[John H K]

Was a long time ago but this is yet another one of those cases where the facts are "misremembered" the way people want to, and then repeated inaccurately.

The truth of the matter was that the boy is 1/4 Arab, and 3/4s Italian.

Father is 1/2 Arab and 1/2 Italian and doesn't speak a word of Arabic, and was born in the US.

It was either the GRANDFATHER or GREAT-GRANDFATHER that actually immigrated to the Boston area early in the century.

That's roughly the time when large numbers of Syrian-Lebanese Christians immigrated to the Boston area.

I've never seen the slightest scrap of evidence the father was a Muslim, or that the boy was, or that either had ever even set foot in a mosque.

[Shermy]

Police release Charles Bishop suicide note (15 yr old Tampa plane suicide, Osama sympathizer) Feb. 6, 2002