| Chula Vista |
10-02-2017 01:02 PM |
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Originally Posted by Man like Monkey
(Post 1879011)
Yes Chules other than the fact he pledged allegiance to ISIS, mentioned Ramadan and called himself a 'soldier of God' on the phone to the emergency services there were absolutely no signs whatsoever it pointed to Islam.
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Much more of an afterthought than an actual motive.
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A former coworker of Mateen's at G4S said Mateen "had talked about killing people", used slurs and "had a lot of hatred for people. Black people, women, he did not like Jews, he did not like Hispanics, nor did he like gay or lesbian people."
An unnamed police academy classmate said Mateen asked him out around 2006, that they had spent time at gay bars together after class, and that he believed Mateen was gay. He also described him as "socially awkward" and disliked by classmates. A man who self-identified as Mateen's lover-of-two-months, "Miguel", stated that he believed the massacre was out of revenge against Latino men when Mateen learned he may have been exposed to HIV from a Puerto Rican man with whom he had sex. Mateen's autopsy results, however, showed that he was HIV-negative.
At least four regular Pulse customers reported having seen Mateen visit the nightclub on no fewer than a dozen occasions. One of them said he would sometimes become drunkenly "loud and belligerent", and at other times would drink in a corner by himself. According to a witness who recognized him outside the club an hour before the shooting, Mateen had messaged him using Jack'd, a gay dating app, intermittently over the course of a year before the attack. Another witness said Mateen used Grindr, a gay hook-up app, and Adam4Adam website to communicate with gay men, and had posted pictures of himself on both sites. A third witness said Mateen would try to pick up men at the nightclub.
On the day of the shooting, Mateen's father, Mir Seddique Mateen, said that he had seen his son get angry after seeing a gay couple kiss in front of his family at the Bayside Marketplace in Miami months prior to the shooting, which he suggested might have been a motivating factor. Two days later, after his son's sexual orientation became a subject of speculation, Mateen's father said he did not believe his son was homosexual. Mateen's ex-wife, however, claimed that his father called him gay while in her presence. Speaking on her behalf, her current fiancé said that she, his family, and others believed he was gay, and that "the FBI asked her not to tell this to the American media". (Uhm, wonder why?????)
In the hours before the shooting, Mateen used several Facebook accounts to write posts vowing vengeance for American airstrikes in Iraq and Syria and to search for content related to terrorism. These posts, since deleted, were recovered and included in an open letter by Senate Homeland Security Chairman Ron Johnson to Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg seeking further information about Mateen's use of the site.
During the shooting, Mateen made a 9-1-1 call claiming it was an act of retaliation for the killing of, among others, ISIL militant Abu Waheeb in an airstrike the previous month.
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So he was a severely angry, homophobic, racist, self loathing, closeted gay man in the weeks/months/years? leading up to the shootings - and then in his final hours decided to fly an Islam flag after searching the internet for content?
Sorry. The Pulse massacre was not about radical Islamic terrorism. At all. He was simply putting up a smokescreen to hide his homosexuality. |
