Orlando

What do you think the Orlando shooter was motivated by?

  • Hate towards LGBT people

    Votes: 5 21.7%

  • Radical Islam

    Votes: 6 26.1%

  • Disenfranchisement

    Votes: 0 0.0%

  • Combination of above

    Votes: 10 43.5%

  • Other

    Votes: 2 8.7%
  • Total voters
    23
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Mixed stuff going on. If it was just an Islamic terrorist, there are more strategic targets than a gay bar. Shooting up a police station maybe.

And it's not like Lot destroyed Sodom himself - Lot got divine assistance. So I'd count LGBT hate out.

I'd almost think it was suicide by cop, but ISIS has been doing a lot of attacks all over the world. So that. ISIS isn't really "Radical Islam" - it's more like an organization trying to be a legit state.

 
He seems like a religious fanatic of the violent variety. Nothing shocking or impossible to explain - how many times have we had incidents with homegrown terrorists in the past couple years alone? A guy has fundamentalist Islamic beliefs, he lives in a society that has opposing views, so he starts to hate that society. He looks up to the people in the Middle East who share his ideology and are fighting a holy war and dying for a cause he believes in, so he decides to do what they do.

The guy called up the authorities to pledge allegiance to an extremist group that's trying to create an Islamic Caliphate, he certainly thought he was doing it for Islam. I take his word for it. People who are trying to deny that this was motivated by religion are telling a story so unbelievable that I think it will backfire on whatever agenda they're trying to push.

 
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Fanag said:
Allegedly he might have also been a closet homosexual as he's been in that club several times.
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He's obviously trying to scout the enemy and get into their mindset. What better way than getting in bed with the enemy? Actually he may have gotten jilted as well.

 
Fanag said:
Allegedly he might have also been a closet homosexual as he's been in that club several times.
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I predicted this before they even mentioned that. He's probably self-loathing and hating himself for not being able to accept who he is.Thus his anger towards LGBT stems from somewhere deep inside.

Woot said:
He seems like a religious fanatic of the violent variety. Nothing shocking or impossible to explain - how many times have we had incidents with homegrown terrorists in the past couple years alone? A guy has fundamentalist Islamic beliefs, he lives in a society that has opposing views, so he starts to hate that society. He looks up to the people in the Middle East who share his ideology and are fighting a holy war and dying for a cause he believes in, so he decides to do what they do.

The guy called up the authorities to pledge allegiance to an extremist group that's trying to create an Islamic Caliphate, he certainly thought he was doing it for Islam. I take his word for it. People who are trying to deny that this was motivated by religion are telling a story so unbelievable that I think it will backfire on whatever agenda they're trying to push.
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I don't think his religion was as big a factor as his own personal identity crisis. He also claimed to follow Hezbollah a group that ISIS hates and the Boston bomber This is no different than some Italian kid saying they are connected to the mafia to make themselves sound tough.

Saying it doesn't make it true. 

 
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