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Originally Posted by ThriceShy

It could possibly have been a factor. But to claim this wasn't a terrorist attack and was simply a self loathing gay guy killing gays and masking it with islamism, is just ludicrous.

Originally Posted by ThriceShy

It's a possibility. People are usually more than one-dimensional. However, this WAS an islamic terrorist attack. The FBI say it is and until I see something compelling then I am going to believe them. They are pretty good at what they do.

You seem to be sort of stuck on it being one or the other; it's likely that the very reason for his self-loathing is that him and his family are skewed towards the religious extreme. On top if that, ISIS are already well known for targetting gay people in their attacks. You seem to think that "All Americans" and "Homosexual Americans" are indistinguishable to these extremists. They are not. The west's acceptance of homosexuality and gay communities is one of the specific reasons that ISIS hates the west in the first place.

Suggesting that he just "happened to know" the club or that it was "just the place he stumbled into" is utterly ridiculous. Whatever his larger motivation, there is no question that the attack was targetted against people that he, for whatever reason, specifically hated for their sexuality. It is uttely blinkered to argue otherwise.