Is membership in some kind of group a requirement? I thought that "lone wolf terrorism" was now a thing. People were ok with calling Omar Mateen a terrorist, because even though he had no connection with any formal terror group, he was apparently inspired by ISIS or something.
Because ISIS sets out to inspire their followers to do this sort of thing, calls on them to do it, sends instructions in how to do it, and gives out approving press releases when they happen. Did anyone or group call in this guy to shoot a couple of foreigners? Did any group in America celebrate what he'd done? Did the KKK or some other group release a triumphant video or something?
This was just a stupid, mean drunk, unfortunately not entirely unlike many, many, many such we've seen in the US, who, upon being ejected for his shitty attitude, goes to the car, gets a gun, and comes back shooting.
And yet you never hear any government official or security official describe those things as terrorism. If attacks on abortion clinics were considered terrorism they'd be the runaway leader in terror attacks on US soil, by a wide margin. Even when that guy went on a shooting rampage in Colorado Springs he was a "pro-life extremist", not a terrorist.
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And why is it that whenever a Muslim terrorist is arrested some people rush to claim that he was really just mentally unbalanced - usually with no evidence. Meanwhile, this guy was found to be mentally unbalanced by a psychiatrist and confined to a mental institution, but you still want to call him a terrorist?
Abortion violence is intermittent, and not something most ordinary people fear. There have been less than a dozen deaths in history, seven in the last twenty five years, and hasn't roused the public's anxiety level. 9/11 raised the bar on what people fear, and targeted it at Muslims. And the Muslim world has done nothing since then, given more than 30,000 terrorist acts committed in the name of Islam, to change that.
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