Attempts to blame nebulous "foreign" influence for these attacks is a way to deny the peculiarly American pathologies that give rise to them
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Even to the degree that belief in Islam motivated his actions -- American Islam can take on its own peculiarly American pathologies.
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None of this is to deny that foreign-originating influences might have impinged on him -- just that they fuse with American influences.
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Nor is it to deny that religious belief might've impelled him to do this. Anyone who'd flatly reject that prospect is a weird denialist.
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He reportedly made pilgrimage to Mecca and was described by a friend as "quite religious." Doesn't make him any less "American."
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One of Mateen's co-workers mentioned Mateen kept using n-word. Mateen didn't learn that from the Koran.
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Right, and even to the extent that Islam motivated his actions, it's likely to have been an Americanized, modern form of Islam.
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Yes, now I recall all those Norman Rockwell paintings of Chechen jihadist gym rats and their gangster relatives.
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his massacre was exclusively the product of islamic theocratic ideology, it's stupid to distract from that
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