Hi Cariis.
I don't agree that the goal of "terrorism" is regime change or change of government policies.
The stated goal of Islamic terrorists is to kill infidels. They want to KILL us, because our religion is not the same as theirs, and they believe that their deity commands them to kill non believers. They also want to KILL all moderate Muslims, because they perceive that they are not sufficiently devout enough. Their ideology commands them to kill apostates.
OM stated allegiance and loyalty to this cause, and its leader. He believed he was doing his deity's bidding by shooting over 100 people at a nightclub. He may have been conflicted, perpetually aggrieved and angry, and gay, which may have contributed to his motivations to kill. But his primary motivation to commit mass murder as a terrorist act is his belief and loyalty to the ideology of the radical Islamic terrorist cause, and KILL. He said so himself. He studied the ideology carefully, and carried out his loyal plan in a detailed manner, right down to shaving his body hair so he would be "clean" and purified when he met his deity. He intended to die, IMO.
It's the killing of the apostates and non believers that precede the goal of "global theocratic domination".
There is no negotiating with that ideology. That is why they have to be utterly eliminated with military force, IMO.
Terrorists don't "snap" and go from being normal, to radicalized, overnight. There are clear signs. This is another case where the signs were clear, but was grossly mishandled, due to the enforced ideology of our potus, and his policies that have produced a disorganized and impotent terrorism monitoring system. IMO.
Hi!
What was IRA goal? Isreal conflict?
Totally disagree! OM motivations were , in the follwoing order ; IMO internalized homophobia, acute mental illiness, Duel dx, revenge.
He is 29, and was fully aware that social media is scrutinized after both a mass murder and terror attack.
He was fully aware that his electronic footprint certainly is not a radicalized terrorist. Hence the need for multiple declarations of his ISIS motivation near the end of his life.
WIth his Mulim upbringing and his father, what he is going to announce to the world that he got exposed to Hiv, and is really pissed off about it. He has been attracked to Latino men and they rejected him?
The role his lifelong mental illiness has in this will slowly emerge, that comes up number two on the list
Can you imagine the San Bern folks guarding american govt buildings for a living!
The Fort Hood dude was being treated for mental illiness. Suicide is a result of mental illiness, whereas blowing yourself up is martyr. Flying airplanes into immovable buildings is martyr.
Suicide is very prohibited in Muslim culture. Walking into a hail of bullets is suicide by cop but not suicide in the shaming way of Muslim faith.
IMO 911/San Bern were authentic Islasmic terrorists. London bombings, Madrid, Brazil. Paris for sure, both times.
The irony here IMO, is by making mass shooters into terrorists, allows Americans as a society not to address the mental illiness issues that are escalating as result of $$ cuts.
If we make the problem external Muslim, and not keep it here, mental illiness, then it really is not our fault.
If one looks back, in the earlier mass shootings the focus was mental illiness. But as a society we ignored that reality and here are today.
The notion that the Muslim religion is about killing infidels, is such a small % of the Muslim religion. There are 1.6 billion human beings who follow the faith. The notion that that is a real compnent of the faith, is not borne out by the number of folks who practice the faith without machine guns!
It is also a way for us to dodge the role our wars have in this. How fond would you be of a country who murders your mom,dad,sister,grandmother,grandfather, aunts, uncles, nepwhews, neices, friends,living spaces,food and water supplies,?
That IMO is the reason for the escalating hate. Folks tend to get pretty upset when generations of their family members are slaughtered.
We dont look like hypocrites?? - with the CHeney torture stuff? But expect others to be humane? God knows what we dont know what else CHeneys gang did! Barbaric.
The esential truth here is :
What we call war, they call terror
What we call terror, they call war
What is the difference between a terrrosit killing 12, or one of our shoulder missles killing 12? I find none. Are Americans pissed about Paris, you bet. Are they pissed about our activities in their homeland, you bet!
They are not thinking we are at terror wiht Americans !
They believe they are at war with Americans
moo!
