Gurski: ISIL is not an army and Orlando attack was not Islam
“That percentage becomes - the number of people becomes more and more as we take in thousands and thousands of more people”, Trump told Fox. He thinks that President Obama should resign because he refuses to use the term “radical Islam?”. If I have learned anything this past year since the Chapel Hill shootings, it is that we can’t let our differences, the color of our skin, religion, ethnicity, sexual orientation or even our political views define us. As far as I’m concerned, until it is proven to be something else, I can’t help but think that it was neither innocent nor accident.
Previous mass shootings and terrorist attacks - with the exception of 9/11 - have only temporarily increased the likelihood of Americans naming guns or terrorism as the nation’s most important problem.
The killer who murdered more than 50 people at a gay nightclub in Orlando early Sunday made freaky statements in 2013 about terrorism - including trying to force law enforcement to raid his apartment and hurt his family so he could become a martyr. The gunman, identified as 29-year-old Omar Mateen, entered the club armed with a high-powered AR-15 assault rifle and a handgun. At that time, Mateen had not yet crossed the line into active terrorism and sworn allegiance to ISIS or Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi. Whatever eventually comes to light about what motivated the Orlando shooter, the fact remains that the death toll probably would have been lower had he not had access to an automatic weapon.
Authorities identified the gunman in the shooting that left 50 dead and dozens injured as Omar Mateen, a US citizen who was born in NY to parents originally from Afghanistan. It’s time to wake up and recognize that the fight against terrorism has become a domestic shooting war, one in which nearly everyone you know is a potential target.
To try to figure out why terrorists do what they do, researchers at the think tank New America and I reviewed court records in more than 300 cases of people charged with jihadist terrorism in the United States since September 11, 2001 … Of the 53 people wounded, six were listed in critical condition Tuesday and five others were in guarded condition. It is how 102 fellow human beings came to be victims in Orlando in the first place. He didn’t talk but would smile and shake hands, Rahman said. “I was praying to God that I would live to see another day”.
Moreover, if he was doing his recon job properly, it wouldn’t surprise me if he was just pretending to “pick up guys” to keep his cover.
Omar Mateen, a US citizen of Afghan decent, is dead thanks to law enforcement officers, but the carnage he left in his wake should serve as wakeup call for President Obama and the millions of Americans around the country who foolishly believe treating Muslims who have ties to radical Islam with kid gloves is somehow acceptable. “The universal value of the right of another to be able to practice what they want to practice is well protected under Islam”.
Gay dating app Jack’d said it has been unable to confirm so far that Mateen had a profile on the service.
G4S spokesman Nigel Fairbrass said Wednesday that it was the only complaint about Mateen since he was hired in 2007.
‘Our investigation turned up no ties of any outcome between the two of them, ‘ Comey said.
Qais Munhazim woke up on Sunday to reports that an Afghan-American gunman had rampaged through a gay nightclub in Orlando, Florida, in an attack apparently motivated by support for militant Islamist groups.
The suspect’s father, Mir Seddique, told NBC News on Sunday that he was shocked by the news, but that his son had recently expressed anti-gay sentiments.
Council for American Islamic Relation “condemned this monstrous attack” while offering “condolences to the families and loved ones of all those killed or injured”.
Also, Mateen’s ex-wife attributed the violence to mental illness, saying he was bipolar and abusive toward her. Even when a potential terrorism suspect comes to the attention of USA law enforcement - as Mateen did - there may not be enough evidence, resources or coordination to continue an investigation.
One of the main unanswered questions now is whether the Federal Bureau of Investigation informed local police officers in Florida so they could have kept tabs on Mateen, said Rep. Peter King, a New York Republican who serves on the House Intelligence and Homeland Security committees.
Obama says the USA was founded on freedom of religion and that there are no religious tests in America.
Tucker reported from Washington.