Not to sound PC or whatever, but to give a counter example, to show that it DOES happen.. I am very close to a young man, whose father was Arab. The mother was not. His father had very little influence on him growing up, basically, the dad was an a$$hole, and the son hates him to this day. His parents divorced when he was about 10 years old, because of the abuse the dad put his mother through.
The son is nominally a Christian, pro-American, completely, culturally, American, and yet both his first and last name are Arab. He plans to have his last name changed, his first name could pass for Hispanic, as its a very common Arab first name that is used in other cultures.
Thanks, I don't doubt that there are cases like the one you cite, all I said was that we don't yet know what's relevant or irrelevant in this case, but we want to know ALL about this guy to determine the relevant facts of the story. We DO know he is a depraved hate-America propagandist who put out some very dangerous lies that could have gotten a lot of people killed. Actually, his lies still could get people killed since even the quick debunking here does not prevent the hate-America sites from spreading the tale, especially in the Middle East where there are NO SCRUPLES at all about using blatantly false propaganda. I would not be surprised at all to learn that Jesse Jihad's video turns up on some jihadist videos, etc. down the road -- they may not know or care how quickly and thoroughly he was debunked if they can put the story in front of ignorant audiences.