Your choices are --
1. Islamic Terrorism
2. Domestic Gun Violence
Please vote and explain why.
I can't vote because it's both. Actually, your first choice should be "Radical Islamic Terrorism", because it is in no way reflective of the beliefs of the overwhelming majority of Islam.
Oh stop. "Islamic Terrorism" MEANS radical Islam. Everyone knows that.
Your choices are --
1. Islamic Terrorism
2. Domestic Gun Violence
Please vote and explain why.
Your choices are --
1. Islamic Terrorism
2. Domestic Gun Violence
Please vote and explain why.
Your choices are --
1. Islamic Terrorism
2. Domestic Gun Violence
Please vote and explain why.
I can't vote because it's both. Actually, your first choice should be "Radical Islamic Terrorism", because it is in no way reflective of the beliefs of the overwhelming majority of Islam.
Well It was Islamic Terrorism, but also with mixture of other factors. But I think Islam still was the main motivation for why the perpetrator committed the Orlando massacre.
Where is "attack on the patrons at the Pulse nightclub" option? I don't worry about silly semantic games.
Oh stop. "Islamic Terrorism" MEANS radical Islam. Everyone knows that.
You left out homophobia too. The man was obsessed with gays. He hated them but could not stay away from them either. He was very conflicted about his sexuality.
I think he also may have went after a gay club specifically, because his father and faith explicitly denounced same sex. He targeted them to add even more notoriety to his attack, similar to why AQ went after the financial center of the World Trade Center, Pentagon and possibly WH. It was a twofer for him by adding the Pulse.
And the fact that Omar himself was possibly gay, and probably had some serious confliction within himself.
Since we cannot possibly know the workings of someone's mind, I support the position that he himself espoused...radical Islamic terrorism.
Your choices are --
1. Islamic Terrorism
2. Domestic Gun Violence
Please vote and explain why.
I wonder if he got male or female virgins.
He probably couldn't resolve his attraction to same sex with his faith and father, which caused him to settle the internal conflict with a final act. They said he made announcements of support for competing terror groups, which sounds like confusion. I think people who do these horrifically grandiose gestures also often feel ineffectual and irrelevant and are seeking to have an impact.
To be clear, these groups named by Mateen are not allies. The Islamic State and al-Qaeda both derive their theology from an extreme view of Sunni Islamism, but in practical terms the pair split in 2014, with the more established al-Qaeda publicly disavowing the actions of the more extreme Islamic State. Jabhat al-Nusra, al-Qaeda's affiliate in Syria, often fights the Islamic State in the Syrian conflict. Meanwhile, Hezbollah is a Shiite Islamist group. In Syria, it supports the government of Bashar al-Assad, effectively meaning it fights both the Islamic State and al-Qaeda.
Comey suggested Monday that Mateen may have not understood the distinctions among the groups. Relatives have given mixed reports about the level of Mateen's religiosity, with some suggesting he preferred working out to studying religion. He attended the Islamic Center of Fort Pierce, though he is said to have rarely spoken. His Afghan father has filmed videos that appeared to offer support for the Taliban, a fundamentalist movement that also opposes the Islamic State, though his messages also were sometimes incoherent.
This.
His claim that he was acting for ISIS is undercut by his various other claims to be part of al-Queda, Hezbollah and support for al-Nursa:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news...fference-between-isis-al-qaeda-and-hezbollah/
Mental illness and conflict over his same sex attraction seem the driving forces behind his actions which drove him to an act of domestic gun violence. If he didn't understand the difference between those groups, then his motivation as an Islamic terrorist must be questioned.