We’d been learning so much about how the Tsarnaev brothers became more interested in radical Islam. I was curious about the spouse’s religious background and was fascinated to learn she “grew up Christian.” I know that can mean about a million different things so I read the story looking forward to additional details.
But those three words in the lede are all we have. I’d love even to know how we know this. She “grew up Christian” according to whom? I’d read elsewhere on the internet that she in fact hadn’t grown up in a family that was religious. It had better sourcing than this story but came from a site that is outside mainstream media.
I live in the same state where Katherine Tsarnaev came from, and where she occasionally resided with her husband and brother-in-law (in her own family’s home). I must say that the local coverage hasn’t been entirely satisfactory: so many questions still remain in these early days to be answered. I’m trying to keep an open mind.
For myself, I find it hard to believe that Katherine Tsarnaev was totally unaware of her husband’s activities, yet I remain open to other possible explanations of her puzzling behavior besides invincible ignorance, depraved indifference, or just a deplorable lack of curiosity.
But if the average American housewife was missing her pressure cooker from the kitchen, don’t you think she’d want to know what her husband was up to with it?