Dhabaal
Part time -Devils Advocate Full time- Anarchist
Following the news about Ali Artan stabbings in Ohio as troubling as this is, the media reaction to it displays a final mutation in the war on terror.
The final mutation of the war on terror is the new solo terrorist, terrorism in the smallest possible footprint—not the cell, but the single autonomous person: the self-motivating disconnected terrorism
A shooting in California and had the names of the shooters been John Smith and Simon Everett we would know the script-- bad day at work, stress, etc. Unfortunately the names look Islamic. And while John and Simon can have a bad day at work and go around shooting people, this is not so if your name is Ali ,Tashfeen Malik or Syed, with names like that you have links to ISIS and the Islamic Council for America has to make statements on behalf of the American Muslim community, (no one else does this, only Muslims orgs have to apologize for every single Muslim).
And this isolated lone act gives justification for the war campaign against Muslim countries and for Trump to make more Hitler like suggestions of banning Muslims because of these attack.
https://www.statista.com/statistics/476456/mass-shootings-in-the-us-by-shooter-s-race/
The final mutation of the war on terror is the new solo terrorist, terrorism in the smallest possible footprint—not the cell, but the single autonomous person: the self-motivating disconnected terrorism
A shooting in California and had the names of the shooters been John Smith and Simon Everett we would know the script-- bad day at work, stress, etc. Unfortunately the names look Islamic. And while John and Simon can have a bad day at work and go around shooting people, this is not so if your name is Ali ,Tashfeen Malik or Syed, with names like that you have links to ISIS and the Islamic Council for America has to make statements on behalf of the American Muslim community, (no one else does this, only Muslims orgs have to apologize for every single Muslim).
And this isolated lone act gives justification for the war campaign against Muslim countries and for Trump to make more Hitler like suggestions of banning Muslims because of these attack.
https://www.statista.com/statistics/476456/mass-shootings-in-the-us-by-shooter-s-race/
White men have been responsible for about 63 percent of mass shootings in that span, despite comprising a far smaller portion of the total population. And while the motives for mass murder vary from perpetrator to perpetrator, since the Columbine school shooting in 1999, there has been a remarkable consistency—if not uniformity—in the age, gender, and race of the people who carry out these egregious crimes.