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At this point it doesn't seem he was radicalized by ISIS. His exwife said he was violent and bipolar and would frequently rant about homosexuality. His dad said that his son saw two men kissing in public recently and he had his little son with him and it set him off. A mad nut declaring allegiance to ISIS doesn't mean ISIS got to him. It just means he's ****ing nuts.
If they find a link of communication with ISIS later, then you might have something. As of now it looks more like a mentally deficient ****tard went crazy.
Oh, I do think Omar Mateen was crazy. Anybody who could wantonly kill others this way is sick in some way, and we have read too that he was violent and abusive toward his first wife. One former coworker, a former cop, claims he quit his job because his complaints about Mateen were ignored. So there is all of that.
Nevertheless, new information continues to come in. The Washington Post reports that several of his classmates recall his joy on 9-11 as they all watched the second plane go into a tower:
In an interview, Robert Zirkle, then a freshman at Martin County High School, said he saw Mateen excited and making fun of how America was being attacked on 9/11. “He was making plane noises on the bus, acting like he was running into a building,” Zirkle recalled. “I don’t really know if he was doing it because he was being taught some of that stuff at home or just doing it for attention because he didn’t have a lot of friends.” https://www.washingtonpost.com/news...ome-say-he-celebrated/?utm_term=.ac8382900aeb
We don't know what Mateen was taught at home or whether the atrocity he committed was also some insane bid for attention. But whether it's a Dylann Roof or an Omar Mateen, whatever the contributors, they're crazy.