Best thing to do with little John is to make his ID, fingerprints, etc. known to the world governments and ship him back to Afghanistan to let the new government deal with him. I imagine they're not very happy with him right now either
Crimes are punished by government authorities. Sin is punished by God. What is he finding so unclear in this? Surely he isn't wanting our government to take on more of the form of the Taliban.
"In the U.S. I feel alone," he once said. "Here I feel comfortable and at home."
Maybe he felt closer to God in Islam than in liberal Catholicism. And maybe he was right. The Taliban is pretty far from God, but perhaps not as far as lukewarm Christianity.
In his odd way, Lindh was looking for stable truths that were not to be found in Marin County, and he didn't care if his search led him to conclusions that seemed insane to the apostles of pluralism.
More along the lines that, as many children raised in families that are broken or next to it, there is deep anger and even hate. From what I have read of him, he blamed his parents but also America. Just as some turn to gangs and feel "they belong", he turned to yet another oganized hate group, one that claimed their actions were "for Allah". If he had any religious or spiritual feelings, I would guess the idea of acting on hate in the name of religion would seem appealing.