Orlando Sentinel: Killer visited club dozen times before massacre

BBC: Omar Mateen ‘was trying to pick up men’

LA Times: Orlando gunman had used gay dating app and visited LGBT nightclub on other occasions, witnesses say

NYP: He Was Gay

UPDATE July 17, 2016: Nice, France Jihadi Killer was Bisexual

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Why a Gay Muslim Becomes Jihadi

In Islam, homosexuality is a sin, but….

“Qur'an guarantees forgiveness for every sin if one is slain in the way of Allah….”

“The shedding of one’s own blood while killing the enemies of Allah wipes away sins”

“There is a redemptive aspect to jihad which is crucial to understanding its development.”

“Jihad as Penance”

TM: Orlando killer Omar Mateen's dad insists his son was NOT gay  -- Based on the redemptive nature of jihad, within Islam, this statement becomes ‘true’ at the moment Mateen was killed ‘fighting for Allah’.

NYT June 7, 2016: Thanks to Emergence of ISIS Caliphate, FBI now working 100s of cases of Sudden Jihad Syndrome Coast to Coast

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Flashback, 1786—Thomas Jefferson and John Adams Meet Muslim Ambassador from Barbary Coast

We took the liberty to make some inquiries concerning the Grounds of their pretentions to make war upon Nations who had done them no Injury, and observed that we considered all mankind as our friends who had done us no wrong, nor had given us any provocation.

The Ambassador answered us that it was founded on the Laws of their Prophet, that it was written in their Koran, that all nations who should not have acknowledged their authority were sinners, that it was their right and duty to make war upon them wherever they could be found, and to make slaves of all they could take as Prisoners, and that every Musselman who should be slain in battle was sure to go to Paradise.

--Thomas Jefferson and John Adams describe meeting with Ambassador of Tripoli (now Libya), March 28, 1786

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