AND I SAID IT ON THAT SAME DAY!
Bombshell Police Chief admits Orlando Shooting hoax was False Flag!!
EUROPEAN
AND ISRAELI SAVAGERY AND ANTI ARAB AND ANTI-MUSLIM RACISM (MISISLAMISM)!
HOW THE STATE & MEDIA used homosexuals to cover up the systematic bashing of Muslims, Arabs, Islam, Christians and God and make their HATRED acceptable to the masses! ALL IS ENGINEERED!
BUSTED! Omar Mateen is an ACTOR Who Appeared in "The Big Fix" - Pulse Shooting Hoax
New World Agenda
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Orlando Pulse - "Shooter Contained in Hospital" 2 Hours Before Breech of Nightclub
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Orlando Pulse - "Shooter Contained in Hospital" 2 Hours Before Breech of Nightclub
Bombshell Police Chief admits Orlando Shooting hoax was False Flag!!
AND THE MUSLIM FOOLS BOUGHT THE WHOLE PACK OF LIES!
June 13, 2016
"On behalf of the American Muslim community (WHAT COMMUNITY?), we, the undersigned, want to extend our deepest condolences to the families and friends of the victims (DO YOU HAVE EVIDENCE OF THE DEATHS?) of the barbaric assault that occurred early yesterday morning at Pulse, an LGBTQ (??? THAT SATANIC PLACE OF DEPRAVITY?) nightclub in Orlando, Florida. We unequivocally say that such an act of hate-fueled violence has no place in any faith, including Islam. (WHY DO YOU IMPLICATE ISLAM IN THIS RACIST FALSE FLAG?) As people of faith (Thank God I am not onew of them!) , we believe that all human beings have the right to safety and security (Are Muslims acting like Policemen and Policewomen, now?) and th at each and every human life is inviolable."Signed: Sheikh Hamza Yusuf Mark Hanson and many other Muslim buffoons (except the Sheikh!)!
Orlando Shooting HOAX Desperate Crisis Actor
Fake Crying EXPOSED (Redsilverj)
Orlando Shooting HOAX Crisis Actor May be the WORST
Ever!! (Redsilverj)
Harold Saive (1)
The gay bar lost it's legal right to use the fictitious name "PULSE" in
2013 when owners failed to renew registration. Florida DoS documents
show the legal right to use the name "PULSE" expired in 2013.
(2) Orange County property appraiser records reveal that seating for 300 people in a neighborhood bar of only 4,800 sguare feet and only 11 parking places is literally impossible. The fire marshall would never allow such a crowd in a 2-story liquor business.
Please view the short video that exposes the media disinformation on these issues. Please feel free to append it to your excellent article to add further fact-based enlightenment to our audience --
Size Matters - Corpse Media Has No Pulse in Orlando Shooting Story
https://youtu.be/3LIugZfUvLw
(2) Orange County property appraiser records reveal that seating for 300 people in a neighborhood bar of only 4,800 sguare feet and only 11 parking places is literally impossible. The fire marshall would never allow such a crowd in a 2-story liquor business.
Please view the short video that exposes the media disinformation on these issues. Please feel free to append it to your excellent article to add further fact-based enlightenment to our audience --
Size Matters - Corpse Media Has No Pulse in Orlando Shooting Story
https://youtu.be/3LIugZfUvLw
- Sympathy for SDT (sodomites, dykes & trannies)
- Anti-gun hysteria
- Anti-Muslim hysteria
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Times: Gunman in Orlando Pledged Allegiance to ISIS Before Attack
By LIZETTE ALVAREZ and RICHARD PÉREZ-PEÑA
REBUTTAL BY
"It's all a bunch of $#@*&^% ^^$%$@!!!
The producers at LHS (Langley-Hollywood Studios) have really,
and we do mean really, "pushed the envelope" with this latest stunt involving the "Pulse" sodomite
club in Orlando, Florida -- setting an astonishing, and we do mean astonishing "lone gunman" record of 50 kills plus 53
wounded! Eat you heart out Rambo!
How
was it possible that in a
small crowded club, Rambomar was able to wield a
long gun without someone being able to grab either him or the barrel
before
he could methodically shoot 103 people -- a task which would have required at
least 3 magazine replacements? Yes, they were
queers, but dominant queers are often weight-lifting macho types who
aren't
afraid to fight. And the submissive types would
have ran for their lives in terror. How did he get past the club's
bouncers
while wielding a rifle? How could he kill so many
people, in the dark, with small .22 caliber bullets (far
less lethal than .38's and .45's). He would have had to score 50 head or heart shots to accomplish such an amazing feat.
In addition to the impossible (and invisible) body count, the act of fiction managed to heavily
hit upon three propaganda themes at one time:
- Sympathy for SDT (sodomites, dykes & trannies)
- Anti-gun hysteria
- Anti-Muslim hysteria
On the heels of this terrible Trifecta, Homo-Obongo wasted little
no time breaking out into his scripted "Comforter-in-Chief" routine:
“We
know enough to say this was an act of terror and act of hate. While
the
violence could have hit any American community.
This is an especially heartbreaking day for our friends who are
lesbian,
gay, bisexual or transgender."
"Our friends?" Speak for yourself, faggot. (better get your "homophobic"
slurs out now before they become banned as "hate speech" TM).
The
conveeniently dead gunman, Omar Mateen, had, we are told:
"pledged
his support for ISIS and invoked the names
of the Boston marathon bombers in 911 calls made
amid his attack on the crowded venue, according to the FBI."
"ISIS" = B.S... The
Boston Smoke Bomb = B.S... A single gunman blasting at least 103 people = B.S.(2) Play it again Sugar, and bring the
Church Lady from Saturday Night Live along with you:
Omar Rambo: 50 dead & 53
wounded -- one bullet at a time (semi-automatic rifles do not spray bullets like Rambo's movie machine
gun). Who knew he had such talent with a gun? And why didn't the fags run away?
Another
"tell", as they say in poker parlance, is the usual
crisis acting "hand-to-the-mouth" and dry-eyed
crying routines. Other indicators include the dramatic carrying of
victims, to no place in particular,
by camera-friendly bystanders (don't they know how to call an ambulance?) and the corny scripted vigils that materialize
almost instantly.
Dry-eyed "crying", hands-to-the-face "mourners", instant cheesy vigils popping up all over
the world,"spontaneous" marketing logos.
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These ridiculous false false-flag
shooting attacks will only grow more and more
"deadly" with each passing event. The planners will not stop until
they either grab America's guns, or their
transparent tricks are finally called out. But who in the public arena
would dare
to call the Orlando "massacre" an impossible hoax?
Maybe, Donald Trump? Don't hold your breath.
Trump:
"Appreciate
the congrats
for being right on radical Islamic terrorism, I
don't want congrats, I want toughness & vigilance. We must be
smart!"
In
fairness
to Trump, if he were to actually question the
official account of this charade, the Piranha Press would tear him apart
and
Boobus Americanus would run away from him by the millions. In the land of the TV mind-slave, politicians are damned for
telling the truth --- and blessed if they don't. Fortunately, your intrepid member-supported bloggers (hint-hint)
here don't have to bite our tongues. Count on us to
keep shouting the unfiltered truth until the usual suspects finally
pull
the Internet plug on "hate speech" TM.
Even Rambo with a fully automatic machine
gun would be hard-pressed to match Omar's laughably high one-bullet-at-a-time body count -- 50 dead & 53 wounded!
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Boobus
Americanus
1: I read in the New York Times today that the lone
gunman down in Florida had recently pledged his allegiance to ISIS.
Boobus
Americanus
2:
Such a tragedy. I totally agree with Obama's
gun-control initiatives and sympathy for gay rights; but I also have to
agree
with Trump's tough stand on ISIS.
"
'I pledge allegiance,
to the black flag, of Isslamic Sstate of Isiss, and
to the terrorissm, for which it sstandss'..... My God Boobuss! You
really
are an ass-clown!"
(Something
wicked this way comes.)
The footage appears in the 2012 award-winning documentary The Big Fix, and shows Mateen speaking with a reporter while contracted to the security company G4S.
It comes as authorities continue to investigate the motive of Sunday's attack, which also wounded 53 people.
:: Orlando Gunman Seen At Gay Club Several Times
Video:
Mateen's wife Noor Salman is being questioned by the FBI and
authorities are also investigating whether the American-born gunman was
living a secret life as a gay man.
An official told the Associated Press investigators believe Ms Salman knew about the plot to attack Orlando's Pulse nightclub in advance.
At a Wednesday afternoon news conference, US prosecutor Lee Bentley would not speculate on what charges might be brought in the investigation.
But he said threats had been made against the local Muslim community, and he warned such intimidation would not be tolerated by the authorities.
The FBI is also looking into reports from patrons of the
club who claim Mateen was a regular at the venue and also used gay
dating apps.
Jim Van Horn, 71, said he saw Mateen multiple times at the venue's bar and talked to him once.
:: Killer Just Missed My Head - Orlando Survivor
"He was a homosexual and he was trying to pick up men," Mr Van Horn said.
"He would walk up to them and then he would maybe put his
arm around them or something and maybe try to get them to dance a little
bit or something."
One club regular, Ty Smith, told The Orlando Sentinel newspaper he had seen Mateen at least a dozen times.
He said: "Sometimes he would go over in the corner and sit and drink by himself.
"And other times he would get so drunk he was loud and belligerent.
"We didn't really talk to him a lot, but I remember him saying things about his dad at times," Mr Smith added.
"He told us he had a wife and child."
Some have suggested Mateen's familiarity with the club may explain why he chose Pulse, rather than other clubs closer to his home in Port St Lucie, about 130 miles (200km) south of Orlando.
It will never occur to anti-Muslim, anti-Arab and anti-Islam RACISTS and other fanatics and perverts to tell the truth about that young "Muslim" man who has been admittedly a friend of homosexuals for a long time, frequenting their Orgy Club and even seen drinking (what?) with Lesbians! Birds of a feather, either a homosexual himself or a bisexual!
SKY NEWS
Documentary Footage Shows Omar Mateen In 2010
The Orlando gunman is seen working as a
security guard during the clean-up operation following the 2010 Gulf of
Mexico oil spill.
22:09, UK,
Wednesday 15
June 2016
Footage has emerged showing Omar Mateen
working as a security guard in 2010, six years before he shot dead 49
people at an Orlando nightclub.
The 29-year-old is seen on duty as a guard during the
clean-up operation following the Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf
of Mexico.The footage appears in the 2012 award-winning documentary The Big Fix, and shows Mateen speaking with a reporter while contracted to the security company G4S.
It comes as authorities continue to investigate the motive of Sunday's attack, which also wounded 53 people.
:: Orlando Gunman Seen At Gay Club Several Times
An official told the Associated Press investigators believe Ms Salman knew about the plot to attack Orlando's Pulse nightclub in advance.
At a Wednesday afternoon news conference, US prosecutor Lee Bentley would not speculate on what charges might be brought in the investigation.
But he said threats had been made against the local Muslim community, and he warned such intimidation would not be tolerated by the authorities.
Jim Van Horn, 71, said he saw Mateen multiple times at the venue's bar and talked to him once.
:: Killer Just Missed My Head - Orlando Survivor
"He was a homosexual and he was trying to pick up men," Mr Van Horn said.
One club regular, Ty Smith, told The Orlando Sentinel newspaper he had seen Mateen at least a dozen times.
He said: "Sometimes he would go over in the corner and sit and drink by himself.
"And other times he would get so drunk he was loud and belligerent.
"He told us he had a wife and child."
Some have suggested Mateen's familiarity with the club may explain why he chose Pulse, rather than other clubs closer to his home in Port St Lucie, about 130 miles (200km) south of Orlando.
It will never occur to anti-Muslim, anti-Arab and anti-Islam RACISTS and other fanatics and perverts to tell the truth about that young "Muslim" man who has been admittedly a friend of homosexuals for a long time, frequenting their Orgy Club and even seen drinking (what?) with Lesbians! Birds of a feather, either a homosexual himself or a bisexual!
EXCLUSIVE: Inside the suburban home of a terrorist (Holy Shit!): Gunman's Star Wars-themed bathroom, child's Ninja Turtle backpack, a Christmas wreath on the door and books (?) - 'Crucial Matters in the Life of Muslim' and 'Being Palestinian Makes me Smile' (What about his Kama Sutra Book? I have one on my shelf as well as Salman's Satanic Verses!)
- Omar Mateen had been living in Apartment 107 at the Woodland Condominium in Fort Pierce since he was married to his first wife
- Mateen, 29, killed 49 people in the Orlando gay club Pulse on Sunday and injured 53 others before being shot dead by police
- Daily Mail has obtained photographs inside his Fort Pierce apartment where investigators did a sweep on Sunday
- The apartment is adorned with photos of his three-year-old son
- Loads of toys including a Spiderman bike, toy trucks and Mickey Mouse posters sit in sharp contrast to a ceremonial sword sitting front and center
- Bizarrely, a calendar is marked 'D-Day, 10 pm' on June 7th. The real D-Day is June 6th leaving open the question was he planning something sooner
- The horrific shootings took place in the wee hour of June 12
- Books about the Muslim faith can also be seen in the apartment as well as workout equipment
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19:26, 13 June 2016
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20:43, 13 June 2016
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It
is the apartment where the killer responsible for the massacre of 50
people inside gay Orlando nightclub Pulse had been living and plotting
out his horrific attack.
Omar
Mateen had been living in Apartment 107 at the Woodland Condominium in
Fort Pierce since he was divorced from wife Sitora Yusufiy in 2011. He
was living there with the woman believed to be his current wife and
mother of their three-year-old son, Noor Zahi Salman.
Daily Mail has obtained photographs inside the killer's apartment, where investigators did a sweep on Sunday.
The
walls of the apartment are adorned with photos of Mateen's
three-year-old son. Loads of toys including a Spiderman bicycle, toy
trucks and Mickey Mouse posters can be seen throughout the two-bedroom
home.
What
looks like a ceremonial sword sits proudly by the TV set in the living
room and workout equipment sits in a corner. Mateen was known to be
obsessed with his physique and had taken steroids.
The master bedroom has red sheets on the bed and a bureau is adorned with balloons, photos and bottles of a woman's perfume.
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Omar Mateen had been living in Apartment 107 at the Woodland Condominium in Fort Pierce since he was married to his first wife
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The shooter's living room looks normal and untouched, but investigators went through it on Sunday
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The master bedroom has red sheets on the bed and the bureau is adorned with balloons, photos and bottles of perfume
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Star Wars bedding and posters adorn the walls of Mateen's son's bedroom along with baseball hats and a Ninja Turtle backpack
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What looks like a ceremonial sword sits proudly by the TV set in the living room of Mateen's apartment
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Mateen weights sit in a corner of the home. He was obsessed with his physique and even took steroids
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June 7th at 10 pm is bizarrely marked
as 'D-Day' on a Mickey and Minnie Mouse calendar. The real D-Day is
June 6th. The horrific shootings took place in the wee hours of June 12 -
was Mateen planning something for the 7th?
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A picture of Mateen at a video games center show him and his son weilding electronic weapons
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Pictures of Mateen's son adorn the walls of the apartment in Fort Pierce
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All about family? Signs of Mateen's little boy, believed to be three year old are everywhere
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'Little boys are just superheroes in disguise,' says one sign on the wall
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Mateen had worked
for G4S since 2007, the world's largest security company formerly
called Wackenhut, which provides guards for US nuclear facilities
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Books like Muhammed: Who Is He and An
Explanation of the Last Tenth with Crucial Matters in the Life of a
Muslin are reading materials found in Mateen's home
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Mateen had a autographed copy of Being Palestinian Makes Me Smile by Amer Zahr
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The bathroom in Mateen's home has a Star Wars theme too with the towel, curtain and bathmat
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A picture of a mosque adorns one wall. But most of the walls in the apartment have family pictures
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A Spiderman bike is among the many toys in the apartment. Clearly Mateen's little boy was a fan of trucks and Legos
There
is a Mickey and Minnie Mouse calendar marked 'D-Day, 10 pm' on June
7th. The real D-Day is June 6th leaving open the question was Mateen
planning something sooner than the June 12 morning of horror.
Apartments
in the building rent for between $600 and $1,000 at the property. Daily
Mail Online learned exclusively that Mateen was earning $1,600 a month
from his job at G4S Secure Solutions in Jupiter.
Law
enforcement officers surrounded the complex on Sunday, and even brought
in bomb detonation equipment as they searched Mateen's apartment.
Mateen
earned an associate's degree in criminal justice from Indian River
State College in Fort Pierce, and expressed interest in joining the
police force.
Instead,
he worked as a security officer, a fact that comforted other members of
the Islamic Center of Fort Pierce where he worshipped, Syed Shafeeq
Rahman, the head of he mosque, said.
Sitora Yusufiy, Omar Mateen's first wife, described how he 'seemed like a normal human being' at first.
Following
a brief romance after the two met online, the pair married in 2009 and
moved into the two-bedroom home in Fort Pierce.
‘After
a few months he started to beat me,’ she said. ‘He was mentally
unstable… he was obviously disturbed. I know he had a history of
[taking] steroids.
'He
was not a stable person. He would just come home and start beating me
up because the laundry wasn’t finished or something like that.'
Yusufiy
said that Mateen owned a gun during their marriage, was ‘short
tempered’ and would express ‘hate towards things’. She would not reveal
if he had any homophobic views.
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Omar Mateen was
living in Apartment 107 at the Woodland Condominium in Fort Pierce since
2011. Police swarmed the area on Sunday
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Law enforcement officers work on the investigation at the Woodlands Condominium Complex, in Fort Pierce, Fla.
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A St. Lucie County command center was set up near Mateen's apartment
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Bomb exploding equipment was brought in by the sheriff's office on Sunday
Her parents eventually intervened and the two separated, although their divorce wasn't finalized until 2011.
After
spending most of the day searching Omar Mateen’s Port St. Lucie home,
cops and the FBI moved on to the custom-built four-bedroom home a couple
of blocks of north on Bayshore Boulevard where his parents live.
Neighbor,
Tony Schneider, a retired deputy sheriff told Daily Mail Online that
Seddique and Shahla Mateen are ‘the nicest people in the world.’
‘They
are very Americanized, he said. ‘Just very good neighbors. I have known
them for six years and have never had any problems with them.
‘My heart goes out to them — of course if they were involved they can rot in hell, but I otherwise I feel so sorry for them.’
Schneider
said that Seddique — who he knows as Sid — can often be seen in his
yard and walking up and down the street. He said he did not know his
wife nearly as well.
‘I
believe he is in insurance, he has done well for himself and they have
three daughters, all went to college, who I believe are in the medical
field.
‘But I didn’t know the son. I saw his picture on television this morning and I recognized him, but he only came here rarely.’
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VERY NICE LOOKING SODOMITES!
The Americans murdered by an ISIS fanatic as they partied: Brand manager, pharmacy technician and theme park employee are among the 49 shot dead by terrorist in Florida gay club slaughter
- A gunman with an assault rifle opened fire inside Pulse nightclub, killing 49 before dying in a gunfight with police
- Omar Mateen, 29, of Port St. Lucie in Florida, pledged allegiance to ISIS before opening fire early on Sunday
- He reportedly laughed as he sprayed bullets into the crowded club, which had more than 300 people inside
- So far, 47 victims have been identified by the city of Orlando on its website, which is working to notify families
- A GoFundMe page to help the victims of the shooting has raised more than $1million in less than 12 hours
- See more news on the Orlando shooting as victims killed by ISIS fanatic in Florida club are named
By
Mia De Graaf
and
Khaleda Rahman In New York
and
Louise Boyle In Orlando, Florida, For Dailymail.com
Published:
23:29, 12 June 2016
|
Updated:
20:38, 13 June 2016
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These are the victims of the worst mass shooting in American history.
Terrorist
Omar Mateen shot dead 49 people and wounded at least 53 more during the
massacre at the Pulse nightclub in Orlando in the early hours of Sunday
morning – and called 911 just before the attack to pledge allegiance to ISIS.
Mateen,
of Port St. Lucie in Florida, reportedly laughed as he sprayed bullets
into the crowded club before he was shot dead by a SWAT team several
hours after launching his horrific massacre with a legally bought
assault rifle and pistol.
He told the 911 dispatcher he was inspired by ISIS.
However,
other parts of the phone call suggest his motives were confused. The
29-year-old also pledged allegiance to the Boston Marathon bombers - who
were not inspired by ISIS - and to the Florida-born suicide bomber who
killed himself for the Al-Nusra Front, a group in conflict with ISIS.
As
the FBI attempts to make sense of the devastating attack, rescue teams
have been working to name the innocent people who lost their lives.
So far, 47 victims have been officially identified by the city of Orlando on its website.
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Gilberto Ramon Silva Menendez (left) and Martin Benitez Torres (right) who were amongst the 49 who were shot inside the club
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Deonka
Drayton, 32, (left) along with Luis S. Vielma, 22, have been named by
Orlando officials as two of the 49 people who were killed
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Mercedez
Flores, 26, (left) and Amanda Alvear, 25, who were best friends, were
together at Pulse nightclub when they were gunned down
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Luis Daniel Wilson-Leon, 37 (left) and partner Juan Carlos Mendez Perez, 35, were shot dead in Orlando's Pulse nightclub
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Edward
Sotomayor Jr. (left) and Stanley Almodovar III (right) were the first
victims identified in the aftermath of the worst mass shooting in
American history
VICTIMS: 47 IDENTIFIED SO FAR
On
Sunday, Edward Sotomayor Jr., 34; Stanley Almodovar III, 23; Luis Omar
Ocasio-Capo, 20; Juan Ramon Guerrero, 22; Eric Ivan Ortiz-Rivera, 36;
Peter O. Gonzalez-Cruz, 22; Luis S. Vielma, 22 and Kimberly Morris, 37,
were confirmed dead.
In
the early hours of Monday morning, Eddie Jamoldroy Justice, 30; Darryl
Roman Burt II, 29, Deonka Deidra Drayton, 32; Alejandro Barrios
Martinez, 21; Anthony Luis Laureanodisla, 25; Jean Carlos Mendez Perez,
35; and Franky Jimmy Dejesus Velazquez, 50, were added to the list.
Later
on Monday morning the authorities announced more names of the 50 who
died: Amanda Alvear, 25; Martin Benitez Torres, 33; Luis Daniel
Wilson-Leon, 37; Mercedez Marisol Flores, 26; Xavier Emmanuel Serrano
Rosado, 35; Gilberto Ramon Silva Menendez, 25; Simon Fernandez, 31;
Oscar Aracena-Montero, 26; Enrique L. Rios, Jr, 25; Miguel Angel
Honorato, 30; Javier Jorge-Reyes, 40; Joel Rayon Paniagua, 32; Jason
Benjamin Josaphat, 19; Cory James Connell, 21; Juan P. Rivera Velazquez,
37; Luis Daniel Conde, 39; Shane Evan Tomlinson, 33; Juan
Chevez-Martinez, 25; Jerald Arthur Wright, 31; Leroy Valentin Fernandez,
25; and Tevin Eugene Crosby, 25.
In
the afternoon, authorities identified another nine victims: Jonathan
Antonio Camuy Vega, 24; Jean C. Nives Rodriguez, 27; Rodolfo
Ayala-Ayala, 33; Brenda Lee Marquez McCool, 49; Yilmary Rodriguez
Sulivan, 24; Christopher Andrew Leinonen, 32; Angel L. Candelario-Padro,
28; Frank Hernandez, 27; Paul Terrell Henry, 41; Antonio Davon Brown,
29; and Christopher Joseph Sanfeliz, 24.
Shortly
after making the 911 call, Mateen entered the crowded nightclub at
around 2am carrying an AR-15 and started spraying the helpless crowd
with bullets.
Witnesses
said he fired relentlessly - 20 rounds, 40, then 50 and more. In such
tight quarters, the bullets could hardly miss. He shot at police. He
took hostages. Around 5am, authorities sent in a SWAT team to rescue
them, Police Chief John Mina said.
The shooter exchanged gunfire with 14 police officers at the club, which had more than 300 people inside.
'He
had an automatic rifle, so nobody stood a chance,' said Jackie Smith,
who had two friends next to her get shot. 'I just tried to get out of
there.'
When
the gunfire finally stopped, 49 were dead and dozens critically
wounded. Thirty-nine of the dead were killed at the club, and 11 people
died at hospitals, the mayor said.
EDWARD SOTOMAYOR JR, 34
On
Sunday, the first of the victims named was Edward Sotomayor, who worked
as the national brand manager for ALandChuck Travel, a company that
specialized in vacations for the gay community.
His boss, Al Ferguson, said Sotomayor's partner was outside the nightclub putting something in the car when the shots rang out.
He
got a text from Sotomayor telling him he was safe in the bathroom and
not to come back into the club. Sotomayor texted again 20 minutes later
to say he was OK. That was the last his partner heard from him, Ferguson
said.
Sotomayor
was a legend in the industry, Ferguson added. He booked tours for
entertainer and drag queen RuPaul and put together the first gay cruise
to Cuba last year. He was going to announce a second trip on Sunday, but
was killed.
'Anyone who booked gay cruises knew Sotomayor,' Ferguson told Reuters. 'He was a great man.'
In an Instagram post published on Sunday, RuPaul's Drag Race judge Michelle Visage called Sotomayor 'a joy.'
'I loved you on so many levels. You were SO SO special and will never be forgotten,' she wrote. 'I promise you that.'
David
Sotomayor, who lives in Chicago and identified himself as the victim's
cousin, described him as a caring, energetic man known for wearing a
silly top hat on cruises.
He
told the AP that Edward worked for a company that held gay cruises and
often traveled to promote the company's events. 'He was just always part
of the fun,' he said.
The
pair discovered they were related after meeting at Orlando's annual Gay
Days festival around a decade ago. They texted regularly and kept in
touch, last seeing each other earlier this year at a filming of the
television reality show 'RuPaul's Drag Race,' David said.
David Sotomayor is a drag queen who appeared on a season of the show using the name 'Jade.'
He said Edward Sotomayor supported him and often sent him Facebook messages. They last exchanged messages last week.
'You
never think that's going to be the last time you speak to him,' David
Sotomayor said. 'It's just heartbreaking to know it just can happen
anytime.'
STANLEY ALMODOVAR III, 23
Neighbors
of Almodovar, a 23-year-old pharmacy technician, said his parents had
recently moved back to Puerto Rico after his mother became ill with
cancer, Reuters reported. He was the youngest in the family.
But
his mother Rosalie Ramos, 51, had been in Orlando at the time of the
shooting and paid tribute to her son, calling him a 'happy man with a
big heart.'
She had prepared a tomato-and-cheese dip for him to eat when he came home from his night out and gone to bed.
She was awakened by a call at 2am telling her something had happened.
Ramos
revealed her panic after receiving a call that informed her that her
son had been shot. 'I was hoping maybe [he was shot in] the hand or the
leg,' she told the Orlando Sentinel. 'You can survive [a gunshot to] the leg.'
But Almodovar was shot three times, in the chest, stomach and side of his body. He died at Orlando Regional Medical Center.
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Luis Omar Ocasio-Capo (left) and Eric Ortiz-Rivera (right) also died in the shooting at Pulse nightclub, authorities have said
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Peter Ommy
Gonzalez-Cruz (pictured), who worked at UPS and lived in Orlando,
Florida, and Kimberly Morris (right) was also named as victims
She added that her son had posted a Snapchat video of himself singing and laughing on his way to Pulse nightclub.
'I wish I had that (video) to remember him forever,' she told the newspaper.
A
friend, Hazel Ramirez, told the Washington Post she also saw the video
from Almodovar on Snapchat and learned on Sunday afternoon what had
happened.
Ramirez described Almodovar as 'kind, but sassy,' and someone who was comfortable with his own sexual identity.
'He
was so proud of who he was,' she told the Post. 'He would do his makeup
better than anyone else. It was so easy to be myself with him.
Sabiel
Rivera, 30, who is a neighbor of Almodovar in Clermont, Florida, told
Daily Mail Online that he 'was a cool guy, who was very humble and never
got into any trouble.'
It is believed he shared a top floor apartment with his mother.
Originally from
Springfield, Massachusetts, he was living in Clermont, according to his
Facebook page, which has been flooded by friends paying tribute in the
aftermath of the tragedy.
'Rest in peace my friend, wrote Brian Garcia. 'You were always so full of joy Stanley, we will miss you buddy.'
Mark Nielson added: 'We'll miss you Stanley. You made an impact on everyone that you came around. A good person and friend.'
He graduated from East Ridge High School in Clermont in 2011 before studying at Anthem College, his family said.
JUAN RAMON GUERRERO, 22, and CHRISTOPHER LEINONEN, 32
Boyfriends Juan Ramon Guerrero and Christopher Leinonen died alongside each other in the massacre.
Guerrero
was described by friends as a 'beautiful soul'. He worked as a
telemarketer and was a student at the University of Central Florida.
The
22-year-old came out to his family for the first time this year when he
started dating his boyfriend 32-year-old Christopher Leinonen, who was
also killed in the massacre (see section below).
According
to his cousin Robert, Guerrero was so concerned about how his family
would react to his sexuality that he only came out to his parents at the
beginning of this year.
When he did, they were 'very accepting,' the 19-year-old said.
'As long as he was happy, they were OK with it.'
He was in a relationship with someone that his relatives came to see as a member of the family, he said.
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Juan Ramon
Guerrero, 22, was described by friends as a beautiful soul. He came out
to his family this year and had a happy relationship with boyfriend
Christopher Leinonen, who was also killed. Pictured: left and right in
the blue t-shirt next to Leinonen
Robert
said he began to worry about his cousin when he heard about the
shooting at a club he knew Guerrero sometimes visited. Later in the day,
his worst fears were realized.
'He
was always this amazing person and he was like a big brother to me,' he
said. 'He was never the type to go out to parties, would rather stay
home and care for his niece and nephew.'
Friends and family have paid to Guerrero on his Instagram page, calling him a 'beautiful soul.'
'So unfair what happened to you. RIP. I hope the light will rule out all darkness,' said one comment.
Christopher
Leinonen, 32, was identified among the dead late on Monday afternoon,
long after Juan. Before his name appeared on the list, his
mother Christine was one of the many relatives who was waiting
desperately for news.
She drove to Orlando at 4am after learning of the shooting from a friend of her son who was at Pulse and was missing.
She
had not heard from her son and feared the worst. 'These are nonsensical
killings of our children,' she said, sobbing. 'They're killing our
babies!'
Speaking outside the center this morning, Leinonen sobbed as she told ABC News that she had been waiting hours for information on her son.
'I
haven't heard anything,' she said. 'I have been waiting. I have been
waiting by the emergency room, see if anybody gets called in.
'They
said there's a lot of dead bodies at the club and that's a crime scene
and they can't identify anybody so it could be hours and hours before we
find out.
'The
hospital said there are some bodies at the hospital that came in and
they died. They are not identifiable yet either. And that there a few
who are in a critical conditions who aren't identified yet.'
She said her son's friend Brandon Wolf survived by hiding in a bathroom and running out as the bullets flew.
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Juan Guerrero (left), who has been
named as one of the 49 people to have lost their lives, is pictured with
his boyfriend Christopher Leinonen (right)
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Christine Leinonen (pictured with her
son Christopher Leinonen) drove to Orlando at 4am after learning of the
shooting from a friend of her son, who was at Pulse
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Christine Leinonen pictured outside the club before her son was found and identified as one of the dead
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LUIS OMAR OCASIO-CAPO, 20
Friends and family paid tribute to Capo on Facebook, who they called 'Omar' in tributes.
His
aunt Carla Ocasio called him her 'dear nephew' and shared a photo of
the 20-year-old that said 'dance freely in the heavens.'
Another
family member Robert said: 'God bless us all and give us strength in
our time of need. Lord guide us with your light so we don't live in fear
of the darkness evil brings.'
Claudia Mason said that she worked with Capo at Target in Kissimmee, Buzzfeed reported.
'He
lit up any area he worked in, especially Starbucks,' she wrote. 'So sad
that his life was cut so short by such an evil person.'
ERIC ORTIZ-RIVERA, 36
Ortiz-Rivera
was a 'goofball' who loved to dance and had been married to his husband
for around a year, his cousin Orlando Gonazalez, 26, told the New York Times.
Ortiz-Rivera,
who was originally from Dorado, Puerto Rico, studied at the Univercidad
Central de Bayamon there, his Facebook page said.
Before
his death, Ortiz-Rivera, who was nicknamed Shaki, lived in downtown
Orlando with his husband and worked at a Party City and a Sunglass Hut.
But he had other interests, Gonzalez said, describing his late cousin as 'artistic' and a talented hairdresser.
'We
always went to clubs together,' Gonzalez said, adding that Ortiz-River
liked house music, or 'anything he could dance to, pretty much.'
'His husband called me in the morning,' Gonzalez told The Times. 'He was hysterical trying to find him.'
A
friend paid tribute to him on Facebook, writing: 'I have no words to
describe this great friend and human being, and above all, my brother.
Everyone who knows us knows what a great friendship we shared and what a
great man he was. I adore you. You'll always be in my heart. How empty
you've left us.'
EDDIE JUSTICE, 30
Justice, a 30-year-old accountant, lived in downtown Orlando.
He texted his mother from inside Pulse when the massacre began.
'Mommy
I love you,' he wrote at 2.06am. She texted back: 'u ok'. He said,
'Trapp in bathroom' then adding 'In club they shooting'. He said he was
going to die, and asked her to call 911.
In his last text he said the shooter was in the bathroom with him and that he was a terrorist.
Justice's friends have described him as a friendly, vibrant person who loved his mother.
'He’d give you the shirt off his back. He always brought the life to the party,' his cousin Jeff told the Palm Beach Post.
A friend created a GoFundMe page to support his family, and wrote: 'Eddie loved his mother and was a momma's boy at heart. His mom is his best friend.'
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Eddie Justice (pictured) an accountant who lived in downtown Orlando, was named as one of the victims early on Monday morning
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On Sunday,
Mina Justice (left) was outside the club trying to contact her son,
Eddie, who texted her (right) when the shooting happened and asked her
to call police. He was later confirmed dead
ANTHONY LAUREANO DISLA, 25
Laureano Disla was born in Puerto Rico.
He studied elementary education at the Universidad del Sagrado Corazón in San Juan.
After graduating in 2010 he moved to Orlando where he started performing as the drag act Alanis Laurell.
Videos online show Alanis performing Latin-style acts, such a Spanish-language version of Toni Braxton's Un-Break My Heart.
Laureano Disla was at Pulse's Latin night on Saturday with his cousin.
In
a tribute posted online on Monday, Drag Around The World said Laureano
was 'an amazing performer and a beautiful person inside and out.'
'She will be missed deeply. You are now a angel looking down at all of us,' the statement read.
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Tragic: Anthony Laureano Disla (pictured), 25, was gunned down. He performed as a fiery Latina drag queen called Alanis Laurell
XAVIER EMMANUEL SERRANO ROSADO, 35
Rosado, father to one five-year-old, was a professional dancer for Disney and Universal.
Salsa was his specialism, and he went by the stage name 'Eman'.
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Emmanuel Serrano Rosado, father to one five-year-old, was a professional
dancer for Disney and Universal under the name Eman
SHANE EVAN TOMLINSON, 33
Tomlinson was a gifted singer who performed with the cover band Frequency Saturday.
Hailing from North Carolina, he graduated from East Carolina University in Greenville with a degree in communications.
The 33-year-old regularly performed at Orlando's Blue Martini club, as well as private events.
He was due to perform three shows at Blue Martini this month.
PETER OMMY GONZALEZ-CRUZ, 22
Gonzalez-Cruz worked at UPS and lived in Orlando, Florida, according to his Facebook page.
Friends
and family mourned his death online, with one friend writing: 'A great
person with a beautiful smile. I will always remember you, friend.'
In a Facebook post, his mother thanked everyone for their condolences.
'I
thank you from the bottom of my heart for all the love that you have
shown me regarding my son,' she wrote. 'I will keep you informed. As a
mother, I feel a deep and immense pain as everyone else who's going
through this.'
LUIS VIELMA, 22
Vielma was a beloved member of the team at Universal Studios.
High
school friend Eddi Anderson told the Tampa Bay Times that Vielma loved
his job at the Wizarding World of Harry Potter and was known for his
pleasant attitude and warm demeanor.
Josh
Boesch, who worked with Vielma at Universal, told the Orlando Sentinel:
'He was always a friend you could call. He was always open and
available.'
Vielma 'just wanted to make people smile,' another co-worker, Olga Glomba, said.
He was
a student at Seminole State College of Florida and worked at Universal
Orlando as a production assistant on the Harry Potter and the Forbidden
Journey ride, according to his Facebook page.
J.K.
Rowling tweeted a tribute, writing: 'Luis Vielma worked on the Harry
Potter ride at Universal. He was 22 years old. I can't stop crying.
#Orlando'
'Can't
believe Luis Vielma is really gone,' wrote Jaime Bustos on Facebook.
'RIP my friend. Your memories, jokes, laughter, and personality well
never be forgotten. Always meant to catch up with you but... it seems
that moment has passed.'
Theresa Perpetua Rivera, of Deltona, Florida, said she knew Vielma through through her church's youth group ministry.
'My
heart is so saddened by all the hate and horrible violence that has
been going on in the world and now right here in our own backyard,' she
wrote on Facebook. 'Today we lost an amazing young man who had the heart
and the spirit of an Angel. He was such a blessing to those who knew
him.'
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J.K. Rowling tweeted a tribute to Luis
Vielma, writing: 'Luis Vielma worked on the Harry Potter ride at
Universal. He was 22 years old. I can't stop crying. #Orlando'
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ORLANDO SHOOTINGS TIMELINE
2:02am - Sunday, June 12 -
Suspect Omar Mateen tries to enter Pulse nightclub armed with assault
rifle and and handgun and is spotted by a uniformed officer.
The two exchange fire outside the club - but Mateen manages to enter the nightclub holding 320 people while still firing.
The shooting then developed in a hostage situation.
2:09am
- Pulse nightclub posts a message to their Facebook desperately telling
those inside 'Everyone get out of pulse and keep running'.
5.05am - Three hours after the first shooting began, a SWAT team rushed inside to rescue hostages and confront Mateen.
Members
of the SWAT team detonated a controlled explosion to confuse Mateen and
then nine officers exchange gunfire with terrorist - shooting him dead.
SWAT officers manage to free 30 hostages who dashed to safety.
5:35am - Orlando police confirm that the shooter is dead.
8:00am - Officials with the FBI deem the incident to be 'domestic terrorism'.
9:40am - The shooter was officially identified as 29-year-old Omar Mateen of Port St. Lucie.
10:20am
- At a press conference Mayor Buddy Dyer makes the announcement that 49
people have died and 53 injured in what is now the worst mass shooting
in the history of the United States.
11.54am - US Senator Bill Nelson and California congressman Adam Schiff claimed Mateen had pledged his allegiance to ISIS
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Hundreds gathered on the south steps
of the Texas State Capitol in Austin, Texas, to hold a vigil for the
people killed in the attack
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People gathered for a vigil to honor the victims of the mass shooting at Eola Lake Park in Orlando, Florida, on Sunday evening
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Lit candles are seen during a vigil to honor the 49 people who were killed in the mass shooting at Eola Lake Park in Orlando
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People light candles on the ground at
the site of a vigil for the victims of the Orlando shooting, in
Atlanta, Georgia, on Sunday
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A lantern was launched members of the community gathered for a vigil at Eola Lake Park in Orlando on Sunday evening
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49 people were killed and a further 53
taken to hospital, most in critical condition, after a gunman opened
fire in Pulse nightclub in the early hours of Sunday morning. Above,
people gathered at Eola Lake Park to mourn the victims on Sunday evening
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Members and supporters of the LGTBQ
community attend a candlelight vigil outside the White House in
Washington to honor the victims
KIMBERLY MORRIS, 37
Morris,
from Torrington, Connecticut, moved to Orlando just months ago and had
taken a job at Pulse nightclub as a bouncer, the Orlando Sentinel
reported.
'She
was so excited,' her ex-girlfriend Starr Shelton told the newspaper.
'She'd just started working there and told me how she was thrilled to
get more involved in the LGBT community there,' Shelton said.
Friends described Morris, who was known as 'KJ', as a kind, sweet person.
Narvell
Benning met Morris when they were in college at Post University in
Waterbury, Connecticut, where Benning said they both played basketball.
'I
can't think of a time when I did not see a smile on her face,' Benning
told the Sentinel. 'I'm so thankful of the good memories I have of her.
This is just unreal.'
Morris
had previously lived in Massachusetts before moving to Orlando, had
been working as a bouncer at Pulse on the night of the shooting.
Before she was confirmed dead, Nelson Roman, an LGBT leader in Holyoke, Massachusetts, told Western Mass News: 'She used to perform out here, was a bouncer who was working last night, and we still have no info on her.'
Friends and family took to Morris' Facebook page, urging her to contact them before receiving the news.
'Unfortunately
I just received news that Kim did not make it,' Patrick Tyning
wrote. 'R.I.P. Kim , I haven't seen you in a couple of years but had the
pleasure of working with you and we had some great times. You were
taken way too soon.'
'I'm
broken,' added Ana DeJesus Decker. 'What a wonderful person I had the
pleasure of knowing in my younger years. Loved her like a little
sister.'
WOUNDED VICTIMS
Marissa Delgado, who lives in a building near Almodovar, suffered critical injuries and remains in hospital after the shooting.
Her co- workers expressed their shock to Daily Mail Online.
Davonte
Phillips, 19, who works with Delgado at the local Circle K gas station
near their apartment buildings, said that she had been shot six times.
Jenny
Vergara, who also works at the gas station, said that they had been
informed Marissa had lost a lot of blood and wouldn't be coming into
work for a while.
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Friends and family gathered outside Orlando Regional Medical Center to see if their loved ones were safe after the shooting
A hotline has been set up for concerned family members to call for information about their loved ones
$1MILLION RAISED IN LESS THAN 12 HOURS TO SUPPORT VICTIMS OF TRAGEDY
A GoFundMe
page, set up by Equality Florida, the state's LGBT civil rights
organization, to support the victims of the shooting, has raised more
than $1million in less than 12 hours.
Equality
Florida issued a statement on the shooting, saying: 'We are heartbroken
and angry that senseless violence has once again destroyed lives in our
state and in our country.
'Gay
clubs hold a significant place in LGBTQ history. They were often the
only safe gathering place and this horrific act strikes directly at our
sense of safety. June commemorates our community standing up to
anti-LGBTQ violence at the Stonewall Inn, the nightclub that has become
the first LGBTQ site recognized as a national monument.
'We
have received a steady stream of emails and messages from those seeking
to help or to make sense of the senseless. We make no assumptions on
motive. We will await the details in tears of sadness and anger. We
stand in solidarity and keep our thoughts on all whose lives have been
lost or altered forever in this tragedy.'
The
page posted an update saying the funds raised will be going directly to
the victims and their families. It added that Equality Florida is
working with local organizations, who are also helping to raise funds,
to ensure the money is distributed properly.
Mateen
opened fire at Pulse night club, killing 49 people before dying in a
gunfight with SWAT officers, police said. There were around 320 people
inside the club at the time of the shootings and about 100 people were
taken hostage.
At
least 53 people were hospitalized, most in critical condition,
officials said. A surgeon at Orlando Regional Medical Center said the
death toll was likely to climb.
A
hotline has been set up in the city for those searching for people who
may have been at the club, and a Facebook safety check has been put in
place, allowing people to tag themselves and other friends to let people
know they are safe.
Relatives and friends, many in tears, have gathered outside the hospital to learn the fate of loved ones.
The city of Orlando, meanwhile, says it is will update its list of victims as families are notified.
'On this very difficult day, we offer heartfelt condolences to today's victims and their families,' a post on the website said.
'Our
City is working tirelessly to get as much information out to the
families so they can begin the grieving process. Please keep the
following individuals in your thoughts and prayers. #PrayforOrlando.'
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Members of the FBI, Orlando Police
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A soldier stands guard outside the Pulse nightclub, where a gunman opened fire in the early hours of Sunday morning
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Witnesses said he fired relentlessly -
20 rounds, 40, then 50 and more. Pictured above, the damaged rear wall
of the nightclub is seen
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A woman sits on the ground outside the nightclub while another partygoer, whose legs are covered in blood, stands beside her
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Orlando Police officers direct family
members away from a multiple shooting at the nightclub in Orlando,
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President Barack Obama called the
shooting an 'act of terror' and an 'act of hate' targeting a place of
'solidarity and empowerment' for gays and lesbians
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Trump congratulated himself, saying
that he 'called it' when he touted a ban on all Muslim immigrants
entering the United States in the wake of the terrorist attack in San
Bernardino, California, in December last year - despite the fact that
Mateen was an American citizen
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Friends and family members embrace outside the Orlando Police Headquarters during following the shooting at Pulse nightclub
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Ray Rivera, a DJ at Pulse Orlando nightclub, is consoled by a friend outside Orlando Police Department following the shooting
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Demetrice Naulings sobs outside the Orlando Police Headquarters where police are interviewing witnesses to the deadly attack
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Police, army and FBI surround the club after the gunman, wielding an assault rifle and a handgun, killed 49 people
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Authorities
were investigating the attack on the Florida dance club as an act of
terrorism. The shooter called 911 shortly before the attack and
referenced ISIS, FBI agent Ronald Hopper said.
He
was stopped by hero officers, who used a 'controlled explosion' to
distract Mateen before fatally shooting him and rescuing about 30
hostages who were hiding in the bathroom of the club. During the
gunfire, an officer was shot, but he was saved by his helmet.
At
a news conference on Sunday, Orlando Mayor Buddy Dyer said: 'Many were
saved by the heroic efforts of the men and women of the OPD, the Orange
County Sheriffs, Seminal County Sheriff's office.'
Pulse initially posted on its own Facebook page: 'Everyone get out of Pulse and keep running.'
Just
before 6am, the club posted an update: 'As soon as we have any
information, we will update everyone. Please keep everyone in your
prayers as we work through this tragic event. Thank you for your
thoughts and love.'
In addition to the assault rifle, the shooter also had some sort of 'suspicious device,' the police chief said.
At
first, officers mistakenly thought the gunman had strapped explosives
to the dead and that the club was booby-trapped. A bomb robot sent back
images of a battery part next to a body, Dyer said.
That
prevented paramedics from going in until authorities determined the
battery was something that fell out of an exit sign or a smoke detector.
The
robot was sent in after SWAT team members put explosive charges on a
wall and an armored vehicle knocked the wall down in an effort to rescue
hostages.
At
around 6am local time police tweeted: 'Pulse Shooting: The shooter
inside the club is dead.' In total, 39 people were killed inside the
club, two outside, and nine others died after being rushed to hospital.
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Shooter
Omar Mateen (left and right in his freshman year high school yearbook
photo in 2001), 29, from Port St. Lucie in Florida, opened fire at Pulse
night club in the early hours of Sunday morning
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A mini van pictured at the scene of
the shooting has been confirmed as the vehicle used by Omar Mateen, 29,
from Port St. Lucie in Florida
SNAPCHAT AUDIO CAPTURES SCREAMING HORROR AS GUNMAN FIRED 24 SHOTS IN JUST NINE SECONDS
A Snapchat video captured the sound of 24 gunshots being fired in just nine seconds at Orlando's Pulse nightclub on Sunday morning.
The footage obtained by WESH 2 News shows a dark street with police cars flashing in the distance.
In the background, there is the sound of one assault rifle firing two or more shots a second, and a woman's scream.
At the end of the video there is the sound of a gunshot from another gun.
The person filming says: 'Oh... my god... People are getting shot dude...'
A male voice next to him says: 'We need to get out of here.' But they stand there stunned as the gunshots keep going.
'This guy's firing out shots,' the friend adds.
The harrowing footage offers a glimpse into the horror that unfolded in Florida between 2am and 5am this morning.
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Hero officers used a 'controlled
explosion' to distract the shooter before fatally shooting him and were
able to rescue about 30 hostages who were hiding in the bathroom of the
club. During the gunfire, an officer was shot, but he was saved by his
helmet (pictured)
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Shortly before the attack, Mateen, who
was born in New York to Afghan parents, called 911 and pledged
allegiance to ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi. Pictured above,
emergency services at the scene
In
the aftermath of the attack, police departments across the country
stepped up patrols in neighborhoods frequented by the LGBT community.
Authorities
immediately began investigating whether it was an act of terrorism and
probing into the background of Mateen, a 29-year-old American citizen
who was born in New York to Afghan parents.
They
were looking into whether the shooter acted alone, according to Danny
Banks, an agent with the Florida Department of Law Enforcement.
'This
is an incident, as I see it, that we certainly classify as domestic
terror incident,' Orange County Sheriff Jerry Demings said.
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Shooter Omar Mateen (pictured), 29, from Port St. Lucie in Florida, opened fire at Pulse night club in the early hours of Sunday
Authorities
said they had secured a van owned by the suspect outside the club.
Meanwhile, a SWAT truck and a bomb-disposal unit were on the scene of an
address associated with Mateen in Fort Pierce, about 118 miles
southeast of Orlando.
Meanwhile,
the gunman's father Seddique Mir Mateen revealed his son recently got
angry when he saw two men kissing in Miami and said that might be
related to the assault.
'We
are saying we are apologizing for the whole incident,' he said. 'We
weren't aware of any action he is taking. We are in shock like the whole
country.'
When
asked if the gunman had a connection to radical Islamic terrorism,
Hopper said authorities had 'suggestions that individual has leanings
towards that.' Mateen's father said the attack had nothing to do with
religion, he said.
Mateen,
who had worked as a security guard, made a 911 call from the club in
which he professed allegiance to the leader of the Islamic State, Abu
Bakr al-Baghdadi, a law enforcement official said.
The
official was familiar with the investigation but was not authorized to
discuss the matter publicly and spoke on condition of anonymity.
The massacre is also the first instance in which ISIS has claimed responsibility for an attack on US soil.
The
terror group's Amaq news agency said on Sunday: 'The armed attack that
targeted a gay night club in the city of Orlando in the American state
of Florida which left over 100 people dead or injured was carried out by
an Islamic State fighter.'
During
the attack, Mateen also referenced the brothers who carried out the
Boston Marathon bombing in 2013, a Massachusetts State Police spokesman
said on Sunday.
'During
a conference call with federal law enforcement officials a short time
ago, Massachusetts State Police and other local law enforcement
authorities learned that the Orlando nightclub gunman, during his
rampage, pledged allegiance to ISIS and referenced the Tsarnaev
brothers,' state police spokesman David Procopio said in an e-mail.
The
Tsarnaev brothers killed three people and injured more than 260 in the
April 15, 2013, attack. Tamerlan Tsarnaev, 26, died four days later
during a gun battle with police while Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, now 22, has
been sentenced to death for his role in the attack.
Mateen,
who has a three-year-old son, was born in 1986 in New York and married
Sitora Alisherzoda Yusufiy, 27, who was born in Uzbekistan, in 2009.
The mother of his son appears to be a woman named Noor Zahi Salman, Buzzfeed reported.
However,
public records list the 30-year-old as living in Rodeo, California,
since last year. Salman appears to have separated from Mateen and
declined to comment to the Washington Post when reached at her current address.
Before
the shooting, he appeared to live a quiet life. The imam of the Florida
mosque that he attended for nearly a decade described him as a
soft-spoken man, who would visit regularly but would rarely interact
with the congregation.
'He
hardly had any friends,' Syed Shafeeq Rahman, who heads the Islamic
Center of Fort Pierce, said. 'He would come with his little son at night
to pray and after he would leave.'
Rahman
said Mateen never approached him regarding any concerns about
homosexuals. He added he himself had increasingly spoken out against
violence, noting that even inflicting a scratch on someone was against
the tenets of Islam.
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Sitora
Yusufiy (pictured left and right), the ex-wife of Orlando gunman Omar
Mateen claims he would beat her for doing household chores
ORLANDO GUNMAN'S EX-WIFE REVEALS HE BEAT HER FOR NOT DOING HOUSEHOLD CHORES
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Sitora Yusufiy (right) spoke to
reporters in Boulder, Colorado, revealing that her ex-husband
was bipolar and 'mentally unstable'
The ex-wife of Orlando gunman Omar Mateen says he was was 'mentally unstable' and claims he would beat her for not doing household chores.
Sitora Yusufiy met New York-born Mateen online in 2009, she told the Washington Post.Within
weeks, they decided to marry. She moved to Florida in March that year,
where they wed and moved into a two-bedroom home owned by Mateen's
family in Fort Pierce.
At
the start of their relationship, he was not particularly religious and
was not violent, she said. Despite owning a handgun, she said, the
then-21-year-old 'seemed like a normal human being' at first.
He was a private person and dedicated much of his time to exercise. But eventually he became violent.
'He
was not a stable person,' she told the Post. 'He beat me. He would just
come home and start beating me up because the laundry wasn't finished
or something like that.'
When
her parents found out about the beatings just months after the wedding,
they staged an intervention and rescued her from the home. 'They
literally saved my life,' she said.
Although
records show the couple didn't divorce for two years after the
marriage, Yusiufiy said she was actually only with Mateen for four
months because he was abusive.
She said he would not let her speak to her family and that family members had to come and literally pull her out of his arms.
The woman told the Post she has not had contact with Mateen since they finalized their divorce in 2011.
She
told the newspaper on Sunday she was still processing the news of
Mateen's massacre. 'I am still processing. I am definitely lucky,' she
said.
Later, at a news conference, she revealed her ex-husband was 'mentally unstable', 'mentally ill' and 'obviously disturbed.'
Yusifiy,
speaking to reporters in Boulder, Colorado, says Mateen was bipolar and
also had a history with steroids. She also revealed that he was
interested in pursuing a career as a police officer when they were
married.
'I
was woken up by my parents calling me, saying 'Sitora, wake up, Sitora,
wake up' and I thought something horrible happened. I'm like, 'oh my
God, what happened?' she said.
'I
called them and the first thing they told me was 'your ex-husband was
involved in a mass shooting and reporters are at our house and calling
us.'
'I
was devastated. Shocked,' she added. 'Started shaking and crying
because more than anything, I was so, so deeply hurt and heartbroken for
the people that lost their loved ones, and the families that are now
suffering.
'To be in some way affiliated at one point in my life to somebody that caused such a tragedy, it shook me.'
She
says that in the four months they were together, Mateen had cut her off
from her family and regularly beat her. She says that her family
visited her and saw she wasn't OK and rescued her from the situation.
Yusifiy
says they literally pulled her out of his arms. She says she left all
her belongings and has had no contact with him for seven or eight years.
She
says Mateen was religious, but she saw no signs of radicalism while she
was with him. Of the nightclub massacre, she added 'there was no sign
of any of this at all.'
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A
classmate from his Florida high school described Mateen as a typical
teenager who played football for a Martin County team in Stuart, a small
city about a 20-minute drive from Fort Pierce.
Samuel
King said he often spoke with Mateen after he graduated high school.
King worked at Ruby Tuesday's restaurant in the Treasure Coast Mall,
where Mateen worked at GNC, the nutrition store, he said.
King, who is openly gay, said the Mateen he knew until 2009 did not appear to be anti-gay.
'What
is shocking to me is that the majority of the staff at Ruby Tuesday's
when I worked there were gay,' he said. 'He clearly was not anti-(gay)
at least not back then.
'He did not show any hatred to any of us. He treated us all like the individuals we were. He always smiled and said hello.'
King
described Mateen as gregarious and talkative in the immediate years
after high school, but said 'something must have changed' since he last
saw him in 2009.
Mateen was
a security guard with a company called G4S. In a 2012 newsletter, the
firm identified him as working in West Palm Beach.
In
a statement sent Sunday to the Palm Beach Post, the company confirmed
that he had been an employee since September 2007. State records show
that Mateen had held a firearms license since at least 2011.
In
2013, Mateen made inflammatory comments to co-workers, and was was
interviewed twice, FBI agent Ronald Hopper said. He called those
interviews inconclusive.
Then,
in 2014, the F.B.I. discovered a possible tie between Mr. Mateen and
Moner Mohammad Abusalha, who had grown up in nearby Vero Beach and
became the first American suicide bomber in Syria, where he fought with
the Nusra Front. Again, the F.B.I. closed its inquiry after finding
‘minimal’ contact between the pair.
Hopper
said, officials found that Mateen had ties to an American suicide
bomber in 2014. He described the contact as minimal, saying it did not
constitute a threat at the time.
Mateen
purchased at least two firearms legally within the last week or so,
according to Trevor Velinor of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and
Firearms.
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POLICE ARREST MAN WITH WEAPONS WHO SAID HE WAS HEADED TO THE L.A. PRIDE PARADE
A
man who told police he was in town for the Los Angeles Pride festival
was found with assault rifles, ammunition and possible explosives in his
car.
The
discovery came on the same night the country was rocked by the worst
mass shooting in its history, at a gay club in Orlando where 49 people
were shot dead.
Officers
confronted the man after neighbors reported that he was knocking on
doors and 'loitering in the area', according to Santa Monica Police
spokesman Saul Rodriguez.
The
man, whose name has not been released, was driving a car with Indiana
plates. Police searched his white Acura after he said he planned to
attend the West Hollywood parade.
A
car inspection revealed three rifles, a substantial amount of
ammunition and 5lb of mixed tannerite, an ingredient that can be used to
make a pipe bomb, according to the Los Angeles Times.
There were also clips loaded and taped together, a camouflage outfit and a security badge.
Mayor
Eric Garcetti said it is believed the man is unrelated to the Orlando
massacre. The investigation has since been taken over by the FBI.
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Members of The Sisters of Perpetual
Indulgence carry a sign of remembrance for the victims in Orlando at the
46th annual Los Angeles Gay Pride Parade in West Hollywood, California
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Raquel Flores, of Richardson, Texas, holds up a sign at the Legacy of Love Monument on Sunday in Dallas
President
Barack Obama called the shooting an 'act of terror' and an 'act of
hate' targeting a place of 'solidarity and empowerment' for gays and
lesbians. He urged Americans to decide whether this is the kind of
'country we want to be.'
'Although
it's still early in the investigation we know enough to say that this
was an act of terror and an act of hate,' he said, making no reference
to ISIS in his brief remarks.
Furthering
his gun control message, Obama called the shooting spree a reminder of
how easy it is for someone to get a hold of a weapon that could kill
people in a 'school, or a house of worship, or a movie theater, or in a
nightclub'.
'And
we have to decide if that's the kind of country we want to be,' Obama
said. 'And to actively do nothing is a decision as well.'
The president started his remarks by addressing where things stood in the investigation.
'We
are still learning the facts. This is an open investigation. We have
reached no definitive judgment on the precise motivations of the
killer,' Obama said. 'What is clear is that he was a person filled with
hate.'
The
president said that the shooting was 'especially heartbreaking' for
Americans in the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender community.
'The
shooter targeted a nightclub where people came together to be with
friends, to dance and to sing, and to live,' Obama noted.
'The
place where they were attacked was more than a nightclub, it was a
place of solidarity, of empowerment, where people have come together to
raise awareness, to speak their minds and to advocate for their civil
rights,' he continued.
Obama
also noted the historical nature of the shooting – setting a record for
the nation's worst – before making his gun control pitch. The previous
deadliest mass shooting in the US was the 2007 attack at Virginia Tech,
where a student killed 32 people before killing himself.
A HISTORY OF VIOLENCE AGAINST PEOPLE AT GAY VENUES
The
deadly shooting early Sunday at a gay nightclub in Orlando, Florida,
follows several incidents of violence against people at gay venues. At
least 49 people were killed and at least 53 were wounded at the
nightclub. The shooter died during a shootout with SWAT team members.
A look at some incidents since 1973:
Dec. 31, 2013: About
750 people were celebrating New Year's Eve at a popular gay nightclub
in Seattle when Musab Mohammed Masmari poured gasoline on a carpeted
stairway and set it ablaze. No one was injured. Masmari was arrested a
month later as he prepared to leave the country. He apologized in a
statement to the court and said he didn't remember his actions because
he blacked out after drinking a bottle of cheap whiskey. He was
sentenced to 10 years in prison for arson.
March 1, 2009:
Three men threw rocks into a gay bar in Galveston, Texas, injuring two
male patrons. Brothers Lawrence Lewis III, 20 and Lawrneil Lewis, 18,
along with their cousin Sam Gray, 17, were charged with a hate crime for
throwing the rocks, which were apparently being used as doorstops, into
Robert's Lafitte bar.
Sept 22, 2000:
Ronald Gay walked into the Backstreet Cafe, a gay bar in Roanoke,
Virginia, and opened fire, killing one man and wounding six other
patrons, two of them seriously. Gay, a 55-year-old drifter who told
police he was upset over the slang connotation of his last name, pleaded
guilty to the murder of 43-year-old Danny Overstreet and was sentenced
to four life terms.
Oct. 7, 1998:
Gay college student Matthew Shepard was beaten into a coma while tied
to a fence outside the small college town of Laramie, Wyoming. He never
regained consciousness and died five days after the attack. His
attackers, Aaron McKinney and Russell Henderson, claimed their motive
was robbery to get money for drugs and not a hate crime. The crime
spurred debate on the effectiveness of hate crime laws. McKinney and
Henderson are serving life sentences for murder.
Feb. 21, 1997:
A nail-laden device exploded in a back room of the Otherside Lounge, a
nightclub in Atlanta with a mostly gay and lesbian clientele. The lounge
was crowded with about 150 people when the device went off on a rear
patio. Five people were wounded. Eric Rudolph was later convicted for
the bombing as well as bombings at Centennial Olympic Park and abortion
clinics in suburban Atlanta and Birmingham, Alabama. The 1996 Olympics
bombing killed one person and wounded 111, and the Birmingham bombing
killed a police officer and maimed a nurse. Rudolph is serving four life
sentences in federal prison.
Nov. 27, 1978:
San Francisco Mayor George Moscone and City Supervisor Harvey Milk, 48,
a gay-rights activist, were shot to death inside City Hall by
disgruntled former supervisor Dan White. Milk became one of the
country's first openly gay elected officials when he won a seat on the
San Francisco Board of Supervisors in 1977. White argued that junk food
fueled his rampage. His now infamous 'Twinkie defense,' supported by a
psychiatrist, worked. Instead of murder, White was convicted of
manslaughter. Thousands took to the streets in protest. White served a
little more than three years in prison before he committed suicide.
June 24, 1973:
The Upstairs Lounge fire in New Orleans' French Quarter killed 32
people. Most of those killed were trapped by burglar bars on three front
windows. A survivor said he believed someone dashed an inflammable
liquid on the wooden stairway to the crowded second-floor lounge and lit
it. The arsonist was never caught.
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Orlando Nightclub Shooting Another False Flag!
By Kevin Barrett on June 12, 2016
It sure walks, talks and quacks like one
All spectacular “left-wing” terror during the Cold War was by Operation Gladio; today, almost all “Islamic terror” is by Gladio B
They’re calling it “the worst US terror attack since 9/11.” A Muslim is being blamed for shooting up a gay nightclub in Orlando, Florida, killing more than fifty people.
Robert David Steele and 25 other experts explain today’s false flag epidemic in ANOTHER French False Flag: Bloody Tracks from Paris to San Bernardino
So let’s start there.
The entire world just spent the past week celebrating the life of Muhammad Ali – and Ali’s religion, Islam. It was the best PR week Islam ever had.
What’s more, we didn’t spend the past week celebrating “house Muslim” Uncle Tom style Islam. We just spent an amazing week cheering for Muhammad Ali, a Muslim fighter, a truth jihadi, a man willing to sacrifice everything for truth and justice…a man who famously cheered on armed Palestinian resistance with the immortal words:
“In my name and the name of all Muslims in America, I declare support for the Palestinian struggle to liberate their homeland and oust the Zionist invaders.”For the people behind the Islamophobia-based “clash of civilizations” – and the long list of false flags that created it – the past week of Muhammad Ali adulation was the ultimate PR nightmare. Meanwhile, during the exact same week, the Zionists have been panicking, fearing that Obama is going to take his revenge on Netanyahu by helping the Security Council pass a resolution essentially recognizing and officially establishing the State of Palestine within its pre-1967 borders.
The usual suspects may have responded with a massive publicity stunt in Orlando designed to make us forget Muhammad Ali … and make it much harder, if not impossible, for Obama to force the Israelis to withdraw from the territory they stole in 1967. In other words, this keeps the Clash of Civilizations going, and Israel expanding.
And who benefits from that? No Muslims that I can see.
Will the alleged perpetrator be interrogated to find out what he did or did not do, what his motives may have been, and who his associates were? Apparently not. Once again, we see the “perp shot dead, will never be interrogated or tried” syndrome. If international terrorism sponsored by groups like ISIS were really what it is made out to be, obviously live captures of all suspected terrorists would be the top priority, so interrogations could take place and terror networks taken down.
Another major indicator of “false flag” is the scale of the carnage. More than 50 dead? Only one shooter? And the guy was not even a special forces professional, but a flaky security guard?! (Who just happened to be on all the National Security radar screens, like so many others now-proven patsies.) Sorry, MSM, that doesn’t pass the smell test.
It’s funny how almost all “Muslim terrorists” are either ridiculously ultra-competent supermen able to take down skyscrapers and blow up the Pentagon using a couple of package-openers as their only weapons; kill ludicrously large numbers of people in mass shootings without any military training; or otherwise perform amazing feats of mass carnage … or else they are the world’s LEAST competent destruction-wreakers, dufuses who can’t get a match lit to try to blow up their own shoe, or who pack their underwear with sterno camping fuel and no detonator and somehow expect their crotch to explode.
Aside from the handful of supermen, practically every wannabe Muslim terrorist in the USA since 9/11 has been a total dufus. As Trevor Aaronson writes in The Terror Factory, almost all of the “Islamic terror plots” in the US since 9/11 have actually been FBI terror plots sold to some hapless patsy – a homeless street person, a retarded teenager – by a professional con artist.
Real terrorism usually falls in the middle of the bell curve: A handful of people (if any) get killed, and/or something of fairly modest size gets blown up. This is the pattern with the 94% of terrorist attacks that, according to the FBI, are not committed by Muslims, but rather by radical Jews, hispanics, leftists, animal rights activists, and so on.
But Muslims…whoah! They’re either supermen, defying the laws of physics to make skyscrapers disappear at free-fall acceleration through the path of most resistance or shooting huge crowds of people with a single Glock pistol…or they’re retarded kids, homeless people, schlemiels who couldn’t succeed in stepping on an ant if the FBI bought them size 20 shoes and released an ant colony next to their feet.
Statistically, the odds that Muslims would almost always either be way-too-lethal or else way-too-incompetent, while all other categories of terrorists would fall in the middle of the bell curve, must be about 20 trillion to one. Go ahead, pull up the statistics and do the math. The inescapable conclusion is that most plots and attacks attributed to Muslims are PR stunts concocted by the FBI and the Deep State, respectively.
We were told, almost immediately after the Orlando shooting, that “the shooter had pledged allegiance to ISIS.” Robert David Steele remarks: “The tape pledging allegiance to ISIS is patsy perfect.” And since ISIS is a Western public relations operation, a 4th generation warfare psy-op, the ISIS pledge in itself pretty much proves that the shooting was an inside job. (For details, see the section “Who is ISIS” in Another French False Flag.)
Mateen’s parents were born in Afghanistan, and he was ‘on the radar’ of U.S. officials for some time, but was not the target of a specific investigation, law enforcement officials told ABC News.”If the deep state had been running him, setting him up for an event like Orlando, he would indeed have been “on the radar” – but his handlers would have made sure he wasn’t targeted by any specific investigation. This is what happened prior to 9/11 when Lt. Col. Anthony Schaeffer of Able Danger was ordered by his superiors to put yellow sticky pads over the faces of Mohammed Atta and other future “9/11 hijackers” and forget he had ever heard of them.
So if the carnage in Orlando is real (and I haven’t yet seen any indications that it isn’t) how might it have been produced? The two obvious possibilities include:
(1) Professional killers i.e. multiple shooters may have done the damage and/or assisted the patsy, as appears to have been the case in many other false flags including the Fort Hood shooting, the Batman theater shooting, the Sikh Temple shooting, and the more recent Paris and San Bernardino shootings. Robert David Steele remarks: “Multiple shooters are detected by proper forensics on all bullet paths and all spent rounds. I doubt responsible forensics will be done (if 50 real bodies) am pretty sure that if it were, it would identify multiple weapons not found on the scene from the spent round signatures. This is all way too pat.”
(2) The patsy may have been given the equivalent of special forces training, perhaps with the aid of MK-Ultra style hypnotherapy, obviating the need for professional assistance.
Of course, it’s always possible that yet another Muslim-named super-terrorist just appeared out of nowhere and decided, for unfathomable reasons, to stage a murderous PR stunt that would erase “Muhammad Ali Week” from the public mind and help Netanyahu resist the international push to force Israel to withdraw from the Occupied Territories.
But though it’s still to early to know for sure, the above-cited circumstantial evidence suggests that we should place the Orlando nightclub shooting in the “strongly suspected false flag” category.
Courtesy of Robert David Steele
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Updates:
- For what it’s worth, there was an active shooter drill in Orlando six months ago.
- BeforeItsNews remarks:
“What’s the point? Well, what better means to galvanize the parents and children across America to take up the problem of gun control in earnest than by shooting up their adult and childhood playground.”
Editor’s note: The Disney World locale also reinforces the propaganda line: Muslims hate gays, Walt Disney, childhood happiness, families, mom, apple pie, free speech for cartoonists, etc. etc. THEY HATE OUR WAY OF LIFE SO WE MUST SUPPORT ISRAEL. -KB
- Pakistani defense analyst Zaid Hamid tweets: “Is this a co-incidence that the shooter worked for a private mercenary contracting outfit G4S which is close to Mossad/MI5/CIA??”
- Robert David Steele: “An alert reader has pointed out that only the stupid would accept the video taped pledge of allegiance to ISIS at face value. In a clandestine environment, the shooter could be told that he is auditioning for a possible operational promotion, and asked to do this, even given a script. A prospective candidate for access agent status going against ISIS would be assigned to increase mosque attendance and signs of commitment. There is NOTHING so far that suggests this individual had anything against gays or any reason to actually target gays. All signs point to a false flag event.”
- From George Washington’s blog: “Mateen worked for the British company G4S since 2007. Throughout that time, G4S has been what people might call a private, special operations military outfit. It is said to be three times the size of the British military. In 2012, a G4S employee was charged with making a bomb threat at the Olympics. Similar bomb threats were connected to G4S in 2013 and May 2016. Previously called Securicor, G4S provided security at all three airports affected by the 9/11 attacks. Securicor/G4S had bought Argenbright Security—the 9/11 airport security firm—just nine months before the 9/11 attacks. The company later ran operations at Guantanamo Bay. These facts suggest that all aspects of the attack, including initial reports of two suspects in the shootings and that someone was holding the door closed to prevent people from escaping, should be carefully investigated.”
- From Tomato Bubble: “The producers at LHS (Langley-Hollywood Studios) have really, and we do mean really, “pushed the envelope” with this latest stunt involving the “Pulse” sodomite club in Orlando, Florida — setting an astonishing, and we do mean astonishing “lone gunman” record of 50 kills plus 53 wounded! Eat you heart out Rambo! How was it possible that in a small crowded club, Rambomar was able to wield a long gun without someone being able to grab either him or the barrel before he could methodically shoot 103 people — a task which would have required at least 3 magazine replacements? Yes, they were queers, but dominant queers are often weight-lifting macho types who aren’t afraid to fight. And the submissive types would have ran for their lives in terror. How did he get past the club’s bouncers while wielding a rifle? How could he kill so many people, in the dark, with small .22 caliber bullets (far less lethal than .38’s and .45’s). He would have had to score 50 head or heart shots to accomplish such an amazing feat.”
- Reports of multiple shooters are coming in including this Facebook post:
- Eyewitness account from the Palm Beach Post who said he heard another gun from a different direction: “Fifty people were trying to jump over each other trying to exit the place. There was a guy holding the door and not letting us exit. He’s like ‘Stay inside, stay inside.’ As he is saying that, the shooter keeps getting closer and closer and the sound of the bullets is getting closer. Everyone starts to panic. People are getting trampled. Let us out, let us out!…I’m pretty sure it was more than one person. I heard two guns going at the same time. It was very, very crazy.’’
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Press TV: Orlando shooting false flag event aimed at demonizing Muslims
By Kevin Barrett on June 14, 2016
By Kevin Barrett, Veterans Today Editor
Now that we know Omar Mateen was gay, will the whole MSM script be re-written to blame gays instead of Muslims? Will Trump call for a ban on gays? Will he propose forcing all gays in America to register? The FBI apparently hopes not, since they are trying to silence witnesses who knew Mateen was gay, according to one of those witnesses, Mateen’s ex-wife Sitora Yusufiy.
The Guardian reports: “Jim Van Horn, 71, told the Associated Press Mateen was a ‘regular’ at the Pulse nightclub where the murders took place. ‘He was trying to pick up people. Men,’ he said. ‘He was a homosexual and he was trying to pick up men. He would walk up to them and then he would maybe put his arm round them or something … That’s what people do at gay bars. That’s what we do.’
A law mandating that all Muslims practice their religion would be just as constitutional as the other Muslim-related measures Trump is proposing. And since statistics show that practicing Muslims are associated with extremely low rates of crime, drug addiction, divorce, alcoholism, suicide, and other negative social indicators – as well as extremely low rates of terrorism, which is virtually always blamed on gay “Muslims,” “Muslims” with pink-haired stripper girlfriends, and other “Muslims in name only” – such a law would be good for taxpayers, society as a whole, and (especially) Muslims themselves.
Maybe Trump could even personally behead any Muslims who commit acts that are considered criminal and/or sinful under Islamic legal systems. Think of the TV ratings THAT would bring to his ongoing political reality show! “Donald Trump presents: The Daily Beheading!” The tens of thousands of FBI agents surveilling every mosque in America could focus on ferreting out un-Islamic behavior by nominal Muslims, capturing the culprits, and delivering them to the sword-wielding Trump to decapitate on live television. (When he talked about things “much worse” than waterboarding, maybe that was what he had in mind?)
Unfortunately, it won’t happen. Instead, the media will continue to use a mass shooting blamed on a gay man to demonize Islam. It makes me so angry I could almost behead somebody. (I wish the Democrats would protect me from myself by enacting sword-control legislation.)
On second thought, in lieu of rushing out in search of a sword and some choppable heads, I guess I’ll just keep venting my spleen on Press TV. Here are my two latest interviews.
-KB
The Orlando, Florida, nightclub mass shooting that killed dozens of people on Sunday looks like another false flag operation carried out by Blackwater mercenaries, not by Muslims, says Dr. Kevin Barrett, an American academic who has been studying the events of 9/11 since late 2003.
Dr. Barrett, a founding member of the Scientific Panel for the Investigation of 9/11 and founding member of the Muslim-Jewish-Christian Alliance, told Press TV on Monday that the shooting was “obviously conducted by the enemy of Islam, not by Muslims.”
The US Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) is investigating both domestic and international connections to the massacre that left 50 people, including the shooter, dead and 53 others injured on Sunday. The Daesh terrorist group reportedly claimed responsibility for the attack.
The suspect in the shooting, identified by US media as an alleged Daesh sympathizer named Omar Mateen, is a US citizen of Afghan descent from Port St. Lucie, Florida. He took hostages at the club and barricaded himself in the complex but was later killed by specially trained SWAT units.
Hours after the deadly shooting, presumptive Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump called on President Barack Obama to “immediately” resign from office and suggested Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton should suspend her White House bid over the issue.
“If Hillary Clinton, after this attack, still cannot say the two words ‘radical Islam’ she should get out of this race for the Presidency,” Trump said in a statement on Sunday.
“You don’t know whether to laugh or cry over this kind of thing. One thing is true though, Trump is right: Hillary should pull out of the race. Obama should resign and Trump should go dig a hole and lie down and shoot himself in the head because he is too stupid to live. All of these people are either too stupid or too evil to live,” he stated.
“We’re living in a world of Orwellian deception in which these slaughters and in some cases fake slaughters, because in some cases these are theatrical events, nobody even dies…In this case, I don’t know whether or not 50 people really died in Orlando, but one thing I can promise you – and stake of my life on – is that one former security guard did not kill 50 people. It did not happen. There’s no way that happened,” the analyst noted.
“And none of those weapons were recovered, because these were Blackwater type people, mercenaries, used to slaughter people; and then it gets blamed on the patsy as a public relations stunt. That’s what happened in Orlando,” Dr. Barrett observed.
We know that, given the tenor of the times, some will associate this tragedy with the religion of the perpetrator. (What religion? What perpetrator?) While we may never learn conclusively what motivated this misguided individual, many news sources ((Muslims believe in the RACIST news sources, now?) claim that he was motivated by his faith, which would be a reprehensible distortion of Islam adding the religion to the long list of innocent victims in this callous crime. Any such acts of violence violate every one of our Prophet’s teachings. For Muslims, that this carnage occurred in the blessed month of Ramadan—a month of charity, introspection, and self-purification—only adds to the foulness of this enormity. (TOTALLY IRRELEVANT HERE!)
Since September 11, 2001, many Muslims have been victims of collective guilt; yet, numerous Americans of good conscience have stood by their fellow citizens, despite differences in faith or lifestyle, including many members of the targeted community. Difference is no justification for violence. While most American Muslims adhere to a strict Abrahamic morality, the Quran is clear that its injunctions apply only to Muslims who choose to follow them: “There is absolutely no compulsion in religion.” In America, individuals are at liberty to pursue happiness as each sees fit; it is our cherished political right. Those of us who live in this country, irrespective of our beliefs, must respect the equality of all Americans under the laws of the land.
We feel compelled to state that it is an egregious offense against the culture and laws of America—as well as Islam’s—to place collective guilt on an entire community for the sins of individuals. “No soul bears the sins of another,” says the Quran.
Three days ago, Americans honored the memory of one of the greatest and most beloved men in American history: Muhammad Ali, who was a devout Muslim. The Islam Muhammad Ali followed is one of love, tolerance, and respect for all. American Muslims everywhere felt that he ended, once and for all, the vacuous claim that one cannot be both Muslim and American.
We, as American Muslims, follow the openhearted and inclusive Islam of Muhammad Ali and completely reject the hatred, provincialism, and intolerance of those who trample upon the rights of others, besmirching and defiling the name of Islam. The criminal who took the lives of dozens of patrons of the Orlando nightclub and injured many others was an aggressor, plain and simple. The Quran says, “Do not be brutal or commit aggression, for surely God does not love brutal aggressors.”
There are extremists in America and abroad who view the world through a Manichean lens: American Manicheans want Americans to see themselves as entirely “good” and all Muslims as entirely “evil.” Muslim Manicheans want Muslims to see themselves as entirely “good” and all Americans as entirely “evil.” This is a catastrophic recipe for unrelenting violence, and it must be rejected: We will not allow the extremists to define us, mold us in their benighted image, or sow the seeds of discord among us. We are one people, so let us all in good conscience and human solidarity reject this extremist narrative and assert our shared humanity and mutual respect for the sanctity of all human life. (IRRELEVANT AND TRASHY!
Signed, (BY FOOLS, IGNORAMUSES, AND COWARDS!)
BUT, THIS IS A LOT BETTER NEWS OR THE 22 LIFE SENTENCES FOR A NOTORIOUS WHITE PEDOPHILE AND RAPIST!
Now that we know Omar Mateen was gay, will the whole MSM script be re-written to blame gays instead of Muslims? Will Trump call for a ban on gays? Will he propose forcing all gays in America to register? The FBI apparently hopes not, since they are trying to silence witnesses who knew Mateen was gay, according to one of those witnesses, Mateen’s ex-wife Sitora Yusufiy.
The Guardian reports: “Jim Van Horn, 71, told the Associated Press Mateen was a ‘regular’ at the Pulse nightclub where the murders took place. ‘He was trying to pick up people. Men,’ he said. ‘He was a homosexual and he was trying to pick up men. He would walk up to them and then he would maybe put his arm round them or something … That’s what people do at gay bars. That’s what we do.’
So meet yet another “radical Islamic terrorist” whose lifestyle was radically un-Islamic – like Mohammed Atta, that lover of pork chops, cocaine, whiskey, prostitutes, and gambling junkets, according to many witnesses including his pink-haired stripper girlfriend Amanda Keller.Maybe instead of having Muslims register at DHS and wear gold crescent moons, Trump should consider forcing them to practice their religion. For it is the non-practicing, degenerate people with Muslim names who are consistently being blamed for virtually every major terrorist attack in the West since Atta and his crew of boozing, whoring druggies who never went near a mosque were (falsely) blamed for 9/11.
A law mandating that all Muslims practice their religion would be just as constitutional as the other Muslim-related measures Trump is proposing. And since statistics show that practicing Muslims are associated with extremely low rates of crime, drug addiction, divorce, alcoholism, suicide, and other negative social indicators – as well as extremely low rates of terrorism, which is virtually always blamed on gay “Muslims,” “Muslims” with pink-haired stripper girlfriends, and other “Muslims in name only” – such a law would be good for taxpayers, society as a whole, and (especially) Muslims themselves.
Maybe Trump could even personally behead any Muslims who commit acts that are considered criminal and/or sinful under Islamic legal systems. Think of the TV ratings THAT would bring to his ongoing political reality show! “Donald Trump presents: The Daily Beheading!” The tens of thousands of FBI agents surveilling every mosque in America could focus on ferreting out un-Islamic behavior by nominal Muslims, capturing the culprits, and delivering them to the sword-wielding Trump to decapitate on live television. (When he talked about things “much worse” than waterboarding, maybe that was what he had in mind?)
Unfortunately, it won’t happen. Instead, the media will continue to use a mass shooting blamed on a gay man to demonize Islam. It makes me so angry I could almost behead somebody. (I wish the Democrats would protect me from myself by enacting sword-control legislation.)
On second thought, in lieu of rushing out in search of a sword and some choppable heads, I guess I’ll just keep venting my spleen on Press TV. Here are my two latest interviews.
-KB
Press TV
has interviewed Kevin Barrett, an author and Middle East expert in
Madison, to discuss the Sunday mass shooting in Orlando, Florida.
A rough transcription of the interview appears below.
Press TV: How dangerous is this mixture of a prevalence of guns in a country and disenfranchised young men who want to jump on this terror bandwagon?
This is a very, very dangerous situation for people like Netanyahu and his party, the people who have been behind virtually all of the spectacular so-called Islamic terror attacks blamed on Muslims from September 11th through London, Madrid, Bali and more recently the two Paris attacks of 2015 and San Bernardino. We know all of those events were false flag events arranged by professionals and intelligence agencies and falsely blamed on Muslims. We have no reason to believe the official story of this event. We should assume that this is a false flag event carried out by the supporters of Netanyahu and the neoconservatives who have whipped up the clash of civilizations out of whole cloth through false flag terror events like this in order to pursue their geopolitical agenda.
Press TV: And along that line of reasoning, how do you think that Islamophobia is going to be? Donald Trump has tweeted saying that, ‘Look, I told you guys about Muslims’ and now of course there is going to be a backlash throughout the Islamic community. How do you think Muslims should brace themselves for such a thing?
Barrett: Yes unfortunately we need to work harder to publicize the truth about these shootings which are carried out – these attacks, bombings, shootings, the 9/11 – all of these have been perpetrated by the enemies of Islam and the enemies of Muslims and they have been falsely blamed on Muslims and yet most American Muslims are afraid to speak up.
Polls show that more than two thirds of American Muslims and close to three quarters or more of Muslims worldwide know that September 11th was an inside job designed to smear Islam and launch a permanent war on Islam on behalf of Israeli expansionism. That is what this is all about and yet American Muslims are for the most part cowardly and silent, unwilling to speak up and tell the truth and try to put a stop to this madness. Everyone, not just Muslims, but everyone who knows the truth about this, and poll showed that about one third of Americans know the truth about the false flag so-called war on terror being a complete hoax, need to speak up and lose their fear and get out in public.
We should be seeing demonstrations of hundreds of thousands or millions of people because there are a hundred million people here in the United States who know that 9/11 was an inside job. Where are they? Why are they hiding behind their computers? We are in a state of emergency now, we are very close to a situation where the United States is going to descend into a Nazi Germany-style scenario and the Muslims who are here are going to be in concentration camps and they are going to have ask themselves as they sit there behind the barbed wire, why didn’t we speak up? Why didn’t we tell the truth?
These facts about 9/11 have long since been established by hundreds and thousands of experts, architects, engineers, scientists, researchers have proven that it was an inside job, why were we silent? Are we going to go toward deaths behind barbed wire because we were too cowardly to get active and help spread the truth about this and put an end to this madness?
A rough transcription of the interview appears below.
Press TV: How dangerous is this mixture of a prevalence of guns in a country and disenfranchised young men who want to jump on this terror bandwagon?
Barrett: Well that is one question but I think the real question we need to be asking is the question that Robert David Steele, a former CIA clandestine service officer, is asking. I have just been in communication with him and published an article at Veterans Today about this incident and the first question is, is this yet another false flag event?There is absolutely no reason why we should believe that one security guard with no paramilitary training would be capable of killing 50 people. This is highly improbable. We just had a week that was an amazing week for everyone who supports Islam and the Palestinians. We spent the week mourning the death of Muhammad Ali, a great Muslim fighter for justice and a defender of the Palestinians. Additionally, this week we just learned from The Washington Post that Obama was planning to push through the United Nations a Security Council resolution that would essentially recognize the state of Palestine and establish the state of Palestine on the pre-1967 boundaries.
This is a very, very dangerous situation for people like Netanyahu and his party, the people who have been behind virtually all of the spectacular so-called Islamic terror attacks blamed on Muslims from September 11th through London, Madrid, Bali and more recently the two Paris attacks of 2015 and San Bernardino. We know all of those events were false flag events arranged by professionals and intelligence agencies and falsely blamed on Muslims. We have no reason to believe the official story of this event. We should assume that this is a false flag event carried out by the supporters of Netanyahu and the neoconservatives who have whipped up the clash of civilizations out of whole cloth through false flag terror events like this in order to pursue their geopolitical agenda.
Press TV: And along that line of reasoning, how do you think that Islamophobia is going to be? Donald Trump has tweeted saying that, ‘Look, I told you guys about Muslims’ and now of course there is going to be a backlash throughout the Islamic community. How do you think Muslims should brace themselves for such a thing?
Barrett: Yes unfortunately we need to work harder to publicize the truth about these shootings which are carried out – these attacks, bombings, shootings, the 9/11 – all of these have been perpetrated by the enemies of Islam and the enemies of Muslims and they have been falsely blamed on Muslims and yet most American Muslims are afraid to speak up.
Polls show that more than two thirds of American Muslims and close to three quarters or more of Muslims worldwide know that September 11th was an inside job designed to smear Islam and launch a permanent war on Islam on behalf of Israeli expansionism. That is what this is all about and yet American Muslims are for the most part cowardly and silent, unwilling to speak up and tell the truth and try to put a stop to this madness. Everyone, not just Muslims, but everyone who knows the truth about this, and poll showed that about one third of Americans know the truth about the false flag so-called war on terror being a complete hoax, need to speak up and lose their fear and get out in public.
We should be seeing demonstrations of hundreds of thousands or millions of people because there are a hundred million people here in the United States who know that 9/11 was an inside job. Where are they? Why are they hiding behind their computers? We are in a state of emergency now, we are very close to a situation where the United States is going to descend into a Nazi Germany-style scenario and the Muslims who are here are going to be in concentration camps and they are going to have ask themselves as they sit there behind the barbed wire, why didn’t we speak up? Why didn’t we tell the truth?
These facts about 9/11 have long since been established by hundreds and thousands of experts, architects, engineers, scientists, researchers have proven that it was an inside job, why were we silent? Are we going to go toward deaths behind barbed wire because we were too cowardly to get active and help spread the truth about this and put an end to this madness?
Orlando shooting conducted by enemies of Islam
Press TV
The Orlando, Florida, nightclub mass shooting that killed dozens of people on Sunday looks like another false flag operation carried out by Blackwater mercenaries, not by Muslims, says Dr. Kevin Barrett, an American academic who has been studying the events of 9/11 since late 2003.
Dr. Barrett, a founding member of the Scientific Panel for the Investigation of 9/11 and founding member of the Muslim-Jewish-Christian Alliance, told Press TV on Monday that the shooting was “obviously conducted by the enemy of Islam, not by Muslims.”
The US Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) is investigating both domestic and international connections to the massacre that left 50 people, including the shooter, dead and 53 others injured on Sunday. The Daesh terrorist group reportedly claimed responsibility for the attack.
The suspect in the shooting, identified by US media as an alleged Daesh sympathizer named Omar Mateen, is a US citizen of Afghan descent from Port St. Lucie, Florida. He took hostages at the club and barricaded himself in the complex but was later killed by specially trained SWAT units.
Hours after the deadly shooting, presumptive Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump called on President Barack Obama to “immediately” resign from office and suggested Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton should suspend her White House bid over the issue.
“If Hillary Clinton, after this attack, still cannot say the two words ‘radical Islam’ she should get out of this race for the Presidency,” Trump said in a statement on Sunday.
“Well, the so-called presidential race … is really Roman bread and circuses, because the United States is not a democracy. It is dumbed down to the point that the American people are at about the intellectual level of maggots, worms, at this point. As Neil Postman wrote in Amusing Ourselves to Death, ‘Television has destroyed the American mind completely. There’s no longer enough critical thought left in the country to have a functioning democracy,’” Dr. Barrett said.“And the latest example of this is Donald Trump telling Obama to resign and Hillary Clinton to pull out of the race, because they won’t condemn Islam for the false flag nightclub shooting in Orlando, Florida, which was obviously conducted by the enemies of Islam, not by Muslims,” he said.
“You don’t know whether to laugh or cry over this kind of thing. One thing is true though, Trump is right: Hillary should pull out of the race. Obama should resign and Trump should go dig a hole and lie down and shoot himself in the head because he is too stupid to live. All of these people are either too stupid or too evil to live,” he stated.
“We’re living in a world of Orwellian deception in which these slaughters and in some cases fake slaughters, because in some cases these are theatrical events, nobody even dies…In this case, I don’t know whether or not 50 people really died in Orlando, but one thing I can promise you – and stake of my life on – is that one former security guard did not kill 50 people. It did not happen. There’s no way that happened,” the analyst noted.
“A not very competent individual – by all reports – actually succeeded in killing 50 people by himself? This is ludicrous. Anyone who believes this again I say is too stupid to live,” Dr. Barrett said.“We do have reports from Orlando that somebody had barred the doors and prevented people from leaving while the shooting was going on. As Robert David Steele, the former CIA clandestine services officer, who himself organized and orchestrated a false flag – he is whistleblower now – he says if they go and measure the bullet trajectories as you’re supposed to do with any kind of shootings, it would be very, very likely that they would find multiple weapons were used,” he said.
“And none of those weapons were recovered, because these were Blackwater type people, mercenaries, used to slaughter people; and then it gets blamed on the patsy as a public relations stunt. That’s what happened in Orlando,” Dr. Barrett observed.
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Tuesday, June 14, 2016
Orlando: Questions and Anomalies Surround ‘Worst Mass Shooting in U.S. History’
By Vivian Lee
Scene from the Orlando “shooting,” one of many showing no evidence to support the story. Image: CNN
The
“worst mass shooting in U.S. history” is reported to have occurred
between 2 am and 5 am on Sunday morning, June 12, at Pulse, a nightclub
in Orlando, Florida. The “act of terror” is said to have produced 49
dead and 53 injured. A 50th death was that of the “shooter,” identified
as Omar Seddique Mateen, who was employed as a security guard since 2007
by the giant multinational security company G4S. The circumstances of
the Orlando “massacre” are suspicious to say the least, with many
details fitting into the existing playbook for staged shootings
occurring across the U.S.
G4S,
the world’s largest security company by revenue, has its US
headquarters in Jupiter, Florida, but operates in “more than 100
countries,” with “more than 50,000 employees in the United States.” G4S
“has the international reach and resources to meet the security needs of
the global age.”[1] The company has expressed its condolences over the
tragic event and is cooperating “fully” with the FBI and other agencies
who are investigating the “unspeakable tragedy.”
Image: G4S.us
According
to Judicial Watch, G4S is involved in a DHS operation to move illegal
immigrants (“other than Mexicans”) north across the Mexican border into
Arizona, releasing them without proper processing.[2] Perhaps this is
the reason that Mateen, reportedly interviewed by the FBI in 2013 and
2014, was able to keep his security clearance and gun permits although
he was supposedly under investigation for possible terrorist ties.[3]
But
who was Mateen, and did he actually perpetrate “the deadliest terrorist
attack on U.S. soil since 9/11”? In light of the many questions and
anomalies associated with the event, it seems doubtful that the Orlando
“shooting” occurred as presented by the media. Glaring problems include
the following:
–
By Sunday evening, the “dead” were still supposedly inside the night
club – just like the kids reportedly left inside the Sandy Hook school.
Did they not take them to the hospital? Where’s the emergency protocol?
(CNN)
–
News reports claimed that by Sunday evening only a few of the dead had
been identified. But doesn’t everyone who frequents a bar carry an ID?
By 8 pm Monday the names were in – read tearfully on the air by Anderson
Cooper (CNN) and listed in full on Wikipedia.[4]
A “victim” being carried away by non-professionals. Image: CNN
–
News footage shows no dead people, or even visibly injured people, no
ambulances rushing to the scene, no colored triage tarps, no EMTs
swarming the site, or anything else that might prove the “massacre”
actually occurred as reported. A few “injured victims” are shown
casually walked or carried away from the club, with one dumped into the
back of a pickup for transport to the hospital. Such scenes were played
over and over on television. As with the Sandy Hook “shooting,” we are
supposed to believe the reports, despite the clear lack of evidence.
(CNN)
–
To make up for this lack, we have a parade of witnesses, sobbing
without tears and giving unconvincing performances, as seen with many
recent false flag events. These include Luis Burbano, who gave
interviews to several media outlets soon after the Orlando “shooting.”
Like Carlos Arredondo of Boston Marathon fame, Burbano became the face
of courage under duress, reportedly removing his shirt to wrap it around
a man’s arm and tying another piece of his clothing to a man’s leg.[5]
In
his CNN interview, he said he put a “syringe” on the man’s arm – but
then corrected this to say it was a tourniquet.[6] Like Arredondo,
Burbano is an actor, with several films to his credit.[7]
Professional head shot of actor Luis Burbano, one of many available. Image: m.imdb.com.
–
Interviews by assorted officials also sound scripted and strange. These
include State Senator Geraldine Thompson, who tells us she is the
senator for the district that includes the Pulse night club “in
Tallahassee” – although Pulse is actually in Orlando. (CNN)
–
Drills were involved, as with many false flag events (more on this
subject is sure to come). Oddly, the June 13 online edition of the Orlando Sentinelhighlighted an article originally published in 2015, regarding a drill to prepare nurses for mass casualties.[8]
–
Almost immediately, fund-raising efforts were underway on behalf of the
“victims,” as is familiar from other staged events. Patty Sheehan,
Orlando City Commissioner, assures us that there are already people out
there raising money. In less than 24 hours, a fundraising page set up
for the “victims” had raised $1.3 million, and surely more will roll
in.[9]
–
Also familiar are the online posts that precede the event, documented
in Yahoo listings for articles about the Orlando “shooting” that are
dated June 11, one day earlier.[10] This was the case for other false
flag events, notably the Sandy Hook “shooting.”
–
As for “the shooter,” Omar Seddique Mateen (alternately Omar Saddiqui
Mateen) was a Florida resident, born in New York, with parents from
Afghanistan, who was reportedly anti-gay (according to his father). His
family is more than suspicious, with his father, Seddique Mateen,
supposedly running for the presidency of Afghanistan, and well
acquainted with U.S. Congressmen and officials in the State
Department.[11]
Omar Mateen’s father, Seddique Mateen, visiting the U.S. Department of State. Image:http://www.dailymail.co.uk.
–
Omar Mateen was supposedly on the FBI’s radar, as already mentioned,
but somehow the feds didn’t connect the dots. This is a common trope
with all U.S. false flag events, beginning with 9/11. We are supposed to
believe that the intelligence behemoth just doesn’t have the
capabilities to recognize a terrorist threat, despite more than $50
billion allocated per year to the 16 intel agencies.[12] As with Boston
Marathon “bomber,” Tamerlan Tsarnaev, Mateen was known to the
authorities, who let him proceed unfettered.
–
Mateen wreaked havoc with “at least two guns,” a Sig Sauer AR-15 style
assault rifle and a Glock handgun. This fits the weapons profile of
other alleged perpetrators of “mass shooting” events, including Syed
Farook and Tashfeen Malik (San Bernardino) and Adam Lanza (Sandy
Hook).[13]
–
Most of these “mass killers” have bought their guns legally, obtaining
licenses and passing background checks. According to the New York Times
article cited above, “at least eight gunmen had criminal histories or
documented mental health problems that did not prevent them from
obtaining their weapons.” Mateen is no exception, fitting the profile
perfectly, exhibiting “mental health problems,” according to his
ex-wife, who supposedly had to be rescued from the marriage by her
parents.[14]
–
Mateen has been judged “self radicalized” and a lone-wolf, home-grown
terrorist – by all news sources. This was the case with other
“terrorist” actors, including the San Bernardino “shooters.” Marco Rubio
went on record to say that homegrown terrorism is the biggest threat
our country faces – his fear is that “we’re gonna see more of this.”
(CNN) And no doubt we will.
Omar Seddique Mateen, who was inordinately fond of taking selfies. Image: http://www.fnewstoday.com.
–
All sources have reported that Mateen called 911 at 20 minutes into the
attack and pledged allegiance to ISIS (over the phone) and also
mentioned the “Boston bombers” as inspiration. (The tape has not been
released.) This is patently ridiculous: did no one in the club think to
jump the “killer” as he took time out to make this call? This kind of
exhibitionism – serving to identify the perpetrator and associate
him/her with the terrorist organization of choice – was seen in the
Paris Charlie Hebdo caper, with Amedy Coulibaly calling BFMTV from the
kosher Hyper Cacher Supermarket to tell them his name and announce his
connection to the Islamic extremist Kouachi brothers .[15]
–
Finally, Mateen was conveniently killed by the police (or was he?),
with only one officer sustaining a hit – but luckily the bullet was
deflected by his Kevlar helmet. This has occurred with virtually all
other false flag rampages, a notable exception being the Boston Marathon
“bombing,” with Dzhokhar Tsarnaev reported captured and in prison –
unless he was actually killed while hiding in the boat.
One
can find many other correspondences between the various staged events,
with the Orlando “shooting” fitting comfortably into the paradigm. In
each case, a saddened President Obama makes a heart-wrenching statement
to the press, in some instances seeming to weep. In his words, Orlando
was “an act of terror and an act of hate.”[16] But love will prevail –
as we are reminded again and again.
Here,
as always, the agenda is multi-purpose: gun control, mental health
supervision, increased surveillance of the populace, bolstering of the
intelligence services, militarization of local law enforcement, further
commitment to the “War on Terror” whether abroad or at home, and, in
this case, the LGBT program – in a strategy devised by the elites and
programmed by the media, with the people used as dupes.
[2] “Orlando Killer Worked for Company Transporting Illegal Immigrants Inside US; Was Interviewed by FBI 3 Times.” ZeroHedge.com, June 12, 2016. http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2016-06-12/orlando-shooter- worked-security-company-which-tranports-illegal-immigrants-deep-insi
[3] “Omar Mateen: From Early Promise to F.B.I. Surveillance.” New York Times, June 13, 2016. http://www.nytimes.com/2016/06/13/us/omar-mateen-early-signs-of-promise-then-abuse-and- suspected-terrorist-ties.html
[4] “Orlando Nightclub Shooting.”https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2016_Orlando_nightclub_shooting.html
[5] “Last Call at Pulse Nightclub, and Then Shots Rang Out.” New York Times, June 13, 2016. http://www.nytimes.com/2016/06/13/us/last-call-at-orlando-club-and-then-the-shots-rang- out.html
[6] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a18vJYN5Ho0
[7] “Luis Burbano Is an Actor.” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GMlpKHfnJyg
[7] “Luis Burbano Is an Actor.” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GMlpKHfnJyg
[8]
“Drill Prepares Emergency Nurses for Mass Casualties.” Orlando
Sentinel, June 13, 2016 (originally published October 2, 2015).https://memoryholeblog.com/2016/06/13/orlando-mass- casualty-drill/
[9] “These Orlando Shooting Heroes Prove People Are Fundamentally Good.” Washington Post, June 13, 2016.https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/inspired-life/wp/2016/06/13/these-are-the-heroes-emerging-from-the-orlando-shooting/
[10] “Orlando Pulse Night Club Shooting Articles Published Day Before.”https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kDXWA43VP84
[11]
“Orlando Shooter’s Father Is Running for President of Afghanistan, Has
Backed the Taliban, Hosts Talk Show in California, and Visits the
Corridors of Power in DC.” Daily Mail, June 13, 2016.http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3637968/Father-America-s-deadly-mass-shooter-wanted-Afghan-president-job-TV-showed-support-Taliban.html
[13] “How They Got Their Guns.” New York Times, June 12, 2016.http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2015/10/03/us/how-mass-shooters-got-their-guns.html?_r=0
[14] “Sitora Yusufiy, Ex-Wife of Orlando Suspect, Describes Abusive Marriage.”New York Times, June 13, 2016. http://www.nytimes.com/2016/06/14/us/sitora-yusufiy-omar-mateen- orlando-shooting.html
[15] “French Police Say Suspect in Attack Evolved from Petty Criminal to Terrorist.” New York Times, January 10, 2015.http://www.nytimes.com/2015/01/11/world/europe/neighbors-say- suspect-in-french-attacks-and-his-companion-lived-quiet-lives.html
[16] Melanie Garuney, “President Obama on the Tragic Shooting in Orlando,” The White House, June 12, 2016.https://www.whitehouse.gov/blog/2016/06/12/president-obama-tragic-shooting-orlando
Vivian Lee is the nom de plume of a tenured professor at an east coast university.
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Posted by Jim Fetzer at 1:27 PM
Orlando? Was it as fake as the other shootings?
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SHEIKH HAMZA YUSUF AND OTHER MUSLIMS SELLING OUT TO THE DEVIL, NOW! WHAT A SHAME!
Published on 14 Jun 2016
So
far I only see fakery. The story makes no sense, Nothing on the
national news ever makes sense so far the entire thing as opposed to
part of it looks fake.
Before
Sunday morning, few Americans had heard of Orlando gunman Omar Mateen’s
British headquartered employer, G4S, the world’s largest global
security firm, which employs more than 610,000 people in 110 countries. In
the United States alone, G4S security guards stand watch over airports,
water and power plants, nuclear facilities, immigration transportation
and even, as in the case of Mateen, gated communities.
Since 2008, G4S Secure Solutions — the company’s American subsidiary — has received nearly $830 million worth of federal, state and local government contracts, including for the Department of Homeland Security, according to the SmartProcure database. Its private clients include Google (GOOGL.O) and J.P. Morgan Chase.
News that the gunman who killed 49 people in a packed gay nightclub in Orlando was a G4S employee wiped almost £200 million ($282.80 million) off the company on Monday, but some financial analysts said they expect little long-term damage to the company. Indeed, the attack could increase growth in the private security industry, they said.
“Individual major security incidents have rarely had any long-term effect on the specific companies that may be connected,” said Jeff Kessler an analyst for Imperial Capital. “They do serve as a strong backdrop for the industry revenue growth - as the world is perceived as ‘less safe.’”
G4S made headlines in 2012 when it announced it could not provide the promised 10,400 security guards only two weeks before the London Olympics. The announcement wiped $1 billion off its market value and the British government had to draft in thousands of troops as reinforcements.
CO-WORKER COMPLAINTS
Daniel Gilroy, a former co-worker of Mateen at G4S, said he repeatedly complained to his supervisor about Mateen’s behavior, which included Mateen bombarding Gilroy with as many as 30 text messages a day, some of which made death threats.
"Everything he said was toxic," Gilroy told the Florida Today, "and the company wouldn't do anything. This guy was unhinged and unstable. He talked of killing people."
The company said in a statement that it had “no record of any complaint by Mr. Gilroy about Mr. Mateen,” and that Gilroy said in June 2015 after leaving the company that his co-workers were “good men and women.”
Separately, the company said it had conducted two screenings of Mateen, once when he was hired in 2007 and again in 2013. Neither brought up anything of concern.
As part of his screening for G4S, Mateen underwent a psychometric test, an ID verification test, and a criminal record check, among other measures.
The company re-screens 15 percent of its employees in North America each year, and when Mateen moved to a new role in 2013, the company updated his criminal records check, a spokesman said.
In 2013, G4S learned that Mateen had been questioned by the FBI, but the company was unaware of a subsequent FBI interview of Mateen in 2014, the company said. The company declined to comment on how it found out about the FBI investigation in 2013.
LIMITED LIABILITY
Legal experts who have represented security firms say establishing liability against employers can be difficult. Proving a company should have known an employee posed a foreseeable risk is hard to do unless specific threats have been made.
Family members of victims killed in a 2013 shooting rampage at the Washington Naval Yard sued HP Enterprise Services, part of Hewlett-Packard Co., and its subcontractor the Florida firm The Experts, which had hired the gunman as a technology contractor at the yard.
“Something like this happens and it's natural for human beings to want someone to be held accountable, but the law has very stringent requirements for that type of accountability ... especially in situations like this where you have someone doing something that is extraordinarily aberrant,” said Jeffrey McFadden, a Washington D.C.-based attorney representing The Experts in the Naval Yard case.
The companies filed motions to dismiss that case in U.S. District Court in Washington D.C., which are still pending.
If a company fires an employee based on non-specific complaints from co-workers, the employee could also sue, claiming the dismissal was discriminatory, said Clifford Ingber, an attorney in Connecticut who has represented security guard companies since the 1980s.
(Story corrects paragraph 2 to transportation instead of detention centers, paragraph 7 to his supervisor instead of supervisors.)
(Additional reporting by Mike Stone; Editing by David Rohde and Ross Colvin)
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Orlando shooter was employee of global security firm G4S
By Yeganeh Torbati and Mica Rosenberg
An undated photo from a social media
account of Omar Mateen, who Orlando Police have identified as the
suspect. Omar Mateen via Myspace/Handout via
Reuters
Since 2008, G4S Secure Solutions — the company’s American subsidiary — has received nearly $830 million worth of federal, state and local government contracts, including for the Department of Homeland Security, according to the SmartProcure database. Its private clients include Google (GOOGL.O) and J.P. Morgan Chase.
News that the gunman who killed 49 people in a packed gay nightclub in Orlando was a G4S employee wiped almost £200 million ($282.80 million) off the company on Monday, but some financial analysts said they expect little long-term damage to the company. Indeed, the attack could increase growth in the private security industry, they said.
“Individual major security incidents have rarely had any long-term effect on the specific companies that may be connected,” said Jeff Kessler an analyst for Imperial Capital. “They do serve as a strong backdrop for the industry revenue growth - as the world is perceived as ‘less safe.’”
G4S made headlines in 2012 when it announced it could not provide the promised 10,400 security guards only two weeks before the London Olympics. The announcement wiped $1 billion off its market value and the British government had to draft in thousands of troops as reinforcements.
CO-WORKER COMPLAINTS
Daniel Gilroy, a former co-worker of Mateen at G4S, said he repeatedly complained to his supervisor about Mateen’s behavior, which included Mateen bombarding Gilroy with as many as 30 text messages a day, some of which made death threats.
"Everything he said was toxic," Gilroy told the Florida Today, "and the company wouldn't do anything. This guy was unhinged and unstable. He talked of killing people."
The company said in a statement that it had “no record of any complaint by Mr. Gilroy about Mr. Mateen,” and that Gilroy said in June 2015 after leaving the company that his co-workers were “good men and women.”
Separately, the company said it had conducted two screenings of Mateen, once when he was hired in 2007 and again in 2013. Neither brought up anything of concern.
As part of his screening for G4S, Mateen underwent a psychometric test, an ID verification test, and a criminal record check, among other measures.
The company re-screens 15 percent of its employees in North America each year, and when Mateen moved to a new role in 2013, the company updated his criminal records check, a spokesman said.
In 2013, G4S learned that Mateen had been questioned by the FBI, but the company was unaware of a subsequent FBI interview of Mateen in 2014, the company said. The company declined to comment on how it found out about the FBI investigation in 2013.
LIMITED LIABILITY
Legal experts who have represented security firms say establishing liability against employers can be difficult. Proving a company should have known an employee posed a foreseeable risk is hard to do unless specific threats have been made.
Family members of victims killed in a 2013 shooting rampage at the Washington Naval Yard sued HP Enterprise Services, part of Hewlett-Packard Co., and its subcontractor the Florida firm The Experts, which had hired the gunman as a technology contractor at the yard.
“Something like this happens and it's natural for human beings to want someone to be held accountable, but the law has very stringent requirements for that type of accountability ... especially in situations like this where you have someone doing something that is extraordinarily aberrant,” said Jeffrey McFadden, a Washington D.C.-based attorney representing The Experts in the Naval Yard case.
The companies filed motions to dismiss that case in U.S. District Court in Washington D.C., which are still pending.
If a company fires an employee based on non-specific complaints from co-workers, the employee could also sue, claiming the dismissal was discriminatory, said Clifford Ingber, an attorney in Connecticut who has represented security guard companies since the 1980s.
(Story corrects paragraph 2 to transportation instead of detention centers, paragraph 7 to his supervisor instead of supervisors.)
(Additional reporting by Mike Stone; Editing by David Rohde and Ross Colvin)
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On World Blood Donor Day, the government says it's going to
review a law which means that gay men can't donate for 12 months after
having sex.
Six thousand blood donations are needed across England and Wales every day.
But in the past 10 years, there has been a 40% decrease in the number of new donors giving blood.
Now the Department of Health has told Newsbeat that it is going to review the law stopping gay men from donating within its referral period.
"Donor deferral for men who have sex with men was changed from lifetime to 12 months in 2011 but five years later it is time to look again at the question," a spokesman said.
"Our expert advisory committee is currently undertaking a review on whether the rules should change and we will base any decisions on their expert advice."
Northern Ireland only changed its indefinite ban to a 12-month window earlier this month.
A ban on gay men donating blood was brought in across the UK during the Aids/HIV crisis in the 1980s, but was lifted in England, Scotland and Wales in November 2011.
But a 12-month ban was kept for men who are sexually active.
The same law applies in the US as well.
It meant that many homosexual men couldn't donate blood after 49 people were murdered at a gay club in Orlando and 53 others were wounded. (???????)
(Click the above link to continue reading)
BBC
Government to review 12-month deferral period for gay men donating blood
By Padraig Prendergast
Newsbeat reporter
Six thousand blood donations are needed across England and Wales every day.
But in the past 10 years, there has been a 40% decrease in the number of new donors giving blood.
Now the Department of Health has told Newsbeat that it is going to review the law stopping gay men from donating within its referral period.
"Donor deferral for men who have sex with men was changed from lifetime to 12 months in 2011 but five years later it is time to look again at the question," a spokesman said.
"Our expert advisory committee is currently undertaking a review on whether the rules should change and we will base any decisions on their expert advice."
Northern Ireland only changed its indefinite ban to a 12-month window earlier this month.
A ban on gay men donating blood was brought in across the UK during the Aids/HIV crisis in the 1980s, but was lifted in England, Scotland and Wales in November 2011.
But a 12-month ban was kept for men who are sexually active.
The same law applies in the US as well.
It meant that many homosexual men couldn't donate blood after 49 people were murdered at a gay club in Orlando and 53 others were wounded. (???????)
(Click the above link to continue reading)
The Treachery of Sheikh Hamza Yusuf Mark Hanson and of other Muslims folllowing him! I never thought this would ever happen! Not with such a great scholar and human like Sheikh Hamza!
A Joint Muslim Statement On the Carnage in Orlando (WHAT CARNAGE???)
June 13, 2016
On behalf of the American Muslim community (WHAT COMMUNITY?), we, the undersigned, want to extend our deepest condolences to the families and friends of the victims (DO YOU HAVE EVIDENCE OF THE DEATHS?) of the barbaric assault that occurred early yesterday morning at Pulse, an LGBTQ (??? THAT SATANIC PLACE OF DEPRAVITY?) nightclub in Orlando, Florida. We unequivocally say that such an act of hate-fueled violence has no place in any faith, including Islam. (WHY DO YOU IMPLICATE ISLAM IN THIS RACIST FALSE FLAG?) As people of faith (Thank God I am not onew of them!) , we believe that all human beings have the right to safety and security (Are Muslims acting like Policemen and Policewomen, now?) and th at each and every human life is inviolable.We know that, given the tenor of the times, some will associate this tragedy with the religion of the perpetrator. (What religion? What perpetrator?) While we may never learn conclusively what motivated this misguided individual, many news sources ((Muslims believe in the RACIST news sources, now?) claim that he was motivated by his faith, which would be a reprehensible distortion of Islam adding the religion to the long list of innocent victims in this callous crime. Any such acts of violence violate every one of our Prophet’s teachings. For Muslims, that this carnage occurred in the blessed month of Ramadan—a month of charity, introspection, and self-purification—only adds to the foulness of this enormity. (TOTALLY IRRELEVANT HERE!)
Since September 11, 2001, many Muslims have been victims of collective guilt; yet, numerous Americans of good conscience have stood by their fellow citizens, despite differences in faith or lifestyle, including many members of the targeted community. Difference is no justification for violence. While most American Muslims adhere to a strict Abrahamic morality, the Quran is clear that its injunctions apply only to Muslims who choose to follow them: “There is absolutely no compulsion in religion.” In America, individuals are at liberty to pursue happiness as each sees fit; it is our cherished political right. Those of us who live in this country, irrespective of our beliefs, must respect the equality of all Americans under the laws of the land.
We feel compelled to state that it is an egregious offense against the culture and laws of America—as well as Islam’s—to place collective guilt on an entire community for the sins of individuals. “No soul bears the sins of another,” says the Quran.
Three days ago, Americans honored the memory of one of the greatest and most beloved men in American history: Muhammad Ali, who was a devout Muslim. The Islam Muhammad Ali followed is one of love, tolerance, and respect for all. American Muslims everywhere felt that he ended, once and for all, the vacuous claim that one cannot be both Muslim and American.
We, as American Muslims, follow the openhearted and inclusive Islam of Muhammad Ali and completely reject the hatred, provincialism, and intolerance of those who trample upon the rights of others, besmirching and defiling the name of Islam. The criminal who took the lives of dozens of patrons of the Orlando nightclub and injured many others was an aggressor, plain and simple. The Quran says, “Do not be brutal or commit aggression, for surely God does not love brutal aggressors.”
There are extremists in America and abroad who view the world through a Manichean lens: American Manicheans want Americans to see themselves as entirely “good” and all Muslims as entirely “evil.” Muslim Manicheans want Muslims to see themselves as entirely “good” and all Americans as entirely “evil.” This is a catastrophic recipe for unrelenting violence, and it must be rejected: We will not allow the extremists to define us, mold us in their benighted image, or sow the seeds of discord among us. We are one people, so let us all in good conscience and human solidarity reject this extremist narrative and assert our shared humanity and mutual respect for the sanctity of all human life. (IRRELEVANT AND TRASHY!
Signed, (BY FOOLS, IGNORAMUSES, AND COWARDS!)
Shaykh Abdallah Bin Bayyah - President, Forum for Promoting Peace
Hamza Yusuf - President, Zaytuna College
Sherman A. Jackson - King Faisal Chair of Islamic Thought and Culture, USC
Siraj Wahhaj - President, Muslim Alliance in North America (MANA)
Umar F. Abd-Allah - Resident Scholar, Chicago, IL
Mustafa Ceric - Grand Mufti Emeritus
Zaid Shakir - Co-Founder, Zaytuna College
Yasir Qadhi - Dean, AlMaghrib Institute | Assistant Professor, Rhodes College
Yusuf Islam - Philanthropist / Singer & Composer
Mohamed Magid - Executive Religious Director, All Dulles Area Muslim Society(ADAMS)
Abdullah bin Hamid Ali - Senior Faculty , Zaytuna College
Abdullah Hakim Quick - Resident Scholar, Islamic Institute of Toronto
Aisha al-Adawiya - Founder, Women in Islam Inc.
Muhammad Al-Ninowy - Founder & President, Al Madinah Institute
Tamara Gray - Founder, Rabata Inc
Naeem Baig - President, ICNA
Waleed Basyouni - VP, AlMaghrib Institute
Yaser Birjas - Imam, Valley Ranch Islamic Center
Omar Suleiman - Resident Scholar, Valley Ranch Islamic Center
Oussama Jamal - Secretary General, US Council of Muslim Organizations
Azhar Azeez - President, ISNA
Afifi al-Akiti - KFAS Fellow in Islamic Studies, Oxford University
Altaf Hussain - Vice President (US), ISNA / Associate Professor, Howard University
Mazen Mokhtar - Executive Director, The Muslim American Society (MAS)
Maha Elgenaidi - Executive Director, ING
Khalid Latif - Executive Director, The Islamic Center at New York University
Yasir Fahmy - Senior Imam, Islamic Society of Boston Cultural Center
Imam Zia - Executive Director, MakeSpace
Nihad Awad - National Executive Director , The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR)
Noman Hussain - Imam & Resident Scholar, Islamic Society of Milwaukee
Afroz Ali - Founder & Director, Al-Ghazali Centre, Australia
Islamic Society of North America (ISNA)
Emerge USA
Yassir Fazaga - Religious Director, Orange County Islamic Foundation
Faisal Hamid Abdur-Razak - President, Islamic Forum of Canada
Tahir Anwar - Faculty, Zaytuna College
Aisha Subhani - Board Member, Zaytuna College
Fouzan Khan - Director, Reviving the Islamic Spirit (RIS)
Munir El Kassem - President & Founder, Islamic Institute for Interfaith Dialogue
Dalia Mogahed - Co-Author, "Who Speaks for Islam? what a Billion Muslims really think"
Hamid Slimi - Chairman & Imam, Canadian Centre For Deen Studies / Sayeda Khadija Centre
Shahed Amanullah - Co-Founder, Affinis Lab
Muslema Purmul - Chaplain, Institute of Knowledge (IOK), California
Hazem Bata - Secretary General, ISNA
Dilshad D. Ali - Chair, Board of Directors, Enabled Muslims
Abdul Malik Mujahid - President, Sound Vision
Albert Press Jr. - President, American Muslim Health Professionals (AMHP)
Yahya Rhodus - Founding Director, Al-Maqasid
Afghan American Community Association
Zeshan Zafar - Executive Director, Forum for Promoting Peace | UAE
Aftab Malik - Senior Advisor, Forum for Promoting Peace | UK
Mikaeel Ahmed Smith - Islamic Soicety of Baltimore
Abdur Rahman Bashir - Imam, Jefferson Muslim Association, Louisiana
Qasim Khan - Imam, Masjid At-Tawhid
Syedur Rahman Chowdhury - National President , MUNA
Noman Hussain - Imam & Resident Scholar, Islamic Society of Milwaukee
Kenan Basha - Board Chair, MSA National
Fatima Salman - Central Zone Representative, ISNA
Abdelmajid Jondy - President, Flint Islamic Center
Paul Galloway - Executive Director , The American Muslim Advisory Council (AMAC)
Sarah Cochran - President & Co-Founder, Oneblue.org
Ashfaq Taufique - President , Birmingham (AL) Islamic Society
Khaula Hadeed - Executive Director, CAIR AL
Lateef ur Rahman - Imam , Islamic Society Of Tracy
Ilyas Anwar - Imam , South Valley Islamic Community
Khaula Hadeed - Executive Director, CAIR AL
Syed Moktadir - President, All Dulles Area Muslim Society (ADAMS Center)
Hussain Kamani - Mufti, Instructor, Qalam Institute | Resident Scholar, Islamic Association of Carrollton
Edward Ahmed Mitchell - Attorney & Executive Director, CAIR-Georgia
Aamir Nazir - Imam, Muslim Community of Folsom (CA)
Hamzah wald Maqbūl - Instructor, Rayyān Institute
Muzammil Ahmed - Chairperson, Michigan Muslim Community Council (MMCC)
Tarek El-Messidi - Founding Director, CelebrateMercy
Mohamed Almasmari - Executive Director - Michigan Muslim Community Council (MMCC)
Hatem Bazian - Co-Founder, Zaytuna College
Feraidoon Mojadedi - Director, Sacred Caravan
Asad Tarsin - Board Member, Deen Intensive Foundation
Rami nashashibi - Executive Director, IMAN | Visiting Professor, Chicago Theological Seminary (CTS)
Coalition of South Florida Muslim Organizations (COSMOS)
Amjad Quadri - Education, Muslim Community Center Chicago, IL
Abdullah T. Antepli - Imam, Duke University
Khalil Abdur-Rashid
Muhammed Al Ahari - Editor in Chief, Magribine Press
Niaz Hannan - Religious Director, Islamic Center of South Jersey, Muslim Chaplain, Drexel University
Irfan Shuttari - Board Member, Michigan Muslim Community Council
Yama Zachariah Azar - Representative, Southern California Afghan Community
Chris Blauvelt - Founder & CEO, Launchgood.com
Aamir Nazir - Imam, Muslim Community of Folsom, CA
Lateef ur Rahman - Imam, Islamic Society of Tracy, CA
Vaseem Faria Ansari - Director, Houston Islamic Speakers Bureau
Karim khayati - Co-Founder , American Muslim Institute
Azra Hussain - President, Islamic Speakers Bureau of Arizona
Zehra Wamiq - Founder/Director, Delaware Valley Speakers Bureau
Nuha Alfahham - Co-director , ILEARN, ING affiliate
Khalil Meek - National Executive Director , Muslim Legal Fund of America
Shabana Shakir Ahmed - Tours & Talks Chair, Islamic Center of Greater Cincinnati
Aida Mansoor - President, Muslim Coalition of Connecticut
Reza Mansoor - President, Islamic Association of Greater Hartford
M. Rajaullah Quraishi - Past President, MCC Chicago
Shakila T Ahmad - Board President, Islamic Center of Greater Cincinnati
Ismaeel Chartier - Imam, Islamic Association of Cincinnati
Tehseen Lazzouni - Director, Islamic Speakers Bureau of San Diego
Adnaan A Waseem - Teacher, Muslim Society Institution
Ahsen Waseem - Imam/instructor , Furqaan Foundation/Academy
Minhajuddin Ahmed - Imam and Resident Scholar, DarusSalam Foundation
Azfar Uddin - Imam, Islamic Foundation North
Yasir Nadeem - Director , Darul Uloom Online
Saad H. Baig - Imam , Islamic Center of Quad Cities
Bilal Ali Ansari - Lecturer, Darul Qasim
Afzal sheikh - Khateeb, The Islamic center Of deer park ny
Abdussamad Awal - Mufti, Darul Quran Wassunah
Yasir Khan - President , Al-Misbaah
Ahmad Jafar - Mufti, Darul Arqum Institute
Abdurrahman Ahmad - Imam, ICNE
Ossama Bahloul - Resident Scholar of the Islamic Center of Nashville
Rashad Sharif - Imam, President, Masjid Al-Mu'minun, Memphis
Mohammed Abdullah Al Mamun - Baitul Mukarram Center, Danbury Connecticut
Ibrahim H Ahmad - Imam, Masjid Noor Inc
Yasser Arafat - President/CEO, Peace Ambassadors USA
Abdul-latif Sackor - Imam/President , Islamic Center of Rhode Island
Saleh M. Sbenaty - Chair, Outreach Committee, Islamic Center of Murfreesboro
Usman Akhtar - Imam, Islamic Society of Western Connecticut | Danbury Masjid
Abdul Aziz Bhuiyan - Chairman , Hillside Islamic Center
Mohammed Wasim Khan - Mufti, Madrasah Islamiah/ ISRA Foundation
Zaid Khan - Instructor , DUA Institute
Asif Uddin - Instructor, Darul Qasim
Abdul Hakim Hamid - Imam , Muslim Community of Florida
Mohibullah N. Durrani - Professor, Muslim Astronomers
Khalid Yousuf - MD, Orthopedic surgeon
Hasanuddin Khaja - Ex- executive member , Islamic center of Harrison
Zyshan Yaseen Palwala - Instructor/Imam, Masjid Uthman
Muslihuddin Kawthar - President, Rihlatul ILM Foundation
Asim Gaffar - Teacher, College Preparatory School of America
Ayman sader - Member of Board of Trustee , Islamic Center of Nashville
Abdelrhman Hussein - Assistant, Peace Ambassadors USA
Kifah Mustapha - Imam, The Prayer Center of Orland Park
Ikhlas Ansari - Hafiz, MCC Chicago
Azeemuddin Jawad Mohammed - Lead Qur'an Instructor, MAS- MAS Qur'an Institute -(MQI)
Abdelhafid Djemil - President, Majlis Ashura (Islamic Leadership Council) of New York
Muhammad A Hussain - President, Long Island Muslim Society
Saiful Nabi - Imam, Muslim Federation of J.C.N.J
Hasib Noor - Founder, The Legacy Foundation
Mubeen Kamani - Sheikh, MCC Academy
Mohammed Amjed Ali - Imam , Rahmat e Alam foundation
Numaan Nasir Cheema - Imam/Molana, 4EveryMuslim.com
Mohammed Samir Wahid - Mufti/founder, Islamic institute of Atlanta
Ehzaz Ajmeri - Scholar & Instructor , DarusSalam Foundation
Rahat Husain - Director, Universal Muslim Association of America
Vaseem Ansari - Director, ING Houston Islamic Speakers Bureau
Khalid Mirza - Co-Founder , The Coalition of South Florida Muslim Organizations (COSMOS)
Muhammad Chowdhury - Instructor , Darul Hidayah
Eman Hassaballa Aly - Co-Founder, Collaboryst & RRT
Khamis Abu-Hasaballah - President, Farmington Valley American Muslim Center
Sajid Ali - Imam, Islamic Association of Forth Worth
Nayef Abbas - Imam/Juris Consult, Islamic Association of Michigan
Mohammed A Haque - Ex President, Islamic society of Nortgwest suburbs of Chicago
Talib Shareef - President , The Nation's Mosque Masjid Muhammad
Ikram Ul Haq - Imam, Fatwa Center of America
Naeem Khalid - President , Islamic Center of Connecticut, Inc (Madina Masjid)
Ayesha Khan - ICNF
Mohammed Kaiseruddin - Chairman, Council of Islamic Organizations of Greater Chicago
A Rahman - Board member, Islamic Center of Greater Cincinnati
Naazish Yarkhan - Founder, Writers Studio
Karen Danielson - Outreach Director, MAS Chicago
Jawad Khan - President, Chicago Chapter, Indian American Muslim Council
Talat M. Othman - Co- Founder, Council of Islamic Organizations of Greater Chicago
Majeed Sharif - President, United Muslim mosque
Raef Mardeni - Member, Self
Majeed Sharif - President, United Muslim mosque
Zaher Sahloul - Senior Advisor and past president , Syrian American Medical Society
Karim Mozawalla - Vice President/Trustee, Muslim Community of Nassau County/Masjid Hamza
Baher S Foad - Board member, Islamic center of greater Cincinnati
MOHAMMED MISBAHUDDIN - Ex President , Muslim Society
Gulame Asif - Board Member, Islamic Center of Greater Cincinnati
Kameelah Rashad - Founder & President, Muslim Wellness Foundation
Iltefat Hamzavi - Board member , Michigan Muslim Community Council
Omer Bajwa - Muslim Chaplain, Yale University
Sameer Afsar - Secretary, Downtown Islamic Center Chicago
Seham Abdala - Director, NJ Islamic Networks Group
Ashraf Traboulsi - Board Vice Chair, Islamic Center of Greater Cincinnati
Inayat Malik - Past President and Board Chair, Islamic Center of Greater Cincinnati
Heba Macksoud - Board of Trustees Member, Islamic Society of Central Jersey
Usama Canon - Founding Director, Ta'leef Collective
Samia Hussein - Vice President/President-Elect, Muslim Coalition of Connecticut
Mazen Asbahi - Partner, Law Firm of Roetzel & Andress, LPA
Bassam Issa - President, Islamic Society of Greater Chattanooga
Lena F. Masri Esq. - Legal Director, Council on American-Islamic Relations, Michigan
Feryal Salem - Professor , Hartford Seminary
Mohammad Fazili - Predident, Islamic Center of Williamson County
Zaynab Salman - Board Member, Deen Intensive Foundation
Mohammad Motiur Rahman - Ustaaz, Baitul Hamd (Ideal Mother Organization)
Irfan Ahmad Khan - Director, Association for Qur'anic Understanding
Nemat Moussavian - Board member, Islamic Center of Greater Cincinnati
Ayesha Sultana Ali - Member Board of Directirs, Muslim Community Center
Muhammad Ilyas - Sh, Darul Quran was Sunnah
Walead Mosaad - Resident Scholar, Sakina Collective
Dawud Walid - Executive Director , CAIR-MI
Nawzad Hawrami - Secretary, Board of Trustees, Salahadeen Center of Nashville
Osama Abuirshaid - National Policy Director , American Muslims for Palestine
Nemat Moussavian - Board member , Islamic Center of Greater Cincinnati
Saad Khan - Instructor, Darus Suffah
Khalid Nasr - Imam, Islamic center of new England, Quincy
Syed Ali - Director, Islamic Speakers Bureau-Dallas/Fort Worth
Eid Farha - President, Islamic Center of Ann Arbor
Linda Sarsour - Co-founder/Director , MPower Change
Rizwan Ali - Shaykh, Islamic Center of Naperville
Fahd Syed - Administrative, United Muslim Masjid
Eamaan Rabbat - Board member and Director of Ribaat Academic Institute, Rabata
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Ibrahim Sultan-Ali - President, Board of governors of Pleasant View School
Ibad Wali - Instructor, Darul Uloom New York
Mohamed Salem - Muslim US citizen, Muslim
Saadia Mian - Board Member , Rabata
Noor Raheemullah Hasan - Executive Director , Muslim Women's Alliance
Nadiah Mohajir - Co-Founder & Executive Director, HEART Women & Girls
Azra Baig - Vice President, American Muslim Council PAC
Alicia Strong - President , Wesleyan Muslim Student Association
Akber Khan - Quran Instructor, Cordoba House
Majed Sabke - Imam, MIA
Najah Bazzy - CEO, Diversity Specialists
Nadeem Siddiqi - Chairman, Muslim American Society
Humaira Salehi - Mr., Farmington valley American Muslim Center
Fahim Qazi - Linguist, Author, Founder Quranic Linguistics Institute USA, Quranic Linguistics Institute
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Hafiz Muhammad Mustafa - Imam, Jamia Masjid Boonton
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JAVED ALI - Founder ILLUME / Urban Halal
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California Islamic University
Margari Hill - Programming Director Muslim Anti-Racism Collaborative (MuslimARC)
Johari Abdul-Malik - Dar al-Hijrah Islamic Center, Falls Church, Virginia
Taneem Aziz - President, Muslim Community of Northeast Tennessee
Asif Umar - Imam/Director of Religious Affairs, Islamic Foundation of
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Yama Niazi - Imam, Islamic Society of Santa Barbara
Islamic Center of Boise
Adnan Durrani - CEO American Halal Co, Inc
Eram Uddin - Board Member, Beacon Foundation
Hamdullah Sayedi - Imam, Sacramento Afghan Community and Religious Center
Debbie Almontaser - Board President, Muslim Community Network NY
Faraz Rabbani - Executive Director, SeekersHub Global
Omar Mohammedi - Adjunct Professor, Fordham Law School
Mehnaz M. Afridi - Assistant Professor of Religious Studies, Manhattan College
Azhar Subedar - Spiritual Director, Purposeful Life
Fasahat Hamzavi - President, Islamic Association of Greater Detroit
OMER RANGOONWALA - Director, Islamic Education Center (IEC)
Fahad Tasleem - Director, Islamic education & research academy US (iERA US)
Hamza Yusuf - President, Zaytuna College
Sherman A. Jackson - King Faisal Chair of Islamic Thought and Culture, USC
Siraj Wahhaj - President, Muslim Alliance in North America (MANA)
Umar F. Abd-Allah - Resident Scholar, Chicago, IL
Mustafa Ceric - Grand Mufti Emeritus
Zaid Shakir - Co-Founder, Zaytuna College
Yasir Qadhi - Dean, AlMaghrib Institute | Assistant Professor, Rhodes College
Yusuf Islam - Philanthropist / Singer & Composer
Mohamed Magid - Executive Religious Director, All Dulles Area Muslim Society(ADAMS)
Abdullah bin Hamid Ali - Senior Faculty , Zaytuna College
Abdullah Hakim Quick - Resident Scholar, Islamic Institute of Toronto
Aisha al-Adawiya - Founder, Women in Islam Inc.
Muhammad Al-Ninowy - Founder & President, Al Madinah Institute
Tamara Gray - Founder, Rabata Inc
Naeem Baig - President, ICNA
Waleed Basyouni - VP, AlMaghrib Institute
Yaser Birjas - Imam, Valley Ranch Islamic Center
Omar Suleiman - Resident Scholar, Valley Ranch Islamic Center
Oussama Jamal - Secretary General, US Council of Muslim Organizations
Azhar Azeez - President, ISNA
Afifi al-Akiti - KFAS Fellow in Islamic Studies, Oxford University
Altaf Hussain - Vice President (US), ISNA / Associate Professor, Howard University
Mazen Mokhtar - Executive Director, The Muslim American Society (MAS)
Maha Elgenaidi - Executive Director, ING
Khalid Latif - Executive Director, The Islamic Center at New York University
Yasir Fahmy - Senior Imam, Islamic Society of Boston Cultural Center
Imam Zia - Executive Director, MakeSpace
Nihad Awad - National Executive Director , The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR)
Noman Hussain - Imam & Resident Scholar, Islamic Society of Milwaukee
Afroz Ali - Founder & Director, Al-Ghazali Centre, Australia
Islamic Society of North America (ISNA)
Emerge USA
Yassir Fazaga - Religious Director, Orange County Islamic Foundation
Faisal Hamid Abdur-Razak - President, Islamic Forum of Canada
Tahir Anwar - Faculty, Zaytuna College
Aisha Subhani - Board Member, Zaytuna College
Fouzan Khan - Director, Reviving the Islamic Spirit (RIS)
Munir El Kassem - President & Founder, Islamic Institute for Interfaith Dialogue
Dalia Mogahed - Co-Author, "Who Speaks for Islam? what a Billion Muslims really think"
Hamid Slimi - Chairman & Imam, Canadian Centre For Deen Studies / Sayeda Khadija Centre
Shahed Amanullah - Co-Founder, Affinis Lab
Muslema Purmul - Chaplain, Institute of Knowledge (IOK), California
Hazem Bata - Secretary General, ISNA
Dilshad D. Ali - Chair, Board of Directors, Enabled Muslims
Abdul Malik Mujahid - President, Sound Vision
Albert Press Jr. - President, American Muslim Health Professionals (AMHP)
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Abdelmajid Jondy - President, Flint Islamic Center
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Abdul Aziz Bhuiyan - Chairman , Hillside Islamic Center
Mohammed Wasim Khan - Mufti, Madrasah Islamiah/ ISRA Foundation
Zaid Khan - Instructor , DUA Institute
Asif Uddin - Instructor, Darul Qasim
Abdul Hakim Hamid - Imam , Muslim Community of Florida
Mohibullah N. Durrani - Professor, Muslim Astronomers
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Khalid Mirza - Co-Founder , The Coalition of South Florida Muslim Organizations (COSMOS)
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Ayesha Khan - ICNF
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Raef Mardeni - Member, Self
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Zaher Sahloul - Senior Advisor and past president , Syrian American Medical Society
Karim Mozawalla - Vice President/Trustee, Muslim Community of Nassau County/Masjid Hamza
Baher S Foad - Board member, Islamic center of greater Cincinnati
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Kameelah Rashad - Founder & President, Muslim Wellness Foundation
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Omer Bajwa - Muslim Chaplain, Yale University
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Usama Canon - Founding Director, Ta'leef Collective
Samia Hussein - Vice President/President-Elect, Muslim Coalition of Connecticut
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Bassam Issa - President, Islamic Society of Greater Chattanooga
Lena F. Masri Esq. - Legal Director, Council on American-Islamic Relations, Michigan
Feryal Salem - Professor , Hartford Seminary
Mohammad Fazili - Predident, Islamic Center of Williamson County
Zaynab Salman - Board Member, Deen Intensive Foundation
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Irfan Ahmad Khan - Director, Association for Qur'anic Understanding
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Dawud Walid - Executive Director , CAIR-MI
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Osama Abuirshaid - National Policy Director , American Muslims for Palestine
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Syed Ali - Director, Islamic Speakers Bureau-Dallas/Fort Worth
Eid Farha - President, Islamic Center of Ann Arbor
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Mohamed Salem - Muslim US citizen, Muslim
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HOLY GARBAGE!!!
Each week, In Theory takes
on a big idea in the news and explores it from a range of perspectives.
This week we’re talking about radicalization and “homegrown terrorism.”
Need a primer? Catch up here.
Hamza Yusuf is president of Zaytuna College, the first Muslim liberal arts college in the United States. He also serves as the vice president of the Forum for Promoting Peace in Muslim Societies.
A few days ago, a colleague from the college where I teach and serve as president called to let me know the FBI had just paid a visit. They wanted to inform me that the Orlando shooter, Omar Mateen, had been Googling me on his computer and iPhone. They were concerned that he may have had malevolent intent, given that the Islamic State had called for my death twice in the last year, presumably due to my strong condemnation of the utterly anti-Islamic nature of their “state” in a sermon that went viral in the Middle East.
After some deliberation, I thought of another explanation for Mateen searching for me: Perhaps he had been conflicted about what he was contemplating and wanted to seek advice. I may be guilty of wishful thinking, but I would like to believe that in his heart he knew something was not right. We cannot determine what motivated this young man — who had a wife and a child — to infamously propel himself into American history by means of one of our bloodiest massacres. But my sense, given what we’ve learned about him since then, is that it cannot be reduced to a simple equation.
Mateen
was living a double life (not healthy); he had a troubled childhood
(not good); and he was frustrated in his worldly ambition of becoming a
police officer (not happy). He ended up in a seemingly dead-end job of
security officer at a wealthy housing development, “Dress’d in a little
brief authority / Most ignorant of what he’s most assur’d,” as the Bard
wrote. His violent temper, use of steroids and love for guns were a
volatile cocktail ripe for explosion.
Chasing a ghost: What we know about Omar Mateen Play Video5:30
How
does one cloak one’s pathology in a robe of righteousness? Religion is
usually the garment of choice. A common denigration by those who dread
religion is its constant enlistment into execrable causes. Yet I feel
“impressment” may be more precise than “enlistment.” Much of the
violence we are witnessing has more to do with political vacuums,
disempowerment and self-determination movements that use religion as a
rallying cry in parts of the world that are still deeply theocentric.
Impressionable youth are particularly susceptible to these cries that
are invariably adorned with the language of chivalry, honor and
religious duty.
If we look at the places and people radicalized, certain commonalities emerge. Many of the places have been victims of violence for decades: Palestine, Afghanistan and Chechnya to name a few. As for people being radicalized — leaders notwithstanding — a prerequisite is the lack of substantial education and religious literacy. But perhaps the least understood factor is the role the Internet plays in spreading the memes of mayhem to malleable young minds.
In his eerily prophetic 1969 book, “Between Two Ages,” Zbigniew Brzezinski wrote about the technological future and its potential reach: “In the techtronic society the trend would seem to be towards the aggregation of the individual support of millions of uncoordinated citizens, easily within the reach of magnetic and attractive personalities, exploiting the latest communications techniques to manipulate emotions and control reason.” He was talking about the potential of the Internet, which at the time was the province of the Defense Department and a few universities.
That young men are attracted to violence is an ancient trope found in our earliest masterpieces of literature such as the “Illiad,” “The Song of Roland” and Jahili Arabic poetry where a 7th century poet could write, “War first appears as a dazzling beauty decked out in her ornaments to attract every youthful ignoramus.” Some reduce this male attraction to testosterone levels. Whatever it is, its reality is evident in the recruitment videos of the Islamic State that use the same graphics as the violent video games that many young men obsessively play.
But in the chaotic tenor of our current culture, we lack an understanding the ancients deemed self-evident: the need for what the Japanese called bushido, the Arabs called futuwwa, and what we in the West once called paideia — a type of chivalrous education for young men, where they were challenged to “tame the savageness of man and make gentle the life of the world,” as Aeschylus put it. This is what we lack. Youthful vigor should be channeled to engage in study of the normative Islamic tradition with an emphasis on the tools of learning. With knowledge to ground them, they can face the complexities and challenges of our time with wisdom, not rage.
I wish Omar had called me; I like to think I could have dissuaded him or advised him to seek professional help, or at least helped him channel his anger and frustration into something productive and meaningful. Instead, surfing the Internet, he found a crypt full of contempt and hate that allowed him to clothe his naked aggression in a coat of religiosity.
HOLY GARBAGE!!!
The Orlando shooter Googled my name. I wish he had reached out to me.
By Hamza Yusuf June 24 at 9:00 AM
Members
of the LGBT and Muslim community embrace each other outside the U.S.
Capitol at a vigil for the victims who were shot and killed by a gunman
in an Orlando. (Christian K. Lee/The Washington Post)
Hamza Yusuf is president of Zaytuna College, the first Muslim liberal arts college in the United States. He also serves as the vice president of the Forum for Promoting Peace in Muslim Societies.
A few days ago, a colleague from the college where I teach and serve as president called to let me know the FBI had just paid a visit. They wanted to inform me that the Orlando shooter, Omar Mateen, had been Googling me on his computer and iPhone. They were concerned that he may have had malevolent intent, given that the Islamic State had called for my death twice in the last year, presumably due to my strong condemnation of the utterly anti-Islamic nature of their “state” in a sermon that went viral in the Middle East.
After some deliberation, I thought of another explanation for Mateen searching for me: Perhaps he had been conflicted about what he was contemplating and wanted to seek advice. I may be guilty of wishful thinking, but I would like to believe that in his heart he knew something was not right. We cannot determine what motivated this young man — who had a wife and a child — to infamously propel himself into American history by means of one of our bloodiest massacres. But my sense, given what we’ve learned about him since then, is that it cannot be reduced to a simple equation.
Chasing a ghost: What we know about Omar Mateen Play Video5:30
People
who knew Orlando nightclub shooter Omar Mateen describe him as a man
who had many demons and potentially led a double life. (Erin Patrick
O'Connor,Jayne Orenstein,Thomas LeGro/The Washington Post)
If we look at the places and people radicalized, certain commonalities emerge. Many of the places have been victims of violence for decades: Palestine, Afghanistan and Chechnya to name a few. As for people being radicalized — leaders notwithstanding — a prerequisite is the lack of substantial education and religious literacy. But perhaps the least understood factor is the role the Internet plays in spreading the memes of mayhem to malleable young minds.
In his eerily prophetic 1969 book, “Between Two Ages,” Zbigniew Brzezinski wrote about the technological future and its potential reach: “In the techtronic society the trend would seem to be towards the aggregation of the individual support of millions of uncoordinated citizens, easily within the reach of magnetic and attractive personalities, exploiting the latest communications techniques to manipulate emotions and control reason.” He was talking about the potential of the Internet, which at the time was the province of the Defense Department and a few universities.
That young men are attracted to violence is an ancient trope found in our earliest masterpieces of literature such as the “Illiad,” “The Song of Roland” and Jahili Arabic poetry where a 7th century poet could write, “War first appears as a dazzling beauty decked out in her ornaments to attract every youthful ignoramus.” Some reduce this male attraction to testosterone levels. Whatever it is, its reality is evident in the recruitment videos of the Islamic State that use the same graphics as the violent video games that many young men obsessively play.
But in the chaotic tenor of our current culture, we lack an understanding the ancients deemed self-evident: the need for what the Japanese called bushido, the Arabs called futuwwa, and what we in the West once called paideia — a type of chivalrous education for young men, where they were challenged to “tame the savageness of man and make gentle the life of the world,” as Aeschylus put it. This is what we lack. Youthful vigor should be channeled to engage in study of the normative Islamic tradition with an emphasis on the tools of learning. With knowledge to ground them, they can face the complexities and challenges of our time with wisdom, not rage.
I wish Omar had called me; I like to think I could have dissuaded him or advised him to seek professional help, or at least helped him channel his anger and frustration into something productive and meaningful. Instead, surfing the Internet, he found a crypt full of contempt and hate that allowed him to clothe his naked aggression in a coat of religiosity.
BUT, THIS IS A LOT BETTER NEWS OR THE 22 LIFE SENTENCES FOR A NOTORIOUS WHITE PEDOPHILE AND RAPIST!
OOPS! THEY ALWAYS FORGET TO TELL US WHICH RELIGION THEY BELONG TO WHEN THEY ARE NOT "MUSLIMS" THIS ONE JUST POSED AS A CHRISTIAN!
British pedophile Richard Huckle gets 22 life sentences
By Angela Dewan, CNN
Updated 0546 GMT (1346 HKT) June 7, 2016
Richard Huckle, 30, (POSED AS A CHRISTIAN?) admitted abusing children aged between six months and 12 years.
Story highlights
- 20,000 indecent images of children found on man devices, officials say
- They say he created a 60-page "how-to guide" for other pedophiles
London (CNN)A
London court handed 22 life sentences to a man Monday after he pleaded
guilty to 71 child abuse offenses while in Southeast Asia.
Richard
Huckle, 30, was arrested at Gatwick Airport near London in 2014 as he
returned home from Malaysia, where he committed most of his crimes,
Britain's National Crime Agency said.
Richard Huckle
He confessed to abusing almost 200 children on a blog he published on the dark web, an area of the Internet not easily accessible to the general user.
According
to Court News UK, Huckle posed as a Christian English teacher to groom
and abuse children, including one as young a 6 months, in a poor
Malaysian community over nine years.
He
also committed child abuse in Cambodia, the National Crime Agency said.
British law allows nationals to be prosecuted in their home country for
offenses committed abroad.
The
court heard the amateur photographer took pictures and videos of himself
raping children that he groomed from schools and orphanages, and shared
the images with other pedophiles on the dark web, according to Court
News UK.
In his blog, Huckle
awarded himself "Pedopoints" on a type of scorecard, claiming to have
abused 191 children, according to Court News.
Huckle
then tried to monetize his behavior, accepting bitcoin, the online
currency, to continue the abuse and publish it online, Court News said.
He
forced victims to pose with signs to advertise his business and wrote a
60-page guide entitled "Pedophiles & Poverty: Child Lover Guide"
that the judge called a "truly evil document," Court News said.
Huckle
was caught when Australian police tipped off authorities in an
investigation into a pedophile website that officials said had 9,000
members before it was shut down.
The
NCA said officials had recovered more than 20,000 indecent images of
children from Huckle's computers and cameras, including more than 1,000
of which showed him raping and abusing children in his care.
"Richard
Huckle spent several years integrating himself into the community in
which he lived, making himself a trusted figure. But he abused that
trust in the worst possible way," said James Traynor from the NCA's
Child Exploitation and Online Protection Center.
"He
deliberately traveled to a part of the world where he thought he could
abuse vulnerable children without being caught," he said.
"Borders are no barrier -- we are determined that those who go abroad to abuse children will be held to account."
Huckle, who is from Ashford, Kent, has been ordered to serve at least 25 years of his sentence.
The
court heard about several horrific cases of Huckle's abuse, including
that of a 5-year-old girl on her birthday at his home, the NCA said,
adding that Huckle offered private English language tuition to earn the
trust of children and their families.
Huckle
traveled in and out of Asia over many years, in 2006 spending two weeks
in Cambodia, staying with a local family, whose 3-year-old child was
one of his victims, the NCA said.
In
2007, he returned to Malaysia and stayed with the family of two young
girls, taking up a voluntary teaching post at a small tuition center in
the village, the NCA said. It said he abused the girls over eight years.
CNN's Milena Veselinovic reported from London.
Paedophile Richard Huckle given 22 life sentences for abusing up to 200 children
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Freelance photographer Richard Huckle, from Ashford in Kent, admitted an unprecedented number of offences against children aged between six months and 12 years.
Judge Peter Rook QC ordered the 30-year-old to serve a minimum of 25 years in jail to reflect the "public abhorrence" over his "campaign of rape" spanning nine years.
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Richard Huckle has been given 22 life sentences for sex crimes against Malaysian children (National Crime Agency/PA)
He even tried to make a business out of his horrific crimes by crowd-funding the release of the images and was compiling a paedophile's manual at the time of his arrest by the National Crime Agency.
Twenty-three children from poor Christian communities in the Malaysian capital of Kuala Lumpur were identified in 71 charges, although Huckle's tally of abuse which he catalogued on a "Pedopoints ledger" was much higher.
The defendant stood with his hands together as if in prayer as he was sentenced by Judge Rook at the Old Bailey.
The judge told him his "self-delusion knows no bounds" and the 60-page paedophile manual he had written was a "truly evil document".
He said: "You were and are sexually obsessed with children. You have spent years abusing them. In one of your postings you stated that you had become consumed by your paedophilia.
"It is clear from your postings on hidden encrypted paedophile websites on the dark web, and from the manual you were in the process of drafting, that your life revolved around your obsession with your own sexual gratification by child sex abuse.
"It is also clear that, had you not been arrested, you planned to continue the same lifestyle using the expertise that you were keen to show off to and share with other abusers so as to continue your sexual exploitation of the children of such communities."
In light of Huckle's refusal to hand over encrypted passwords to hidden files on his computer, the judge added: "In my view, you may well harbour feelings of regret but there is no feeling of genuine remorse in this case."
As Huckle was sent down, a woman in the public gallery shouted out that "1,000 deaths is too good for you".
Huckle first visited Malaysia on a teaching gap year when he was 19 and went on to groom more children posing as a respectable Christian English teacher and philanthropist.
Five of the youngsters were living in a children's home and on one occasion he took a girl out to celebrate her fifth birthday and molested her at his house in Kuala Lumpur.
The defendant, who studied IT at university in Malaysia, was arrested by National Crime Agency officials as he arrived at Gatwick Airport en route to spend Christmas with his family in 2014.
Officers seized Huckle's encrypted laptop and managed to uncover more than 20,000 indecent pictures and videos although there were other files they were unable to crack.
They found Huckle's paedophile manual called Paedophiles And Poverty: Child Lover Guide and a "Pedopoints ledger" in which he awarded himself marks for the abuse of 191 girls and boys.
In online posts, Huckle bragged: "Impoverished kids are definitely much easier to seduce than middle-class Western kids."
Commenting on one of his victims, he boasted: "I'd hit the jackpot, a 3yo girl as loyal to me as my dog and nobody seemed to care."
Huckle crowd-funded the release of indecent images of the three-year-old girl in exchange for Bitcoins, achieving 105% of his target.
His parents were so horrified when he confessed his crimes that they begged police to take him away and made statements to support his prosecution, the court heard.
Ahead of his sentencing, Huckle claimed to a psychiatrist that he wanted to put his "madness" behind him and settle down with a south Indian woman.
But the court was shown a posting from 2013 in which he outlined his plan to marry one of his victims in order to help him abuse more children.
Judge Rook concluded that Huckle posed a "substantial risk for an indefinite period".
James Traynor, from the NCA's Child Exploitation and Online Protection (Ceop) command, said "Richard Huckle spent several years integrating himself into the community in which he lived, making himself a trusted figure. But he abused that trust in the worst possible way.
"He deliberately travelled to a part of the world where he thought he could abuse vulnerable children without being caught. Borders are no barrier - we are determined that those who go abroad to abuse children will be held to account."
An NSPCC spokesman said: "Huckle is a frighteningly depraved paedophile, who bragged about raping babies and delighted in abusing infants who trusted him. He left a trail of devastation and his sentence reflects the severity of his crimes which have shattered so many young lives.
"It is horrifying that Huckle was able to profit from this appalling abuse by using the web to sell images and even films to other paedophiles; emphasising the importance, yet again, of the need for a cohesive, global effort from both the authorities and internet services providers to combat this vile trade."
Anthony Hill, international justice and organised crime prosecutor at the Crown Prosecution Service, said: "It is hard to put into words the sheer depravity of this case. For almost nine years, Richard Huckle subjected at least 23 children, some of them very young, to the most horrifying abuse imaginable.
"Due to the determination of the CPS and investigating authorities, this dangerous man has been brought to justice (???) and is no longer a risk to children."
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Shocking new
allegations reveal that not only did at least 24 police officers sleep
with the same prostitute, they also shared intelligence with her and
tipped her off about undercover operations.
The
woman, who goes by the name of 'Celeste Guap', said that she slept with
three of the two dozen officers when she was just 17. She turned 18
last August.
Now, text messages from the Guap shown toKPIX
reveal exchanges with Oakland officers, who appear to warn her about
undercover operations while she was working as a prostitute.
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Underage:
Celeste Guap (left) started having sex with Officer Brendan O'Brien
(right) in 2015 when she was underage, after he saved her from her pimp.
He was the first of 21 police officers she would have sex with
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Text messages from the young
prostitute shown to KPIX reveal exchanges with Oakland officers, who
appear to warn her about undercover operations while she was working as a
prostitute
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In one exchange, Guap asks for details about undercover sting to which the officer acquiesces
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While in another text conversation
with a different Oakland officer, Guap sent a picture of herself having
sex with someone else.
One text exchange with a man saved as 'Superman' begins: 'Be safe today. Want some advice?'
Before continuing: 'Stay off east 14, from Fruitvale to 42 tonight. There's a UC operation.'
Another exchange with a different Oakland officer begins with Guap asking: 'Is it gonna be hot in Oakland tonight?'
The officer then replies that it will be and asked who told her, to which she says: 'Nobody, that's why I'm mad.'
He then replied: 'I told you last night, or I tried to. But you were drunk.'
While
in another text conversation with a different Oakland officer, Guap
sent a picture of herself having sex with someone else and told the man:
'I'm sure you'd be better'.
Out
of the two dozen officers she had sex with, she says she slept with
three of them when she was a minor and that all three of those worked at
Oakland Police Department.
Guap
also gave a break down to KPIX, where she revealed she had sex with 14
officers from Oakland Police Department, five from the Richmond Police
Department, three from Alameda County Sheriff's deputies and one
Livermore cop.
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The woman, who goes by the name of
'Celeste Guap', said that she slept with three of the two dozen officers
when she was 17. She turned 18 last August.
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Resigned: Oakland police chief Sean
Whent (pictured) resigned Thursday after 14 of his officers - including
O'Brien, whose suicide note last September started the investigation -
were revealed to have slept with Guap
Oakland Police Chief Sean Whent resigned Thursday after a sex scandal that began in his department spread to four other cities.
She
also said two Oakland officers provided her with confidential police
information, including tips on scheduled anti-prostitution stings and
arrest records, The Mercury News reported.
At
the announcement of Whent's resignation on Friday, Mayor Libby Schaaf
said: 'I'm extremely angry about the alleged misconduct in this
department.'
Despite
this, both Schaaf and city administrator Sabrina Landreth claimed
Whent's departure was nothing to do with the scandal, the East Bay Express reported.
But
sources told both The Mercury News and the East Bay Express that Whent
was pressured to resign by the department's federal overseer, Robert
Warshaw.
Whent's
resignation came after his superiors discovered that both he and his
wife had found out about the misconduct by various officers long before
it became public, and refused to escalate the information, the East Bay
Express claimed.
At least 14 of Whent's officers had been sexually involved with Guap, whose mother is an Oakland police dispatcher.
She
also told Mercury News she had slept with five Richmond police
officers, four Alameda County Sheriff's deputies, one Livermore officer
and a law enforcement worker based in Stockton.
One of the sheriff's deputies had sex with her in his personal automobile while his K-9 dog sat in the back, she said.
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The
investigation into the officers' relationship began in September 2015,
after married Officer Brendan O'Brien, who had been having an affair
with Guap since she was 17, killed himself and named her and several
officers in his suicide note.
Since
then, two-dozen officers have been revealed to have slept with Guap,
some of whom provided her with confidential information.
'I
think cops are fine. They're cute and all, but it's like one less
officer that's gonna arrest me,' she told the East Bay Express.
Under
the screen name 'Superman,' one officer wrote: 'Want some advice? Stay
off E14 from Fruitvale to 42(nd Avenue) tonight. There's a UC (an
undercover) operation.'
She replied: 'Thank u daddy I appreciate it (I don't) wanna go to jail lol.'
Guap
told the East Bay Express that 'Superman' had put her in a taxi after
she approached him drunk and lost. She began having sex with him a week
later.
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Underage: Guap started working as a
prostitute when she was 12, but didn't meet O'Brien until she was 17. He
was the first cop she had sex with. Her mom works as an Oakland police
dispatcher
She
also identified Officer Terryl Smith, one of the two officers who
resigned from Oakland PD earlier this year, as someone who gave her
arrest records and other confidential information.
'I
would hook up with [Smith] like every Saturday night for three months
straight,' Guap said. 'He had a mattress in his back seat and slept in
his car in the OPD parking lot, so we would hook up after work.'
In
addition, she said, a retired Oakland police captain in his 80s
contacted her on Facebook in 2015, when she was underage, and
eventually paid $250 to have sex with her in a motel after she turned
18.
The
captain, who draws a $125,000 pension from the city, admitted to
sleeping with the girl and said he found her because she was friends
with lots of other officers on Facebook.
But he warned the Express: 'Please don't publish my name. I will die. I have a heart condition.' The paper left him anonymous.
The
Express also says that according to text messages it obtained, Guap
would have frequent late-night text conversations with Officer Luis
Roman while he was on duty; he would send her texts and she would send
him pictures of her naked body.
Roman told the paper that he knew of other officers' relationships with Guap but denied any wrongdoing himself.
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Information: Guap had sex with police
for protection from arrest, and also because they would give her info
about undercover stings. Her tattoo reads 'Dios, Patria, Libertad',
which means 'God, Homeland, Liberty.'
Barry
Donelan, president of Oakland's police union, said he was 'mortified
and deeply embarrassed' by the allegations. 'If any of this is true, it
is an absolute betrayal of what we stand for,' he said.
The
scandal is a blow to a department that has been under federal oversight
because of failures to adequately hold officers accountable for
misdeeds.
Guap,
who began selling herself on the streets of Richmond at age 12 and
eventually ended up in Oakland's International Boulevard, a well known
sex-trafficking hub, said many officers knew she was underage.
'They nicknamed me 'juve,' which is short for juvenile,' said Guap.
She
said O'Brien was the first officer she met. The two began a sexual
relationship after he defended her from a pimp and others soon followed.
Police
opened up an investigation after O'Brien committed suicide on September
25, 2015, at the age of 30, leaving a note naming officers involved
with the woman. His wife had died a year earlier.
'They were my protectors,' she said. 'I didn't have a pimp at the time. It did make me feel safer, having them.'
Guap,
who is now 18 and lives in Richmond, California, started revealing
details on Facebook, suggesting she had illicit encounters with officers
- calling the relationships 'harmless' but insisted that she did not
'snitch' on anyone.
Guap made several suggestive posts on Facebook hinting at sexual affairs with police officers
Last year, Guap shared a post suggesting an Oakland police officer had dropped her off near her home in Richmond, California
Last
year, she posted on the site: 'The only officer I ever messed with
underage is sadly gone now, so I don't know why this is still being
brought up.'
That
remark referenced O'Brien, but since then two more officers have been
named as having had sex with Guap while she was underage.
At
least one of those officers, who has not been named, is facing a
statutory rape charge in a criminal investigation that is also
underway.
In
April 2015, the teenager posted a picture of an Oakland PD vehicle
after claiming to have been dropped her off near her home, writing:
'Took me back to Richmond in style.'
She
also shared a Facebook status in which she - alongside a police officer
emoji - wrote: 'Calls me his Mrs Undercover… that's cuz we always
undercover.'
O'Brien's wife, Irma Huerta Lopez, died in June 2014, according to the East Bay Express.
Her family believe O'Brien shot her and a coroner's report seen by the newspaper said her death was 'suspicious'.
Read more:
- Underage Sex Scandal Rocks Oakland Police Department « CBS San Francisco
- Oakland Police Underage Sex Scandal Involves Cop Who Possibly Killed His Wife | East Bay Express
- Video: New details emerge about sex scandal swirling around Oakland police, 3 officers on administrative leave | KRON4.com
- Oakland police sex scandal spreads to other East Bay departments - San Jose Mercury News
- The Real Reason Why Oakland's Police Chief Was Fired | East Bay Express
- Texts Reveal Officers Gave Teen In OPD Sex Scandal Of Undercover Intel « CBS San Francisco
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