Yeah, sounds like it. But, as you say, they may be trying to quash the real motivation. It’s also possible that he set out to do this because he felt bullied and then threw in the muzzard cry.
Poor Shep probably cried until his mascara was all down his face when he found out it was not a right-wing ethnic German. So glad I stopped watching Faux News.
Yeah I’m leaning in this direction as well. His bullying coming from ethnic Turks who were German citizens for example and he didn’t fit it as a “real German”. So his yelling “I am German” etc. The arabic Allahu Akhbar shouting is simply part of the mix of his heritage. The indiscriminate shooting starting at an American icon of fast food McDonalds has to figure in somewhere in some negative perceptions of the US as blurred as they might be.
Ultimately he is shooting presumably in his mind and getting back at native Germans, whoever they might be.
Now to Sheppy’s cluster%^$k comments. The guy just can’t help himself.