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Orlando Gunman Was Gay, Says Former Police-Academy Classmate
NY Magazine ^ | June 14, 2016 | Claire Landsbaum

Posted on 06/14/2016 5:40:20 AM PDT by Enchante

When Omar Mateen — a 29-year-old security guard — opened fire at Pulse nightclub in Orlando on Sunday, killing 49 people and wounding 53, it wasn't his first time at the club. In fact, according to at least four regular patrons, Mateen had visited the club several times before, and one — Chris Callen, a drag queen who performs at Pulse under the name Kristina McLaughlin — said Mateen had been going there "for at least three years."

Additional reports suggest Mateen had created profiles on multiple gay-dating apps: Grindr, Jack'd, and Adam for Adam, to name a few. And a former police-academy classmate of Mateen's said he believed Mateen was gay and had asked him out on a date. "We went to a few gay bars with him, and I was not out at the time, so I declined his offer," the classmate told the Palm Beach Post. He went on, "He just wanted to fit in and no one liked him. He was always socially awkward."

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Front Page News; News/Current Events; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: closetcase; isis; islam; jihad; mateengay; omarmateen; orlando; orlandoterrorattack; religionofpeace; repressedhomosexual; wot
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more info to suggest Orlando shooter was some kind of self-hating gay/bisexual

but it is the combo with Islam that made this situation nuclear.... without Islam it the self-hatred would have remained inward, or at most a murder-suicide with a lover but not this mass murder motivated by ISLAM

1 posted on 06/14/2016 5:40:20 AM PDT by Enchante
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Except that he also looked into attacking a theme park.

So the self hating muslimhomo theory sinks.


2 posted on 06/14/2016 5:43:28 AM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
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To: Enchante

I wonder if ISIS is going to back down a little from their high praise of him as a mighty soldier of the American Caliph? I can almost here the “Oops!” coming out of Raghead central.


3 posted on 06/14/2016 5:46:37 AM PDT by Pilgrim's Progress (http://www.baptistbiblebelievers.com/BYTOPICS/tabid/335/Default.aspx D)
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OK, so the new theme song will be he was a self-hating gay who was forced to kill because of Republican and Christian hatred. Got it.

What will be ignored, of course, is Islam walks hand and hand with homosexuality. Always has, always will. Dancing boys, anyone??


4 posted on 06/14/2016 5:46:43 AM PDT by miss marmelstein (Richard the Third: With my own people alone I should like to drive away the Muslims)
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To: BenLurkin

There’s a lot of homosexual employees at Disneyland.


5 posted on 06/14/2016 5:47:53 AM PDT by Pilgrim's Progress (http://www.baptistbiblebelievers.com/BYTOPICS/tabid/335/Default.aspx D)
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To: Enchante

Visiting or casing?


6 posted on 06/14/2016 5:48:17 AM PDT by Buckeye McFrog
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"In Orlando, the Los Angeles Times reported that Mateen attended the Pulse nightclub possibly as many as a dozen times before the rampage. Kevin West said he had messaged Mateen back and forth over a year’s time on the gay dating app Jack’d but never met him until he saw Mateen crossing the street about 1 a.m. Sunday. “He walked directly past me. I said, ‘Hey,’ and he turned and said, ‘Hey,’” and nodded his head, West said. “I could tell by the eyes.”

Just the mere idea that, after exchanging messages for a freaking year, West met the shooter the very first time exactly before the massacre, is incredulous.

7 posted on 06/14/2016 5:48:18 AM PDT by StAnDeliver (PS - Vote Trump. Vote Coal.)
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To: Enchante

In politically incorrect times, the connection between latent/suppressed homosexuality and mass murder was often made. The Left may drag out this theory once again to “explain” the Orlando massacre and to “absolve” Islamism as a motive.


8 posted on 06/14/2016 5:49:02 AM PDT by TTFlyer
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“Mateen had created profiles on multiple gay-dating apps: Grindr, Jack’d, and Adam for Adam, to name a few.”

Notice the names chosen for the ‘gay-dating apps’ ~ these people are sickos; the only ones possibly sicker are Moslems.


9 posted on 06/14/2016 5:50:54 AM PDT by heterosupremacist ("Resistance to tyrants is obedience to God." Thomas Jefferson)
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To: BenLurkin

except he didn’t attack a theme park he attacked the gay club


10 posted on 06/14/2016 5:51:27 AM PDT by Enchante (No lipstick on the PIAPS!! #NeverSHRILLARY)
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To: Buckeye McFrog

could just be casing for the attack, but there are now several different interviews citing gay activities going back years, even back to his student days


11 posted on 06/14/2016 5:53:21 AM PDT by Enchante (No lipstick on the PIAPS!! #NeverSHRILLARY)
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To: Enchante

And the FBI wanted to cover up this fact based on what his ex-wife said.


12 posted on 06/14/2016 5:54:09 AM PDT by Roman_War_Criminal (God is a racist! Get over it snowflakes. Deuteronomy 7:6-8; Romans 9:13-15)
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Easier target. Like shooting fish in a barrel.

Muslims always go after the most defenseless people possible.


13 posted on 06/14/2016 5:56:00 AM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
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To: Enchante

Would not be a shock as homosexual activity is quite prevalent in the Muslim world (despite Islam’s open condemnation of it)


15 posted on 06/14/2016 5:57:20 AM PDT by Buckeye McFrog
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To: Enchante

Evidently banging the boys is big in the old country - looks like he’d have been better off if he returned to his roots:

http://www.sfgate.com/opinion/brinkley/article/Afghanistan-s-dirty-little-secret-3176762.php

But the real lesson here is whatever the gripe, the default position for too many of these jerks inundated in Islamic hatred is to take out as many infidels as possible.


16 posted on 06/14/2016 5:57:35 AM PDT by Stosh
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To: Enchante

self hating gay bisexual, you mean Obama?


17 posted on 06/14/2016 5:58:20 AM PDT by Typical_Whitey (Hey Obama Guns don't kill people, Radical Muslims kill people.)
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To: Pilgrim's Progress

Whats to back down from?

Daddy and all the uncles raped him repeatedly as a child, They are a good muslem family. The difference in Islamic upbringing where young boys are used as sex toys and societal norms of even the western gay culture in southern Florida were clearly incompatible with his mental process.

His only recourse? Go out in a blaze of Islamic glory to secure my 100 virgins in paradise !!

Dad is so proud of me !!


18 posted on 06/14/2016 6:01:30 AM PDT by Delta 21 (Patiently waiting for the jack booted kick at my door.)
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To: Stosh

Muslims are the most sexually maladjusted people on the planet.


19 posted on 06/14/2016 6:02:34 AM PDT by Buckeye McFrog
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To: Enchante

I’m not ready to buy the “he was gay” meme. It seems way too much like a push by the media to divert attention from his islamist motives and paint this as a hate crime which can be solved by banning guns.


20 posted on 06/14/2016 6:02:35 AM PDT by circlecity
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