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Media Ignore External Influences on 'Homegrown Extremist' Mateen
NewsBusters.org ^ | June 13, 2016 | Tom Blumer

Posted on 06/13/2016 5:06:32 PM PDT by Kaslin

In his second speech on Sunday morning's terrorist massacre in Orlando, Florida, President Barack Obama said  on Monday that "the shooter was inspired by various extremist information that was disseminated over the Internet," that "we see no clear evidence that he was directed externally," and that "this is certainly an example of the kind of homegrown extremism that all of us have been so concerned about for a very long time."

The press, led as usual by the Associated Press, is certainly cooperating with those characterizations. Presumptive Democratic Party presidential nominee Hillary Clinton has clearly made up her mind that Omar Mateen committed a "lone wolf" attack, and that banning "assault weapons" would somehow prevent future such attacks. The problem, of course, is what one means by "homegrown" and "directed."

Omar Mateen's Afghan immigrant father, Seddique Mir Mateen, imported his support for the terrorist Taliban into the U.S. as his son grew up. According to a former high school classmate, as reported Sunday evening in the Washington Post, on September 11, 2001, the teenaged Omar, likely affected by his father's influence, "stood up in class during the 9/11 attack and after the second plane hit the building he started jumping up-and-down cheering on the terrorist."

One influence readers almost definitely won't see in the establishment press — his name couldn't be found in searches at the AP or at the New York Times — is Marcus Dwayne Robertson, even though Fox News's Malia Zimmerman published her disturbing and infuriating dispatch early Sunday evening (link added by me; HT Conservative Treehouse; bolds are mine throughout this post):

Orlando gunman tied to radical imam released from prison last year, say law enforcement sources

The gunman who murdered at least 50 people in a Florida nightclub early Sunday morning was a follower of a controversial gang leader-turned-bank robber who was released from prison last year despite warnings from prosecutors that he would recruit people to carry out violent acts, sources told FoxNews.com. (The current toll of those murdered is 49, with the now-dead Mateen. — Ed.)

Omar Mateen, whose bloody siege inside a packed Orlando gay nightclub ended when SWAT teams stormed the building and killed him, was a radical Muslim who followed Marcus Dwayne Robertson, a law enforcement source said.

“It is no coincidence that this happened in Orlando,” said a law enforcement source familiar with Robertson’s history of recruiting terrorists and inciting violence. “Mateen was enrolled in [Robertson’s online] Fundamental Islamic Knowledge Seminary.”

... Robertson's school may not have been the only source of Mateen's spiritual guidance. The gunman was at the Islamic Center of Fort Pierce with Imam Shafiq Rahman two days before the nightclub attack, according to The Washington Post.

... FoxNews.com has reported extensively on Robertson, a former U.S. Marine who served as a bodyguard to the Blind Sheik involved in the 1993 World Trade Center Attack and led a gang of New York bank robbers called “Ali Baba and the 40 Thieves” before resurfacing in Orlando, where he started an Islamic seminary.

The Blind Sheik, aka Omar Abdel-Rahman, who clearly influenced Robertson, did not come to the U.S. until 1990 at age 52. The extremism Robertson has promoted and which influenced Omar Mateen is hardly "homegrown" or exclusively "disseminated over the Internet."

(While on the topic, why would we be comforted if Mateen really was a "lone wolf,"even though as seen in this post, he really wasn't in any meaningful sense? Apparently, lib-logic dictates that if we prevent "lone wolves" with "mental stability" problems from getting guns, we'll all be safer. Of course, this would in short order turn into an excuse to prevent any and all gun purchases, because after all, how can we really tell how stable a person is or will be? Next: Confiscation, because how can we trust our neighbors to be mentally stable enough at all times?)

The Fox News report identifies another potential reason besides the apparent desperate need to characterize Omar Mateen as a "lone wolf" why Robertson's name hasn't yet surfaced in the establishment press, and possibly never will:

... Prosecutors said wiretaps from 2011 proved Robertson instructed one of his students, Jonathan Paul Jimenez, to file false tax returns to obtain a tax refund to pay for travel to Mauritania for terror training.

Jimenez studied with Robertson for a year in preparation for his travel to Mauritania, where he would study and further his training in killing, suicide bombing, and identifying and murdering U.S. military personnel. He pleaded guilty in 2012 to lying to authorities and conspiring to defraud the IRS and was sentenced to 10 years in federal prison.

Robertson was arrested on a firearms charge in 2011 and pleaded guilty in January 2012. On March 14, 2012, federal authorities charged him with conspiring to defraud the IRS, which he was convicted of in December 2013.

... efforts by federal prosecutors to tack on another 10 years to his sentence, based on enhanced terrorism charges under the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, were not persuasive enough for U.S. District Judge Gregory Presnell, who freed Robertson in June 2015 with time served.

Judge Presnell, who has since assumed senior status, is a Bill Clinton appointee. A video posted at YouTube of a local TV station's report at the time of Robertson's release describes what the judge did in stark terms: "Judge Gregory Presnell ... basically chose not to believe a would-be terrorist who confessed that Marcus Dwayne Robertson was training him to be a terrorist." The judge bought Robertson's argument that he was just "mentoring" the poor lad.

Finally, there's the elephant in the room, the influence of Islam itself as its adherents believe it is supposed to be practiced in everyday life, according to Islamic law.

The AP's coverage of Hillary Clinton's reaction tried to separate Mateen's antipathy towards homosexuals from his religion as follows:

Despite the 911 call from the club, Mateen's intentions seemed to become murkier when his Afghan immigrant father suggested another motive: anti-gay hatred. The father said his son got angry a few months ago when he saw two men kissing in Miami.

Thus, we're supposed to infer that "anti-gay hatred" really has nothing to do with any aspect of genuine Islam.

If so, why was Sheikh Sekaleshfar, an imam who believes that homosexuals must be put to death, a speaker at the Husseini Islamic Center in Sanford, Florida, a 35-minute drive from Orlando, just two months ago?

For those who think that this situation was a one-off, former federal prosecutor and National Review columnist Andrew McCarthy has news for you — it wasn't. Anyone who truly understands and advocates sharia law believes that gays must die (links are in original):

Killing Homosexuals Is Not ISIS Law, It Is Muslim Law
For nearly 25 years, we’ve been clinging to the fiction that groups such as ISIS are anti-Islamic.

... There are various ways to interpret Islamic scripture in order to attempt to evolve it out of violence. This, of course, does not change the fact that supremacist, fundamentalist Islam is a legitimate, mainstream, virulently anti-Western interpretation of Islam; but it does at least mean that there can be other mainstream versions of Islam that reject violence and Islam’s politico-legal system.

Sharia, on the other hand, is basically set in stone. (Or should I say “stoning”?) Even most Islamic reformers acknowledge that it badly needs reform — not that it can be reinterpreted, but that it needs to be changed. Its provisions and especially its draconian punishments were largely fixed a millennium ago. The mandate that homosexuals be killed is not from ISIS or al-Qaeda. It is from sharia — which draws on Muslim scripture.

... The inspiration for Muslims to brutalize and mass murder gay people does not come from ISIS. It is deeply rooted in Islamic law, affirmed by many of Islam’s most renowned scholars. This is why, wherever sharia is the law, homosexuals are persecuted and killed. See, for instance, this 2014 Washington Post report listing ten Muslim countries where homosexuality may be punished by death (Yemen, Iran, Mauritania, Nigeria, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Somalia, Sudan, United Arab Emirates, and Iraq — notwithstanding its new, U.S.-supported constitution).

Note, again, that Omar Mateen is the American-born son of immigrants from Afghanistan, where homosexuality may also be punished by death — notwithstanding American nation-building efforts there for the last 15 years.

... The problem with mass immigration from sharia enclaves is not merely that trained terrorists may infiltrate the immigrant population. It is that sharia-adherent, assimilation-resistant Muslims will form sharia enclaves in the U.S., as they have throughout Europe, where young Muslims will be “radicalized” under our noses in the years to come.

Today, we have gotten another glimpse of radicalization, which is not “homegrown” but rather fueled by a foreign, anti-American, anti-liberty ideology.

McCarthy recognizes the folly of calling Omar Mateen a "homegrown terrorist" for what it is. As this post has shown, it's especially odious in this case because:



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1 posted on 06/13/2016 5:06:32 PM PDT by Kaslin
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To: Kaslin

External? Jihad comes from inside.


2 posted on 06/13/2016 5:07:49 PM PDT by Paladin2 (auto spelchk? BWAhahahaaa.....)
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To: Kaslin

No matter that he had made two trips to Saudi Arabia....


3 posted on 06/13/2016 5:08:11 PM PDT by JBW1949 (I'm really PC....PATRIOTICALLY CORRECT!!!!)
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To: Kaslin

“if you repeat a lie often enough,
people eventually see right through it”


4 posted on 06/13/2016 5:10:08 PM PDT by dontreadthis
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To: Kaslin

Not “homegrown” at all.

He attended mosques regularly. He even traveled to the heart of his cult’s darkness. An overseas pilgrimage to worship the demonic black rock in Mecca.


5 posted on 06/13/2016 5:13:15 PM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
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To: JBW1949

You mean Mecca? What mooslim hasn’t? I betcha that arrogant pos occupant of 1600 Pennsylvania Ave has.


6 posted on 06/13/2016 5:16:33 PM PDT by Kaslin (He needed the ignorant to reelect him. He got them and now we have to pay the consequences)
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To: Kaslin

They didn’t say where he went while he was there...Just that he has gone there...


7 posted on 06/13/2016 5:17:27 PM PDT by JBW1949 (I'm really PC....PATRIOTICALLY CORRECT!!!!)
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To: Paladin2

But you have to let evil into you.


8 posted on 06/13/2016 5:19:15 PM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (Embrace the Lion of Judah and He will roar for you and teach you to roar too. See my page.)
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To: BenLurkin

Yup, this guy was ideologically pumped


9 posted on 06/13/2016 5:20:00 PM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (Embrace the Lion of Judah and He will roar for you and teach you to roar too. See my page.)
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To: JBW1949

Haven’t more victims died in the hospital?


10 posted on 06/13/2016 5:20:59 PM PDT by Mmogamer (I refudiate the lamestream media, leftists and their prevaricutions.)
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To: Kaslin
Krauthammer just stated that he feels Hillary would be tougher on foreign policy because of her husband being tough or something like that and call trump a hypocrite for supporting Clinton at that time.... I'm paraphrasing of course. Boy the media sure does have their long knives out for trump! He can't seem to get a break no matter how spectacular he's speeches are or how YUGE his rallies are... Be ready folks the next coming months are literally going to sicken us to the very core!!! Have plenty of Prozac and liquor on hand to numb the brain!
11 posted on 06/13/2016 5:22:38 PM PDT by RoseofTexas (T)
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To: Kaslin

This guy was investigated twice for ties to known jihadists. He was hooked up with the global muzzie terrorist hive.


12 posted on 06/13/2016 5:23:37 PM PDT by circlecity
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To: RoseofTexas

Kraut is a RINO/Dem. Mostly, he is a Unipart.


13 posted on 06/13/2016 5:26:05 PM PDT by combat_boots (The Lion of Judah cometh. Hallelujah. Gloria Patri, Filio et Spiritui Sancto!)
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To: Kaslin

If he was homegrown, then we have to be concerned about all muslims, homegrown and immigrant. The quran does enjoin all muslims to kill unbelievers. The quran commands us all, 91 times, to follow the example of the perfect man, Muhammed: killer, war criminal, terrorist, rapist, looter, pedophile, all around monster.


14 posted on 06/13/2016 5:26:33 PM PDT by all the best
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To: Kaslin

What is going on -— is Wahhabi sect Sunni. Katherine Herrige tonight confirmed that Omar was inspire by wahhabi— anwar al awlaki. ( credit to obama for killing that scum suck with a DRONE in Yemen)!
Just like the the Saudi state supported Sunni Wahabbi attackers on 911 and Ft Hood. All Wahhabi sect Sunnis should be OUT OF HERE!!. The answer is GET THEM OUT OF HERE! It is so simple. I am telling you how to do it. LIE DETECTORS!! IT beats slaughter on AMERICANS and once we do that the Wahhabis will FLEE!! GET TOUGH OR GET DEAD. Quiclly please.


15 posted on 06/13/2016 5:37:45 PM PDT by WENDLE (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lgIhGgrhQeE)
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To: Kaslin

The FBI was instructed by the impostor and chief to deal with islamic terrorism threw a PC looking glass. He is also responsible for this crime


16 posted on 06/13/2016 6:20:49 PM PDT by ronnie raygun
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To: Paladin2

Yep. All you need is a Koran.


17 posted on 06/13/2016 7:10:14 PM PDT by A_perfect_lady
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To: Paladin2

Why was Sharia law even ALLOWED in the “US backed constitution” of IRAQ, of all places??? After WWII, Japan was ORDERED to renounce war AND end a 2500 year old tradition of Emperor worship! Turned out very well for Japan, but Iraq begat ISIS......


18 posted on 06/13/2016 11:39:07 PM PDT by Frank_2001
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To: Kaslin

When Trump mentioned the father’s background, it was the first I had heard of it - MSM interviews allowed him to come across as a grief-stricken patriot....


19 posted on 06/14/2016 2:36:40 AM PDT by trebb (Where in the the hell has my country gone?)
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To: Paladin2

Right.


20 posted on 06/14/2016 9:08:32 AM PDT by Patriotic1 (Dic mihi solum facta, domina - Just the facts, ma'am)
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