But neither brother appears to have publicly embraced violent jihad.
While Trump failed to publicly decry violent racists on Saturday, other conservative political figures said exactly what the president would not.
What he has not done is publicly address the violent upheaval in Cairo.
To publicly condemn the "violent minority" is a betrayal of the cause you claim to fight for.
When he wrote publicly, in his violent, sprawling handwriting, of the prime minister as "the Christian whoremonger & hypocrite Gladstone", or of Gladstone's successor, the Earl of Rosebery, as an "underbred disgusting Jew pimp", he made himself repulsive to everyone except his toadies.
When she tried to return to the program after a maternity leave, she was told she had to answer a question: "Do you now, or have you within the past five years, publicly advocated the violent overthrow of the federal government?" She refused, and was denied readmittance to the program.
It begs the question: What's it going to take to get the Obama administration and West Virginia state officials to publicly denounced the violent rhetoric by Big Coal hacks and mountaintop removal operators?
Lee, who has wondered publicly about "my own violent nature" and "the nature of violent male behavior," is a searching poet of fathers and sons, alert to how domestic space warps around contemplative men and whatever latent rage their silence veils.
Both sides must unite publicly against the use of violent measures in the movement and must isolate extremists who employ them.
Both brothers were open about their devotion to Islam, and Tamerlan's Web postings suggested an attraction to radicalism, but neither appears to have publicly embraced the ideology of violent jihad.
