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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Replying to @mtracey
Same was done after the Boston bombing; we later learned that Dzhokhar was the product of a quintessentially American experience.
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Replying to @mtracey
One of Mateen's co-workers mentioned Mateen kept using n-word. Mateen didn't learn that from the Koran.
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Replying to @HeerJeet
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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Replying to @SethBarronNYC @HeerJeet
There's a French-influenced form of Islam that is common in France. Same type of thing.
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Sounds like there are some common threads between all these forms!
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Replying to @SethBarronNYC @HeerJeet
read my subsequent tweets.
6:26 PM - 12 Jun 2016
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