To be sure, US criminal investigators have not officially identified the motives of the Kuwaiti-born Abdulazeez, who does not seem to have belonged to a terror network. But there is plenty of precedent for an alienated and disenchanted young man, brought up in the West (Abdulazeez attended high school and college in Chattanooga), to seek a cause worth fighting for – and to find it in the perceived humiliation of Islam by America and the West.
可以肯定，美国刑事调查人员还没有正式确定阿齐兹的动机，这名年轻人在科威特出生，似乎并不属于任何恐怖组织。但现实中不乏在西方长大（阿齐兹在查塔怒加市上的高中和大学），梦想破灭、陷入孤立的年轻人寻找值得为之奋斗的事业——并在伊斯兰遭受美国和西方所谓的羞辱中找到奋斗目标的先例。