
      - Exposure to violence from a young age
  - - - Younger brother Dzhokhar recruited by older brother Tamerlan