This story is surprising not because the guy is a Muslim but because he's an Iranian living in the United States. In the 20 something years of conversing with Iranian Muslims here I don't think i've found a real devout Muslim most are pro-American and extremely critical of the IRI. That's what makes me wonder if this guy is somehow affiliated with the Iranian government.
"...makes me wonder if this guy is somehow affiliated with the Iranian government."
I've been wondering too. I'll tell you what I came up with. He's in the US, studying, and while he is busy, all's well. But then he graduates, he has time on his hands. He goes to the mosque. And the cleric flips that little trip-switch most muslims have instead of the ability to think as an individual. And how does the cleric do it? By telling him fantastic lies. Lies about US military raping Iraqi schoolgirls on buses, for example.
Islam allows clerics to tell lies. Islam ENCOURAGES lies! To further the cause of allah, all lies are permitted.
And when the leaders, the clerics, the 'spiritual advisors' LIE TO THEIR FOLLOWERS what else can you expect but an effed up congregation of wound up mohammadans, ready to kill the 'infidel'?
Arthur Koestler, who lived in Jerusalem before WW2, wrote; The Jew and his arab landlord lived peacefully from Saturday to Thursday. On Friday, the arab went to the mosque, and when he returned, he killed his Jewish tenant family, women and children included, with a kitchen knife. (paraphrased.)
Monitor the clerics in the mosques. They have had 1400 years of practice on how to manipulate minds. It's terrifying to think this weirdo studied psychology and philosophy and still acted like a barbarian as soon as he was 'switched on'.