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CuriousLurker7/24/2016 10:21:42 am PDT

re: #511 CuriousLurker

FWIW, he got into an argument with the woman and none of the articles I read mentioned him screaming “Allahu Akbar” or anything like that (◔_◔), nor is any motive yet known. Still, he’s Syrian so he’ll be a terrorist no matter what for some.

Speaking of terrorism, there’s a pretty good article at the NYT Times about labels:

Terrorist or Disturbed Loner? Munich Attack Reveals Shifting Labels

WASHINGTON — Munich’s police chief, Hubertus Andrä, the morning after a gunman killed nine people and then himself, offered two pieces of information that seemed at odds.

The massacre, he said, appeared likely to be “a shooting rampage” rather than an act of terrorism. But when asked about Anders Behring Breivik, the right-wing Norwegian terrorist who killed 77 people exactly five years earlier, Chief Andrä answered that “this connection is obvious.”

“We must assume that he was aware of this attack,” he said, referring to the Munich gunman, 18-year-old Ali Sonboly.

Information about Mr. Sonboly is still emerging. But regardless of what details surface, Mr. Andrä’s classification of the attack — as potentially inspired by a famous terrorist attack, yet not terrorism itself — reflects more than the increasingly blurry line between mass assailant and terrorist.

It also highlights that this line is often drawn differently depending on the attacker’s apparent ideology.

When mass killers show even minor hints of affinity for jihadist groups, as they did in recent attacks in Orlando, Fla., and Nice, France, their actions are swiftly judged to be terrorism. But when their source of inspiration appears to be right-wing extremism, as Mr. Andrä speculated could be the case in Munich, they are often treated as disturbed loners. […]

nytimes.com