L8erToots wrote:
You're right - it doesn't fit the narrative, but not in the way you think and maybe we're missing the boat here and not seeing the frightening t***h, which is we need to pay closer attention to who and what our kids are turning to, or being exposed to, when they are in crisis.
Here are some of the facts I uncovered from his family member's Facebook pages and his before they took down his Facebook page:
1. They all (he, his mother and brother) fully assimilated into "American culture" once they got here (although the mother still appears to have friends (maybe family) from Turkey that wear a head scarf (98% of Turks are Muslim).
2. Mother married a white, Christian conservative who saw her sons as his own (always referred to them as his sons, not step-sons).
3. Where he lived is on an island with a big military community (Naval Air base) and his older brother joined the Navy after high school (his step-father's brother is/was also Navy). Local posters are quick to point out that they DO NOT identify with "Liberal Seattle" or "liberal Washington".
4. The 3 of them have many Hispanic friends and appear to want to be associated with Hispanics and not Turks (if you click on his older brother's "real name Tag" in Facebook it takes you to his profile where his profile name is a Hispanic name. He posted a selfie of himself titled "So this is what a Syrian refugee looks like...my parents have a lot of explaining to do" and a friend commented "you post this here on FB but you were pretty upset when the guy called you that in the bar"...seems he doesn't want to be associated with ANY middle eastern country, because in HIS mind he is an American Navy veteran.
5. The shooter was in ROTC in high school and was heavily into gaming (Call of Duty) and someone (a girl) who's mother and brother worked with him said that he attended Christian church his entire life here in the U.S. Strangely enough, this girl's father is a childhood friend of someone I and my family and friends know VERY well (just kind of makes me believe her opinion more than what the MSM is reporting).
6. This same girl who's family personally knew him, who has mutual friends that went to high school with him, is saying that something happened to him (mentally) around the time he was 17 - he started losing friends because of his behavior - he had difficulty socializing with girls (comments like "All the girls I know seem to be on their period (read:b***hy) at the same time!") By 18-19 he started having conflicts (that turned physical) with his step-dad (over what, who knows?).
So, what's my point? My point is that we keep saying "The immigrant Muslims aren't assimilating once they're here", because we somehow think that no non-Muslim "American" could become radicalized - but here we have someone who's family DID assimilate, big time. If it DOES turn out that somehow he was quickly radicalized, then we're in WAY bigger trouble than we thought, because then ANYONE's American kid could be and maybe THAT is why it's not getting much coverage in the MSM, because how frightening would THAT be?
Here's the info we're not getting that I want to know:
1. At what age did he immigrate here? Did he get exposed to radical Islam by trying to "get in touch" with his heritage (there was a recent pic of him drinking Turkish coffee)?
2. What's the backstory on his biological father - is he still alive, is he in Turkey, is he a radical Muslim...WHY is there no mention or info on HIM? If alive, did his son reach out to him?
If we're going to need to protect ALL of our kids from this evil, we need to know the answers to HOW it's happening.
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Very true, but we'll never get it from the MSM.