It's the digital age. It doesn't matter where he was radicalized.
read this. Radicalization is like part of the Islamic political scene there
Why Does Uzbekistan Export So Many Terrorists?
......was his big, black, bushy beard: He wouldn’t have been able to grow one in his native Uzbekistan.
A beard would be considered a sign of religious extremism in Uzbekistan, which has a long and notorious record of restricting the religious practices of its majority Muslim population.
And yet the draconian measures implemented by the Karimov regime have not solved the problem of Islamist extremism in Uzbekistan.
They have only pushed problem underground and, ultimately, abroad.
Saipov isn’t the first native Uzbek to have been implicated in a terrorist attack.
Last summer’s airport bombing in Istanbul was carried out by an Uzbek man, along with co-conspirators from other Central Asian countries.
An Uzbek drove a truck into a crowd in Stockholm in April. Last week, an Uzbek was sentenced to 15 years in prison by a New York court for providing material support to ISIS.
Uzbekistan has provided some 1,500 soldiers to ISIS in Iraq and Syria, according to the Soufan Group.
ISIS has claimed that Uzbeks were responsible for some of its most high-profile suicide bombings in Iraq.
In November 2014, the largest Uzbek faction fighting in Syria pledged its allegiance to the Taliban.