Some may be over-playing his psy-ops role. Enlisted in psy-ops means he couldn’t shoot so someone stuck him repairing radios.
I think a lot of the assumption comes from the amount of attacks on sikhs since 9/11 mistaking them for Muslims.
You are right though, it is too early to know motivation. For all we know, he was just fired from a job and his boss went to that temple.
I agree that the psy-ops role is being over-emphasized.
Psy-ops means blaring rock music at Noreiga in Panama...not some journey into somebody’s mind. And, he enlisted as a private, an indication he had no academic training in pschology or psychiatry.
As far as I’m concerned, his ‘psy-ops’ role is completely meaningless.
He also got tossed out of the army because he was a drunk.