Looks to me the author wants it to be... I couldn't say, as I'm not sure what it is he attempts to address anyway, as the whole thing is such a mess.

The thoughttrain goes off the rails already in the first paragraph - the words 'criminal' or 'murderer' have no correlation to "a condition of irrationality". Additionally, describing someone as murderer, doesn't mean attempts to comprehend the process behind radicalisation are abandoned - to the contrary. His thesis that media's usage of CCTV or photos serves a 'morbidity of catching a glimpse of an evasive radical evil' is really at the ROFLOL-level ludicrous. Not mentioning jihad-recruitor (and convicted criminal...) Abdelbaki Es Satty, whom most likely played a central role in, you know, radicalizing the Ripoll 12, that is wilfully ignorant in a piece that appears to argue against the reduction of jihadist attacks to radical evil...

Ad nauseam...