Michael Medved comments on the blog below and also notes the specific similarity of the failed Islamist bomber in Sweden to the bumbling jihadists of the film Four Lions.
"You're right, of course --- especially because this latest individual, like the lead character in Four Lions, seems to have been a nice-looking, reasonably well-integrated guy.
"The amazing thing about Naziism and Communism wasn't the existence of monsters -- like Hitler and Stalin themselves --- but the involvement of pleasant, well-adjusted, happily married individuals in the most monstrous imaginable forms of evil. (Extremist) Islam appears to offer the same devastatingly dangerous power to turn 'nice' into murderous. The striking thing about all the recent American cases of would-be jihadists is that, like the losers in the movie, they all seem perfectly ordinary and quotidian-- with perhaps more than ordinary levels of goofiness and incompetence."
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