This shooting is more about homophobia than ISIS.

[UCmeNdc]

“This was homophobia as well as terrorism. It is not enough to simply condemn violence: we have to understand what it is and why it happened,”


To ignore the homophobia and say it was more about terrorism is to negate the hate directed toward gays. The GOP wants to make the shooting a ISIS issue. Not a gay hate crime. But in reality it is more of a gay hate crime than Islamic terrorism.

[RobertEarl]

1. Yep. Homophobia driven terror

The politicians will use it to get their war on the ME because there is money to be made there.

Trump, especially.

[uponit7771]

2. I agree, sounds like he supported groups that were counter to ISIS and was an all around asshole...

... who was homophobic murderer

[Matrosov]

3. Not mutually exclusive

If he wanted to show his support for ISIS specifically or radical Islam in general, attacking a gay club isn't exactly the worst way to go about it. Islamic law considers homosexuality a sin, and may even be punished by death in places with the strictest interpretations, like Iran and Saudi Arabia. ISIS of course has a nasty habit of throwing homosexuals off buildings, among other forms of execution.

[Dreamer Tatum]

4. It can be and is both. Nt

[King_David]

5. ISIS and Homophobia are the same thing...

Horrific moment two gay men are thrown off tall building by ISIS then stoned by baying mob including children

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3198283/Horrific-moment-two-gay-men-thrown-tall-building-ISIS-stoned-baying-mob-including-children.html

[JI7]

6. it's connected . anti gay is one of the things ISIS is about

And western support for it.

[uppityperson]

7. There are too many homophobes silently applauding. NOT on DU, but around the country

This was a hate crime. Here's a quick example. Why did Facebook have a French first overlay after the mass murders there, and no fish overheat about this? Unless they just put one up.

[Lizzie Poppet]

8. It's all a big, nasty mix in the heads of people like the shooter, I'd suspect.

But yeah, I'd agree: bubbling to the top of that messed-up brew had to be a big ol' portion of homophobia.

[Egnever]

9. ISIS is an excuse to distract from the real issue

Guns.

If you can blame it on ISIS then the other gun owners don't seem quite so ominous.

ISIS had nothing to do with this.