Missing Virginia men are terrorists

What is wrong with people? Five Muslim men vanish, then turn up in Pakistan, detained after trying to make contact with terrorist groups. And the press and families are confused about how this could happen. From the LA Times:

Members of the mosque struggled Friday to understand how and why five well-liked members of its youth group went to Pakistan and were arrested on suspicion of seeking to join terrorist groups.

The same kind of "confusion" is being seen in Minneapolis, where young Muslim men have been vanishing, only to turn up in Somalia wearing bomb vests.

It's interesting, even befuddling for some, that none of these men are Christian, Jewish, Buddhist, Mormon, Scientologist, or atheist. Wonder what the pattern could be, then? Hmmph. I'm stumped. Maybe these Virginians and Minnesotans are suffering "vicarious trauma"?

It'll be fun to watch the liberal media, once again, carefully dance all around the problem without addressing it. Perhaps they'll use the same strange reporting used after Fort Hood: vehemently deny it's terrorism while grasping at any other possible reason, then only grudgingly admit it may be terrorism, but it's still our fault. The names "Bush" and "Cheney" can be invoked if all else fails.