I intended to be an astrophysicist before finally settling on IT, and I was doing theater before life did its things and I had to stop. I'm kinda religious but not THAT religious (and my SO is an atheist so, really not THAT much).
Maybe there's kind of a type anyway.
I think the point was that, for the people around, this was undistinguishable from suicide bombers, which are usually considered as terrorists. Terrorism is meant to inspire terror and insecurity. This did exactly that.