From Gawker:
Zachary Chesser, a 20 year-old kid from the DC suburbs, was arrested yesterday while allegedly on his way to travel to join an Islamist insurgency in Somalia. No surprise. Zachary fit the classic terrorist profile: he hated South Park.
Ever wonder who took seriously the periodic calls by radical Muslims to kill various cartoonists, like the lady who started “Everbody Draw Mohammed Day?” People like Zachary Chesser, that’s who. According to the Washington Post:
Chesser, a George Mason University dropout whose parents live in Centreville, told the FBI that he only recently became religious and grew a beard, took the name Abu Tallah Al-Amrikee and married a Muslim woman in 2009, according to court papers. He allegedly looked to online videos, chats and over-the-counter CDs “almost obsessively,” before creating a stream of YouTube sites, blogs and postings spreading the call “to fight jihad,” the papers say.
Not all converts to Islam are as mad as Zachary Chesser, of course. And there are more than a few nutters born into the faith which shows there is no monopoly on psychoses. What we do know is that conversion is the only way for nihilistic young narcissists like Zachary to get themselves into jihadism.