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If you think I've left you with an unanswered question herein, then PM me ..
.. But here are some relevant links to read at your leisure:
Orlando Shooter Omar Mateen Was Gay, Former Classmate Says
Orlando Shooting: Gunman Omar Mateen Was A Closet Homosexual, Say Friends -- As Wife Faces Charges After 'Helping Him Scope Out Attack'
Drag Queen: Anti-Gay Terrorist Omar Mateen Was My Friend
What Has The Orlando Gunman's Father Said
Mir Seddique, Omar Mateen's Father: 5 Fast Facts You Need To Know
In summary:
1. The Orlando shooter, Omar Mateen, was likely either bisexual or homosexual, not publicly open, about which he struggled.
2. The adherents of fundamentalist sects of Islam (like those of Judaism and Christianity) strictly view their old religious texts literally, all such texts state homosexuality is a sin punishable by death.
3. Fundamentalist religion praises and encourages martyrs.
4. Omar Mateen's father, Seddique Mateen, is a Taliban-supporting Islam fundamentalist who now publicly avows that God will punish homosexuals and privately most likely said worse to his son.
5. Omar Mateen appears to have suffered from bipolar disorder, and a bipolar sufferer when swinging back up from depression to mania is at their greatest risk for suicide.
6. Like with the San Bernardino tragedy, the shooter's significant other (Mateen's wife) played a major fundamentalist Islam instigating role in the Orlando radical tragedy.
Put all this together, and the terrible Orlando tragedy is really not all that surprising.
Whether he used an assault rifle (as he did), or C4 strapped to his body, or C4 in a lavishly gift-wrapped box set on a table detonated during his announcement from the microphone, or a van of fertilizer parked out front, or nitroglycerin or other easily made .. or today's backpack-sized nuclear device .. killing many, many more .. the stage was set and the play unstoppable.
So a man who suffered from bipolar disorder, bi/homo -sexuality, an opinionated father and wife, and fundamentalist Islam .. was doomed.
What can be done?
There's currently no cure for bipolar disorder, though symptoms can be relieved albeit the drugs have very unpleasant side effects.
And, science will continue to advance weaponry and the free market will make it available to anyone who wants it.
And, we can't outlaw religion.
But, we can change attitudes, one courageous presentation at a time.
Though only a relatively small number of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam (the three social religions) adherents say homosexuality is a sin and those exhibiting related behavior should die, as we keep learning, it only takes one such person in combination with other factors to create a tragedy.
The ancient attitude toward homosexuality in fundamentalist religion sects is in direct defiance of what we scientifically know today: it's not "wrong" to be homosexual, and homosexual behavior is normal for homosexuals. Homosexuality is not a choice -- it's etiology is epigenetic, inculcated during gestation, and the homosexual sex drive is normal for those less than 6% of the population so exhibiting the condition of homo/bi -sexuality via behavior.
And though liberals are relieved that science has backed their statement that "you're born with it" .. they aren't telling the whole accurate-label truth about what homosexuality truly is.
If they did tell the whole truth, that would be the greatest weapon against ancient religious dogma, a weapon for change for the better.
But, liberals don't. They don't tell the whole truth about what homosexuality truly is. And, they censor those who try to speak the scientific truth based name we commonly use today for what homosexuality truly is.
And thus bullying continues .. and persecution continues .. and tragedies continue ... and sympathy and understanding and help that would make a great positive difference, goes sadly lacking.
To paraphrase Christianity's new testament, you will know the truth -- and tell the truth -- and the truth will set you free. Good advice for liberals who are too afraid they will lose some political clout if they tell the truth here.
To all those liberals who want to continue to censor the truth about what homosexuality truly is, and to punish those who tell the truth, Orlando is partially on you.
A word to the wise.
.. But here are some relevant links to read at your leisure:
Orlando Shooter Omar Mateen Was Gay, Former Classmate Says
Orlando Shooting: Gunman Omar Mateen Was A Closet Homosexual, Say Friends -- As Wife Faces Charges After 'Helping Him Scope Out Attack'
Drag Queen: Anti-Gay Terrorist Omar Mateen Was My Friend
What Has The Orlando Gunman's Father Said
Mir Seddique, Omar Mateen's Father: 5 Fast Facts You Need To Know
In summary:
1. The Orlando shooter, Omar Mateen, was likely either bisexual or homosexual, not publicly open, about which he struggled.
2. The adherents of fundamentalist sects of Islam (like those of Judaism and Christianity) strictly view their old religious texts literally, all such texts state homosexuality is a sin punishable by death.
3. Fundamentalist religion praises and encourages martyrs.
4. Omar Mateen's father, Seddique Mateen, is a Taliban-supporting Islam fundamentalist who now publicly avows that God will punish homosexuals and privately most likely said worse to his son.
5. Omar Mateen appears to have suffered from bipolar disorder, and a bipolar sufferer when swinging back up from depression to mania is at their greatest risk for suicide.
6. Like with the San Bernardino tragedy, the shooter's significant other (Mateen's wife) played a major fundamentalist Islam instigating role in the Orlando radical tragedy.
Put all this together, and the terrible Orlando tragedy is really not all that surprising.
Whether he used an assault rifle (as he did), or C4 strapped to his body, or C4 in a lavishly gift-wrapped box set on a table detonated during his announcement from the microphone, or a van of fertilizer parked out front, or nitroglycerin or other easily made .. or today's backpack-sized nuclear device .. killing many, many more .. the stage was set and the play unstoppable.
So a man who suffered from bipolar disorder, bi/homo -sexuality, an opinionated father and wife, and fundamentalist Islam .. was doomed.
What can be done?
There's currently no cure for bipolar disorder, though symptoms can be relieved albeit the drugs have very unpleasant side effects.
And, science will continue to advance weaponry and the free market will make it available to anyone who wants it.
And, we can't outlaw religion.
But, we can change attitudes, one courageous presentation at a time.
Though only a relatively small number of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam (the three social religions) adherents say homosexuality is a sin and those exhibiting related behavior should die, as we keep learning, it only takes one such person in combination with other factors to create a tragedy.
The ancient attitude toward homosexuality in fundamentalist religion sects is in direct defiance of what we scientifically know today: it's not "wrong" to be homosexual, and homosexual behavior is normal for homosexuals. Homosexuality is not a choice -- it's etiology is epigenetic, inculcated during gestation, and the homosexual sex drive is normal for those less than 6% of the population so exhibiting the condition of homo/bi -sexuality via behavior.
And though liberals are relieved that science has backed their statement that "you're born with it" .. they aren't telling the whole accurate-label truth about what homosexuality truly is.
If they did tell the whole truth, that would be the greatest weapon against ancient religious dogma, a weapon for change for the better.
But, liberals don't. They don't tell the whole truth about what homosexuality truly is. And, they censor those who try to speak the scientific truth based name we commonly use today for what homosexuality truly is.
And thus bullying continues .. and persecution continues .. and tragedies continue ... and sympathy and understanding and help that would make a great positive difference, goes sadly lacking.
To paraphrase Christianity's new testament, you will know the truth -- and tell the truth -- and the truth will set you free. Good advice for liberals who are too afraid they will lose some political clout if they tell the truth here.
To all those liberals who want to continue to censor the truth about what homosexuality truly is, and to punish those who tell the truth, Orlando is partially on you.
A word to the wise.