Quote:If you actually read the article instead of stopping two and a half sentences in, you'll note that his conversion to Islam was hardly the sincere decision of a clear mind, and that the true Muslim inmates were far less than happy about him slapping his name onto their religion, making him into cannon fodder for the right wing to throw out as further "proof" that Islam is the enemy of civilization and must be expelled from the western hemisphere. Attributing the Aurora murders to radical Islam is about as valid as attributing the Charleston shootings to a flag.

 

So does that mean that he converted to Islam to hide the "fact" that he is a "White Christian Extremist"?  The debate with The Anchor Man had to do with stereotypes, and I certainly claimed that I did stereotype the shooter in Chattanooga.  A guy named "Muhammed" that attacks military targets is more likely than not an Islamic Extremist Terrorist.

 

A guy named James Holmes that attacks random people in a "gun free zone" does not fit any known profile of a "Christian Extremist" (I don't know if there has ever been an attack by someone that can be labeled that).  He converted to Islam in order to justify what he had done.  Why is that?  From the article "He has brainwashed himself into believing that he was on his own personal jihad and that his victims were infidels
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