A Fox exclusive has revealed the violent, chilling Facebook posts of Omar Mateen before he went on his shooting spree; among them:
“I pledge my alliance to (ISIS leader) abu bakr al Baghdadi..may Allah accept me,” Mateen wrote in one post early Sunday morning. “The real muslims will never accept the filthy ways of the west” …“You kill innocent women and children by doing us airstrikes..now taste the Islamic state vengeance.”
We’ll keep on hearing the tired excuses that Mateen was mentally ill, that the West is provoking Muslims, that it’s the Christian Right’s fault, and every other imaginable hokum to distract Westerners from the real problem: Islamic jihad, which is rooted in 1,400 years of bloody conquest. The barbaric human rights abuses and persecution of minorities in Islamic states have nothing to do with the West, nor does the jihadist goal to obliterate Israel, but they have everything to do with the jihadist imperative to murder infidels and apostates.
Based on a mounting number of reports, Mateen had a history of mental disturbances, but when such disturbance is combined with violent jihadist doctrine — which comes with promises of eternal rewards in paradise for committing murder to advance the Sharia — the West is ever more in danger from this lethal brew. In our culture, mental disturbance gets treated. In jihadist culture, it can be warped further to turn that individual into a violent jihadist. The Islamic State is on a recruiting mission to expand and conquer, and they’ll take anyone.
“Orlando Terrorist’s Chilling Facebook Posts From Inside Club Revealed”, by Malia Zimmerman,
Fox News, June 15, 2016:
EXCLUSIVE: In the hours after he blasted his way into an Orlando gay nightclub, and with his victims lying dead or wounded around him, Omar Mateen took to Facebook to pledge his loyalty to ISIS and threaten more attacks on the civilized world, a key lawmaker privy to the gunman’s posts told FoxNews.com Wednesday.
Mateen, who killed 49 people and wounded 53 inside Pulse early Sunday, died when a SWAT team stormed the club. But in the roughly four hours between his initial rampage and his death, the 29-year-old radicalized Muslim broadcast his twisted message of hate on social media, according to Senate Homeland Security Chairman Ron Johnson, R-Wisc.
“I pledge my alliance to (ISIS leader) abu bakr al Baghdadi..may Allah accept me,” Mateen wrote in one post early Sunday morning. “The real muslims will never accept the filthy ways of the west” …“You kill innocent women and children by doing us airstrikes..now taste the Islamic state vengeance.”
Mateen’s social media accounts were taken down before they could be widely viewed by the public, but Johnson’s committee investigators have uncovered some or all of them. The senator has also written a letter to Facebook executives expressing concern about Mateen’s postings and asking for more information on his activities.
“It is my understanding that Omar Mateen used Facebook before and during the attack to search for and post terrorism-related content,” read Johnson’s letter. “According to information obtained by my staff, five Facebook accounts were apparently associated with Omar Mateen.”
The posts uncovered by Johnson’s committee shed light on Mateen’s actions in the hours that followed his 2 a.m. raid on the nightclub. Mateen, armed with an assault rifle and a handgun, shot his way past an off-duty cop and sprayed bullets throughout the club, which was packed with more than 300 revelers when he arrived. Some escaped, many died or were wounded and scores more waited out the horrific ordeal, knowing each moment could be their last.
As survivors cowered in darkened rooms, praying and texting police and relatives, Mateen accessed his Facebook account to search for media reports, using search words such as “Pulse Orlando” and “Shooting.” An FBI source told FoxNews.com he also made 16 phone calls from inside the club after the bloody spree began. Investigators are tracking down each of the recipients of those calls.
Mateen proclaimed his hatred for Westerners in one Facebook post uncovered by Johnson’s committee.
“America and Russia stop bombing the Islamic state,” Mateen wrote.
In his final post, Mateen made an ominous prediction.
“In the next few days you will see attacks from the Islamic state in the usa.”
