(10-06-2017, 06:45 PM)TJBender Wrote:

(10-06-2017, 12:59 AM)Jaguarmeister Wrote: Based on what's out there right now, it's looking to me like he probably was radicalized by Islamic terrorists at some point during the past few years and probably had help either carrying out his deed or at the very least with the logistics of it.

Why Islamic terrorists? Is it not entirely plausible that a 64-year-old white man could have been radicalized by white supremacists? Or by Neo-Nazis? Or even by far right fringe religious groups that don't pray to Allah? Maybe even moreso than the notion that he'd suddenly find himself called to jihad?

To be perfectly honest, I fully expect that the attack was arranged and/or carried out by a domestic group not linked to Islam in the slightest, but by the time the "investigation" is over, Mustafa al-Paddaq will have converted to Islam by his Asian girlfriend five years ago during a trip to Afghanistan that happened during the family reunion he sent a body double to.

No. It's not. If he was radicalized by neo-Nazis or white supremacists, why in the world would he attack a Country music fest where the overwhelming majority of the attendees were white heterosexuals? That would be like an Islamic terrorist attacking a mosque. It makes no sense. If it was a rap, R&B or even a pop concert, you might be onto something, but the target here rules out any racial motives, since the shooter was white as well. I believe he was just some crazy guy who hated people in general.

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