Frank Bruni, "The Lesson of Boston": Go Back to School, Frank

I like much of what Frank Bruni writes, but today he is wearing his ignorance on his sleeve. In his latest New York Times op-ed entitled "" (http://www.nytimes.com/2013/04/28/opinion/sunday/bruni-the-lesson-of-boston.html?pagewanted=all), Bruni opines on the motivation behind the Boston Marathon bombings:

"Our insistence on patterns and commonalities and some kind of understanding assumes coherence to the massacres, rationality. But the difference between the aimless, alienated young men who do not plant bombs or open fire on unsuspecting crowds — which is the vast majority of them — and those who do is less likely to be some discrete radicalization process that we can diagram and eradicate than a dose, sometimes a heavy one, of pure madness. And there’s no easy antidote to that. No amulet against it."

Pure madness. Yeah, right. I suppose that's the reason for the following findings by the Pew Research Center(http://pewglobal.org/2010/12/02/muslims-around-the-world-divided-on-hamas-and-hezbollah/):

"At least three-quarters of Muslims in Egypt . . . say they would favor making each of the following the law in their countries: stoning people who commit adultery, whippings and cutting off of hands for crimes like theft and robbery and the death penalty for those who leave the Muslim religion."

So now you know that most Egyptians are "purely mad."

Then there was the recently foiled, al-Qaeda backed plot to derail a Canadian passenger train, but Raed Jaser and co-accused Chiheb Esseghaier are not Egyptians. More "pure madness"?

Perhaps 9/11 was also "pure madness"?

And all the "honor killings" being perpetrated against Muslim women around the globe also amount to "pure madness"?

Wake up, Frank. These hate crimes are something that I would describe as "pure evil," but I suppose that any such dark thoughts would be categorized as politically incorrect.