ISIS claims responsibility for Orlando Florida nightclub shooting: Amaq News Agency tied to group

[MowCowWhoHow III]

Source: Daily Star (Lebanon)

CAIRO: ISIS' Amaq news agency said on Sunday that the Islamist militant group was responsible for the shooting that killed at least 50 people in a massacre at a gay nightclub in Orlando, Florida.

"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," Amaq said.

Read more: http://www.dailystar.com.lb/News/Lebanon-News/2016/Jun-12/356615-isis-claims-responsibility-for-orlando-florida-nightclub-shooting-amaq-news-agency-tied-to-group.ashx

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[shenmue]

1. Pieces of shit

[Gore1FL]

2. I wonder if they were actually involved of just taking credit for it. nt

[Ellipsis]

4. Either way, they are truly "proper fucked" now.

..that being ISIS.

[philosslayer]

10. How so?

What exactly do you think is going to happen now above and beyond whats already been happening?

[Ellipsis]

11. On our soil. Game changer.

[philosslayer]

12. Again, how?

How is "the game going to change"? What happens next?

[Ellipsis]

18. It's an act of War.

https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18/2331

[philosslayer]

21. So you're saying we're going to declare war on ISIS now?

Boots on the ground? The whole deal?

[MariaThinks]

49. Enough radical islam related deaths.

[atreides1]

52. No it isn't

4) the term “act of war” means any act occurring in the course of—
(A) declared war;
(B) armed conflict, whether or not war has been declared, between two or more nations; or
(C) armed conflict between military forces of any origin; and

(A)No declaration of war has been enacted
(B)The US does not recognize ISIS as a sovereign nation
(C)ISIS fighters are not regarded as military forces but as insurgents

None of those apply!!!

(5) the term “domestic terrorism” means activities that—
(A) involve acts dangerous to human life that are a violation of the criminal laws of the United States or of any State;
(B) appear to be intended—
(i) to intimidate or coerce a civilian population;
(ii) to influence the policy of a government by intimidation or coercion; or
(iii) to affect the conduct of a government by mass destruction, assassination, or kidnapping; and
(C) occur primarily within the territorial jurisdiction of the United States.


This would be a better application. Remember the attacker was a natural born American citizen

[Ellipsis]

54. I stand corrected...

[ileus]

26. What is this the 2nd or 3ed time?

We didn't mind the first few?


We won't care about this one...


We're too busy blaming Google, Banks, and Republicans for all our problems.

[840high]

39. Nothing will change. We love PC.

[Jesus Malverde]

64. Cuckold Nation...nt

[sofa king]

44. It might severely reduce tolerance for conservatism, worldwide.

America's gay community has worldwide reach and influence. They've already been the chosen punching bag of domestic conservatives for all of this millenium. Now they're the go-to target of international conservatives, too. While saddened by this violence, I am glad our enemies chose the gay community as their enemy, for they are the best equipped to lead the worldwide counteroffensive against conservative hatred.

It's going to encourage some of us, like me, to make the claim that there is no real difference between Christian conservatives and Islamic conservatives. The problem, the disease, is conservatism itself.

It's time to treat conservatism as what it really is: a mental disorder which has no place in politics or public service. It's time to treat our stupid, frightened, insane conservative friends as people in need of treatment. It's time to treat each one of them as an intellectually disabled time-bomb who needs to be identified, approached, and psychologically defused, rather than frightened and exploited for political and monetary gain.

It's not going to happen tomorrow, but the societies that survive the 21st Centuries are all going to have to come to terms with the fact that the small minded racists, homophobes, and misogynists among us, the fascists who long for an idealized past which never existed, they are all people whose minds have been poisoned with hate, and the hatred is a warning sign of the violence to come.

It is time to treat lack of tolerance as a mental illness which, until CURED, should limit the civic and political choices an individual can make. And yes, maybe being declared a conservative will limit one's access to guns, too.

[Odin2005]

48. Time to wipe these fuckers off the map.

[MariaThinks]

50. yes it is. Where ever they may be.

[scscholar]

51. The NRA is more responsible for this than ISIS

You're wrong.

[leftynyc]

62. Bullshit

The guns just made it easier to kill many. The hatred is what is responsible.

[Yo_Mama]

13. Well, apparently the guy called 911 to pledge allegiance to ISIS

Otherwise, probably they were just "inspirational".

We live in an insane world, but the crazies have found each other.

[SunSeeker]

57. Yes, his ex-wife said on CNN he was bipolar.

Apparently he started exhibiting symptoms about 3 months after they got married, forcing her to flee the marriage.

That man should not have been allowed to buy a pea shooter let alone an assault rifle.

[PatSeg]

15. I would think

they are "just taking credit for it". So far there is no evidence that they were "involved" aside from possibly being an inspiration.

[Gore1FL]

29. That's what I was thinking.

They too a long time to claim responsibility--and didn't seem to do so until other information was revealed.

[PatSeg]

58. The backlash is going to be so ugly

as so many try to politicize it.

Love you tagline!

[cynzke]

65. The Perfect Storm.

A heinous act is committed by a homophobic who happens to be Muslim. What a PERFECT OPPORTUNITY for ISIS. They can now HYPE this as evidence to their followers that ISIS has power and influence reaching throughout the world. Isis TAKES CREDIT because this HELPS them and they did not lift a finger themselves, just reaching out to those "lone wolves" they hope to catch with their hate and poison. And look how we are now scurrying around in a frenzy like ants who have been prodded by a stick!

[PatSeg]

70. Yes

And then in this country politicians can play on the fear and hate yet again. I really feel for anyone in the U.S. who can be perceived as Mideastern after politicians and the media hype Islamophobia 24/7. So many don't care about the victims as much as they care about what they can gain from this tragedy.

[cstanleytech]

19. Unless they also released a video of the guy claiming to have done it with their help

and released it themselves I am going to go with just claiming credit in order to make themselves look more powerful than they really are.

[7962]

3. We gonna call it what it is NOW?

Or keep whistling past the graveyard like in the past?

[sulphurdunn]

5. We already know what it is.

Sadly, the American right and ruling elites refuses to admit why it is. Of course, that would make it difficult to sell continuing to do what hasn't worked.

[7962]

6. Its our admin. who continue to refuse to mention "Islamic extremists"

This guy checks off most of the boxes, and had been investigated by the FBI as well.
He calls in and tells why he's doing it.
And yet we still want to ignore the fact that many Islamic countries will actually KILL you for just being gay

I dont know what was "right wing" about this guy.

[secondwind]

7. These folks tend to be very conservative.. a liberal he was not

[christx30]

9. This guy wasn't on the conservative/liberal

spectrum. He was a fundamentalist nut job.
It was a Muslim so he was hated by the right. He was anti-gay, and he beat women, so he was hated by the left.

[Zen Democrat]

36. All fundamentalists are right-wing, in every religion. That's the problem!

[GummyBearz]

66. Yet was a registered democratic voter

Bernie Sanders got a ton of flak for switching from -I to -D. This killer has been a -D all his life. Kinda makes it hard to argue both sides of that fence.

[Angel Martin]

8. people who deny the obvious just look like fools,

politicians included !

[ck4829]

16. You can call them "Islamic extremist" as much as you like, that won't destroy them

They're not Beetlejuice.

[sulphurdunn]

17. This is blowback from the ME wars

our government has been fomenting since we first threw our weight behind the Palestinian Nakkba in 1948, overthrew the Iranian government in 1953 and armed the mujahedin against the Russians in 1979. We've been destabilizing the region for generations. Things keep getting worse. Millions of people have been hurt, killed, displaced and terrorized. It didn't start coming home to roost until the first Twin Tower bombing in 1993. Our solution has been to double down and divert increasingly scarce resources to wars we won't win so we can maintain an empire that is crumbling from within.

[King_David]

20. What did the Gays do to them?

Where's that hate come from in your theory?

What caused the blowback on Gays?

[sulphurdunn]

23. When secular, civil societies

unravel, religious fundamentalism always rises up to demand the blood of unbelievers and other sinners . The Quran, like the Bible, requires homosexuals be put to death. The difference is that ISIS has replaced secular government with a murderous, inquisitorial theocracy that considers its holy book a governing document. They terrorize and murder to retain control. They target anyone different or insufficiently pious for punishment and even death. Gay infidels, especially Americans are prime targets of opportunity for such insane zeal and madness.

[King_David]

24. Well fuck them then ,

If they hate gays that much and try to kill us at every turn ,then fuck them , they should just GTFO of our breathing space.

[sulphurdunn]

28. They weren't in our breathing space

and were kept under control by secular governments in Lebanon, Iraq, Syria and Libya until we led the way in destroying those countries under the auspices of our neoconservative foreign policy establishment.

[King_David]

30. Well there's a huge problem now

And if they can't accept Gays and continue to try wipe us out , fuck them ...

And this guy was an American born Muslim extremist hater ...what's that got to do with the ME or anything?

[sulphurdunn]

38. Before WWII

There was a very large American Nazi Party. That had plenty to do with Europe, and in its own right America has always been fertile ground for extremist bigotry and racism of all kinds. Homophobia has always been near the top of the chart.

[King_David]

41. In 2016 the very worst Homophobia is coming from Islamic extremists

Throwing Gay people off buildings, stoning Gays to death and killing 50 Gay ( so this murdering terrorist scum thought anyway) in cold blood.... This is a huge problem in backward countries and now this medieval backward hate is being brought to the USA.

[passiveporcupine]

60. His father supports the Taliban, and the Taliban hates gays

Where do you think he learned this hatred against gays?

He had a lot of war time ME influence from his family. He was a screwed up young man who was filled with anger and hate, and took it out on his wife first. Then she left him...that made him even angrier, no doubt.

He bought into the ISIS hate and rage and professed to support them. That doesn't mean he ever communicated with them, and his ex wife and parents say he wasn't religious, so this wasn't about the Muslim faith. I think he was just a genuine homophobe with unmanageable hatred and rage, and finally lashed out at the thing he hated most. It probably didn't help the the FBI investigated him twice (and interviewed him) for racist and homophobic language he used in front of co-workers...they reported him. That just spurred on his rage.

He was a time bomb waiting to happen.

[AntiBank]

43. create the Arc of Crisis they did

[cynzke]

67. Lets Not Isolate Islamic Fundamentalism Here.

There are plenty of Christian Groups/Pastors on video demanding that we execute Gays in this country and while we have YET to legislate from this prospective, have NO DOUBT that there have been attempts to TRY and there are plenty of people who want laws enacted that would allow radical punishment and death for LGBT's.

[sulphurdunn]

71. Please read again

I could be wrong, and I know spousal abuse is not uncommon anywhere, but I honestly don't think that most women or their parents will not put up with much of it regardless of what fundamentalist religion or culture have to say on the subject, and that plays in spades for premeditated mass murder.

Fundamentalist religion and culture are not peculiar to Islam. Sorry if I did not make that clear.

[7962]

32. Not a damn thing. nt

[McKim]

37. Amen!

What were we expecting after killing all those people in Iraq, Afghanistan, Libya and Syria! What surprises me is what took them so long. We have to stop the wars and help Israel turn around. This is why I won't vote for Hillary, she will give them more of the same and it will all continue.

[King_David]

42. What's that got to do with murdering 50 Gay people ,

How were we involved in all that?
Why is it that we are hated for what you've said there?
Your post makes no sense.

[vkkv]

22. "" Its our admin. who continue to refuse to mention "Islamic extremists" ""

Its our admin. who continue to refuse to mention "Islamic extremists"

WRONG

"" This guy checks off most of the boxes, and had been investigated by the FBI as well.
He calls in and tells why he's doing it.
And yet we still want to ignore the fact that many Islamic countries will actually KILL you for just being gay :"""""

"MANY"? AS IN MORE THAN SEVERAL? PLEASE NAME THREE AND PROVIDE PROOF OF YOU STATEMENT

"""" I dont know what was "right wing" about this guy. """""

HE WAS A U.S. CITIZEN.. WHO ALSO HAPPENED TO BE A WIFE-BEATING PSYCHO WHO WAS ALLOWED TO BUY A FIREARM.. FIREARM BEING CRUCIAL TO THE MASS MURDERING OBJECTIVE.

[7962]

35. Really? Are you that ignorant of these countries laws?

By the way, "Many" & "several" mean the same thing.
Iran
Saudi Arabia
Yemen
Sudan
Mauritania
here's one of the laws:
"Article 308: Any adult Muslim who has committed an indecent act or an act against nature with an individual of the same sex will be punished to death by public stoning. If the act is between two women, they will be punished by the punishment established in paragraph one of Article 306.”

Look the rest up yourself; simply being gay is illegal in more than 50 countries.

[cynzke]

68. BI-POLAR PSYCHO, HOMOPHOBIC HATER...

Who saw a brilliant opportunity to AGGRANDIZE himself INTO a roll as an international terrorist. He is PLAYING this country, showing the world we are paranoid racists who jump in fear at the mention of certain BUZZ WORDS.

[Zen Democrat]

34. Gay hate, for one thing. The NRA is responsible - for opposing a gun ban for people on watch list.

Like this guy.

The NRA and the Republican Congress are the direct enablers of this, as they recently blocked legislation to prohibit gun sales to people on the US terrorist watch list.

[cynzke]

69. Mateen Was Not On a Watch List.....

at the time he bought his weapons.

[Yo_Mama]

14. Denying will continue. n/t

[840high]

40. We know what it is.

[smirkymonkey]

25. Ugh! Just sickening.

[applegrove]

27. They didn't use the isis slur for gay people. They used the arabic word. Makes experts think that it

wasn't actual ISIS claiming responsibility. Vibes to all the families, friends and victims.

[King_David]

31. Link ?

[applegrove]

33. CNN

[MowCowWhoHow III]

61. IS claims Orlando shooter as 'soldier of caliphate' in radio bulletin

#BREAKING IS claims Orlando shooter as 'soldier of caliphate' in radio bulletin
https://twitter.com/AFP/status/742286243191488512

[truthisfreedom]

45. This officially makes L.Governor Dan Patrick of Texas an ISIS sympathizer

http://www.cnet.com/news/texas-politicians-tweet-after-orlando-massacre-appalls-twitter/

[braddy]

46. Get used to it, this will increase for the rest of your life.

[Odin2005]

47. Evil fucking bastards.

[jtuck004]

55. Oh, well, of course they did. And we know it came from the official head of ISIS since

we have all that so clearly defined.

They are trolling the United States.

[ancianita]

59. On our soil now. Which makes us not an NDAA legal "battleground," but a real battleground.

[ancianita]

56. They're delighted to claim it. They hope recruitment begins within the Great Satan.

Apparently the FBI Watch List needs better watching.

[Jesus Malverde]

63. Thank you MCWHIII for your posts...nt