Mr Hammer wrote on Dec 9
th, 2016 at 1:19pm:
mothra wrote on Dec 9
th, 2016 at 1:19pm:
Postmodern Trendoid III wrote on Dec 9
th, 2016 at 1:14pm:
The 50 dead gays killed in a nightclub now invalidates the op.
That was committed by a Muslim but it was not related to Islam.
It was done by a frustrated gay guy.
Sexual orientation[edit]
People who knew Mateen have speculated that he might have been gay or bisexual. A male friend of his from 2006, when the two were in police academy together, said that Mateen went to gay clubs with him and that Mateen once expressed an interest in dating him. Club-goers also recalled Mateen dancing with another man.[64][65] One classmate, who asked not to be identified by name, said Mateen asked him if he was gay.[66][67] The FBI has investigated many of these claims and has not found reasonable evidence to establish that he was gay.[68]
After the shooting, the Orlando Sentinel and The Palm Beach Post reported that at least five regular customers at the Pulse nightclub had seen Mateen visit the venue on at least a dozen occasions. Sometimes Mateen drank in a corner by himself "and other times he would get so drunk he was loud and belligerent."[19][66] A witness, who recognized Mateen outside the club an hour before the shootings, told investigators that Mateen had been messaging him for about a year using a gay dating app called Jack'd. He gave his phone to the FBI for analysis, along with his login details for the application.[69] A third witness said that Mateen had tried to pick up men at the nightclub.[70] Dozens of other witnesses, however told the Tampa Bay Times that they had never seen Mateen at the nightclub.[8] A spokesperson for Barbara Poma, the owner of the Pulse nightclub, called the statement that Mateen had been a regular patron "untrue and totally ridiculous".[71]
Mateen's father Seddique denied that his son was closeted, saying, "If he was gay, why would he do something like this?"[67] Two days later, after multiple reports questioned whether Mateen was homosexual, Mateen's father said, "I didn't see any of it and I don't believe that was the case."[72] However, during an interview with the Brazilian television station SBT Brazil, Mateen's ex-wife claimed that his father called him gay while in her presence.[73][74] Following the shooting, Mateen's father stated, in an online video in his native language, Dari: "In this month of Ramadan, the gay and lesbian issue is something that God will punish", though "the servants of God shouldn't have anything to do with it."[75]
The Wall Street Journal reported Mateen's ex-wife as saying that "[he] did feel strongly about homosexuality".[67] When asked if Mateen was gay, his ex-wife said she "didn't know" and recalled that he had confessed to going to nightclubs.[64][65][76] Gawker reported that his ex-wife's fiance, Marco Dias, told Brazilian media in Portuguese that she had told him that Mateen had "gay tendencies".[77] He also added that his family and others believed he was gay, and that "the FBI asked her not to tell this to the American media".[73][74]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Omar_Mateen