Many people are reacting with anger today after Rolling Stone magazine revealed it has put Boston bomber Jahar Tsarnaev on the cover of its latest issue. In the end however, the article does not appear to be a distortion of “the monster” which Tsarnaev became. Psychiatrists will be fascinated by Tsarnaev as an example of another youthful male who, through whatever germination, turns his yearning for meaning into a homicidal rampage. Rolling Stone says the cover story presents “a riveting and heartbreaking account of how a charming kid with a bright future became a monster”. The magazine’s two-month investigation found that Jahar’s brother Tamerlan once confided to his mother that he felt like “two people” were inside him. “She confided this to a close friend who felt he might need a psychiatrist, but [his mother] believed that religion would be the cure for her son’s inner demons and growing mental instability, and pushed him deeper into Islam.” Rolling Stone profiles surviving Boston bomber
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Many people are reacting with anger today after Rolling Stone magazine revealed it has put Boston bomber Jahar Tsarnaev on the cover of its latest issue. In the end however, the article does not appear to be a distortion of “the monster” which Tsarnaev became. Psychiatrists will be fascinated by Tsarnaev as an example of another youthful male who, through whatever germination, turns his yearning for meaning into a homicidal rampage. Rolling Stone says the cover story presents “a riveting and heartbreaking account of how a charming kid with a bright future became a monster”. The magazine’s two-month investigation found that Jahar’s brother Tamerlan once confided to his mother that he felt like “two people” were inside him. “She confided this to a close friend who felt he might need a psychiatrist, but [his mother] believed that religion would be the cure for her son’s inner demons and growing mental instability, and pushed him deeper into Islam.” 