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originally posted by: 3NL1GHT3N3D1
So what's with him calling police and claiming he did it in the name of Islam and ISIS? Both narratives can't be true.
originally posted by: mOjOm
originally posted by: Boadicea
That's the part where he redeems himself with his father and his religion and goes out a martyr in a blaze of gunfire... and not a weak shell of a man dying from AIDS and bringing further shame and dishonor to his father/family/faith.
Exactly!!
Can you imagine the shame of dying from AIDS from Gay sex if your family is Middle Eastern Muslim Establishment???
Hell no you don't go out like that. Even if it means you go out with a fat lie that you're doing it for ISIS and to defy the Great Babylon or whatever. At least there's a chance that after you're dead you're family won't have to deal with the shame of the truth.
That sux too man. Dude spends his whole life living a lie and hiding his true self out of some culture of shame and religious intolerance only to come face to face with that lie as it puts him into a spot he can't escape without exposing everything. Still doesn't excuse what he did though the Dirt Bag. A real man would have just committed suicide instead of taking 49 innocent people along out of shame.
originally posted by: Boadicea
a reply to: Annee
I posted one link at the top of the page, but this one from Reuters might be better:
Mateen altered looks, researched anti-psychotic drugs before attack
originally posted by: mbkennel
a reply to: Gryphon66
It's both.
The repressed sexual identity and cultural background gave him his problems and his hate and probably even suicidal ideation.
The ideology of Islamic terrorism gave him psychological freedom to murder.
Suicide is haram/prohibited in Islam, but martyrdom (we call it "suicide by cop") is halal/allowed.
IMO, his profile sounds like most of the other mass murderers. He just happens to also be Islamic and probably gay.
The Citizens Commission on Human Rights (CCHR), a non-profit mental health watchdog dedicated to the eradication of abuses committed under the guise of mental health, is asking law enforcement and the FBI to look into the psychiatric background of Omar Mateen as part of an ongoing effort to expose the deadly link between psychiatric drugs and violence.
prescription drugs: Prednisone and other corticosteroids[42] Isotretinoin[43] Anticholinergic drugs atropine[44][45] scopolamine[46] antidepressants[47] L-dopa[48] antiepileptics[49] antipsychotics, in an idiosyncratic reaction Other illegal drugs (not listed above), including: MDMA (ecstasy)[50] Phencyclidine (PCP)[51] Ketamine
originally posted by: Boadicea
a reply to: Gryphon66
Wow. Thank you for the link -- that was interesting reading. I was surprised at the many common, as well as the corticisteroids. I found another article about similar effects with anabolic steroids. But the scopolamine also caught my eye.
He was researching psychiatric drugs though, so it seems he had some reason to think they were the problem -- whether they had been prescribed, or maybe he thought someone was feeding them to him?
originally posted by: Gryphon66
what if he were self-medicating? :
In an article first reported by The Foreign Desk, Al Qaeda of the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP) called for more self-directed Muslim terrorists to kill in America. But the article, titled “Inspire guide: Orlando operation,” tells terrorists to “avoid targeting places and crowds where minorities are generally found” because if gays or Latinos appear to be the targets, “the federal government will be the one taking full responsibility.”