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Mosby

(16,311 posts) Sun Jul 19, 2015, 12:22 AM Jul 2015

Tennessee shooter was ‘upset’ by wars in Gaza, Syria

Muhammad Youssuf Abdulazeez, the Kuwaiti-born US citizen who shot and killed five marines at two military sites in Chattanooga, Tennessee before being killed by police last week, was “upset” by Israel’s Operation Protective Edge, according to a friend of his who was anonymously interviewed by Reuters on Saturday.

The friend showed the news agency a text message sent to him by Abdulazeez with a link to a long Islamic verse containing the words: “Whosoever shows enmity to a friend of Mine, then I have declared war against him.”

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Abdulazeez's friends said he occasionally smoked marijuana and drank alcohol, and struggled to reconcile that with his faith in Islam. At one point, in 2012 or 2013, he received therapy for drugs and alcohol use, they said.

"He used it to de-stress, when things were difficult at home, or whatever," the first friend said, adding that tensions between Abdulazeez and his Palestinian parents had also upset him. His parents nearly got divorced in 2009, according to court records.

http://www.timesofisrael.com/tennessee-shooter-was-upset-by-2014-israel-gaza-war/

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"Palestinian" is an interest twist, if true. Igel Jul 2015 #2

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2. "Palestinian" is an interest twist, if true.

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Sun Jul 19, 2015, 11:24 AM

Jul 2015

Lots of Jordanians are Palestinians; and Kuwait had a Palestinian refugee/immigrant population, as well. So it's plausible.

What's intriguing is the sheer number of people who are really struggling to show empathy for the guy and almost make him a sympathetic character. Depressed, unemployed, drugs, women problems, torn by what he perceived as happening to "his" people and lashing out in pain to kill representatives of some collective enemy as part of a self-imagined war. He killed US military. But he's "brown" and self-avowedly Muslim.

Then there's dork Roof. Depressed, unemployed, drugs, women problems, torn by what he perceived as happening to "his" people and lashing out in pain to kill representatives of some collective enemy as part of a self-imagined war. He killed AfAms. And he's white and presumably considered himself Xian.

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