DexterMorgan
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Hi Cariis. You're back. Much love.
Get your tissues. Another list. With photos.
Who are the victims?
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-36805164
This may have already been shared but Nick Leslie has been found...dead.
http://www.eastbaytimes.com/breaking-news/ci_30137796/cal-student-nick-leslie-found-days-after-nice
http://internacional.elpais.com/internacional/2016/07/16/actualidad/1468694195_012770.html
The president of the Muslim Community of Les Alpes Maritimes (UNAM), Aissaoui Otmane admits in a telephone conversation that the more unstable, fragile and depressed a person is, "the easier it will be to radicalizar him quickly." "So they do, I can assure you that as Iman. But I am also sure that this man has not set foot in any of the 30 mosques in the area in which we are present. I cannot know if he had links with some Salafi branch, because they are not associated or have mosques. But there is no need for them to have these here, today, through the Internet, you can radicalize someone being 10,000 kilometers away from him."
BBM
El Pais still insists on the mental instability of the murderer. The only proof of this that they have sofar, and everybody is repeating themselves and copying this, is a statement from a psychiatrist from 2004. Lovely stigma! See a psychiatrist in 2004 and it will stick to you for the rest of your days.
Nobody seems to question the validity of this, nobody asks if 2004 isn't 12 years ago and if 12 years isn't quite a long time. Or if there was a second opinion that confirmed the earlier diagnosis.
Since 2004, MLB migrated to France, grew a lot of muscle, got married, had a family, worked as a truck driver and saved enough money to send his father 84.000 pounds despite the divorce. Do the math: to save 84.000 in 12 years, you have to save 7000 per year on average, or over 500 per month from your income as a truck driver on top of your monthly expenses (including wine, smoke and loose women). If he managed to accumulate that money through other means, apparently his condition did not prevent him from doing that either.
Upon the whole, he did not do badly at all for someone with such a 'diagnosis'.
There is the inevitable search for evidence that these are thoroughly organised murders – leaving behind an email trail, evidence of contact and warnings of intent on social media. There is an expectation of a familiar path to radicalisation or membership of a group. It should have a coherent justification.
This is the model of 9/11 and al-Qaida: violence marked by a certain fastidiousness of purpose, and long in the planning. That path was understood: individuals were recruited, travelled to training camps in foreign warzones and drawn into plans that were sometimes years in the making. The new kind of outrage, though, appears very different.
What matters is the fact of the act alone and its power to frighten, divide and destabilise
A key innovation of Isis has been to reverse the polarity of responsibility: encouraging acts of violence that it accepts as bloody tributes thrown at its feet. That has best been summed up in statements by Isis spokesmen such as Abu Muhammad al-Adnani, who in 2014 encouraged ad hoc attacks using whatever tools are easily available, including vehicles.
And while Isis is organised in places where it is strong, and is capable of setting up cells outside its own territory, it has also recognised that all it needs to do to widen its impact is to provide a lethal context for attacks – a convenient peg for the angry and alienated.
The crucial point that many have missed is that it does not actually matter to Isis whether there is any real connection: whether the new “soldiers” it claims after the fact are more disturbed than ideological. What matters is the fact of the act alone and its power to frighten, divide and destabilise – and that the attack is understood to be inspired by Isis.