Hmm, he’s a film student who did volunteer work for a lefty intercultural organization. But he embedded with the Marines, then comes back and stabs a Muslim cabbie saying “consider this a checkpoint, MF’er”. That’s an odd combination.
To quote another Lefty
“What’s the frequency Kenneth?”
First, we have no independent confirmation yet about what he said; while we don’t have to assume it is false, we also can’t know that it is a correct quote.
Second, maybe something happened to him or one of his fellow film students that made him angry and fearful of muslims, and looking for revenge. A good news media would research what happened to him in Afghanistan, to see if there is something that caused him to crack like this.
What seems clear right now is that they can find NO connection between what this guy did and the mosque discussion; if anything, on the mosque he’s with an organization that SUPPORTS it, so if you were going to blame someone for bringing it to his attention, you’d expect it was his employer.