What is it exactly that radicalizes terrorists?
The news media really loused up the story of the Omar Mateen shooting. It can't help to have members of the military state whispering in your ear, but Mateen was not connected to ISIS in any way. We know this now that the investigative avenues have led to dead ends. What we know see in this killer is a wife beater that was more than likely a closeted homosexual acting out his anger against the impulses that terrified him.Mateen called in ISIS as a justification for his shooting, but any unstable person that consumes American media could easily do the same. What has been more enlightening still about this individual's background are these new documents that show the verbal abuse the future shooter was forced to endure regarding his Muslim faith when he worked with the St. Lucie County (FL) police department.
Court documents filed prior to his death allege extreme harassment by police deputies when he served as a law enforcement intern. Among the slurs Mateen claims he endured:
Don't you Arabs sleep with goats?
We need to kill all the fucking Muslims.
Regarding a dirty floor mat in the county courthouse: Isn't it your prayer time? Take your magic carpet and pray to your Allah and make sure it's in the east.
You guys had your Arab spring, now it's time for our redneck spring.
Omar, you look like a Haji I killed in Iraq... If I hear you say "Allahu Akbar," I will shoot you in the head.
Mateen, who hoped to become a police officer, says the abuse was relentless. How is it that the media can obsess itself over the motivations that cause shooters to commit these unspeakable acts, and then when public information like this becomes known, they ignore it?
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posted by CM @ 7:10 PM
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