[Yossef] Bodansky traces the secret history of the two Chechen wars, illuminating how the process of “Chechenization” transformed the fight from a secular nationalist struggle into a jihadist holy war against Russia and the secular West.
[Yossef] Bodansky traces the secret history of the two Chechen wars, illuminating how the process of “Chechenization” transformed the fight from a secular nationalist struggle into a jihadist holy war against Russia and the secular West.
Please note that this is a question, there is very little we know for sure at the moment.
It seems likely to me that the Boston bombing was a general “jihad” event, not really having anything to do with the Chechen jihad against Russia. As in the Palestinian territories, religious extremism has taken hold and the culture worships violence for itself.