Originally Posted by Chula Vista

Immediately made me think about the Pulse nightclub shooting. 49 shot and killed at a gay bar by a dude with an Arabic name. The dude hated blacks, hispanics, and gays. He killed out of homophobia and an insecurity about his own sexuality (many who knew him thought he was a closeted gay and hated himself for it). No signs at all pointed to Islam.

In the aftermath, the majority of the attention was not about those who were killed, not about the massive scope of the tragedy, but all about the fact that the killer had one of those funny sounding Muslim names. Pissed me off so bad at the time.