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The Washington Post tried to turn the camera lens around on the violent Tsarnaev brothers. Their arrogant liberal assumption: the real question is what this says about us backwards Americans, not about the bombers. The headline in huge type was "Who do we think they are? The answer says a lot about who we are."
What we are, apparently, is a sad gathering of "Islamophobes," because the story is a collection of quotes from Muslim activists and authors who tweeted "please don't be a Muslim" and feared that Muslim assailants would spur Americans to practice "discrimination or retaliation or shame." Even after the Tsarnaevs were found, the Post reported "Brown Muslims" were relieved:
Embedded in the misunderstanding [of Caucasian Muslims] is the stereotype that to be a Muslim, one must be a darker-skinned person of Middle Eastern descent.