It’s been almost two years since the mass shooting at a night club Pulse in Orlando, Florida, which killed 49 people — is widely considered an act of aggression against the LGBT club customers and “certainly homophobic-motivated crimes of hate”. There is now convincing evidence that the shooter did not intend to speak out against LGBT people.
In fact, he supposedly had no idea that the Pulse was a gay club, but just Googled “Orlando night clubs” after that security to its original purpose, a large shopping complex, was too high, according to ClickOrlando.com.
This evidence dramatically changes the narrative of mass execution, and politicians and individuals of different political colour have positioned it as an anti-LGBT crimes of hate. Instead, a new study has shown, Pulse night shoot was intended as revenge for the us anti-terrorism policies abroad.
There were evidence in the trial of the wife of the shooter, Nur Salman, who is the Federal government charged with aiding and abetting and obstruction of justice. Federal prosecutors claimed that Salman helped her husband plan and organize the attack. She was acquitted by a jury last Friday, a rare case, where most defendants charged terror to confess guilt, and the average detection rate in such cases is above 90 percent.
The motive of the gunman was apparently a retaliation for United States bombing campaign against ISIL targets in the middle East. He swore allegiance to ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, and while the impetus of the shooting posted to Facebook, “You are killing innocent women and children in US air strikes. … Now taste the “Islamic state” revenge”. In his last post he wrote, “in the coming days you will see from the attacks of the “Islamic state” in the United States.”
Salman’s lawyers presented evidence that far from the arrows, she became a victim of violence of her husband, including frequent beatings and sexual violence.
Pulse night shooting was the deadliest attack on LGBT people in American history, and liberals and conservatives, including then-presidential candidate Donald trump took to the shooting were based on a victims sexual orientation and gender identity. Trump and other Republicans tried to use their response to the shooting, to argue that they were true Pro-LGBT advocates because of their support of immigration restrictions aimed at Muslims.
In his speech on 13 June, the day after the shooting, trump said, “It’s a very dark moment in American history. One of the radical Islamic terrorists in a night club, not only because he wanted to kill Americans, but in order to execute gays and lesbians because of their sexual orientation.” The next day at North Carolina rally, trump said, “We want to live in a country where gay and lesbian Americans and all Americans safe from radical Islam, which wants to kill and kill gays and they enslave women.”
During his speech trump at the Republican National Convention, where he gave his consent to the presidential nomination from his party, he said, “just a few weeks ago, in Orlando, Florida, 49 great Americans were brutally killed by Islamic terrorists. This time terrorists of the LGBT community. Nothing good. And we’re going to stop it. As your President, I will do everything in my power to protect our LGBT citizens from violence and the yoke of the hated foreign ideology”.
But the practice shows the opposite. The shooter is not the goal of LGBT people — he didn’t even notice that Pulse was in a gay-oriented nightclub, asking the security guard at the club where all the women were just before he started shooting.
After the mass shooting, observers, including journalists, often look for a motive, sometimes even before the first victims were identified. But shooting a Pulse proves that the original story about the motives of mass shooters are often wrong — and these stories can be much more powerful than the truth.
Sourse: vox.com
