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Initial reports: Las Vegas shooter “recent convert to Islam.” Now: “We have no idea what his belief system was.”

Oct 2, 2017 9:08 am By Robert Spencer

Whence the initial reports? Why the change? No information yet.

“Las Vegas gunman identified as 64-year-old Mesquite, NV man,” by David Rosenberg, Arutz Sheva, October 2, 2017:

Police take shooter’s female companion into custody after attack which left more than 50 dead, 100 wounded. 2 Police officers among dead.

The gunman responsible for a deadly shooting attack at a country music festival in Las Vegas has been identified as 64-year-old Stephen Paddock, a resident of Mesquite, Nevada.

Police say Paddock had a criminal record, but no known ties to terrorism.

While initial reports claimed Paddock was a recent convert to Islam, Clark County Sherrif [sic] Joseph Lombardo said he had no knowledge of Paddock’s religious beliefs.

“As far as his history and his background, we haven’t completed that part of the investigation yet.”

“We have no idea what his belief system was.”

Authorities are now searching for the shooter’s companion, a 62-year-old woman identified as Marilou Danley, whom police have called “a person of interest”. KHOU-TV‘s Bill Bishop identified Danley as Paddock’s wife.

More than 50 people were killed when the gunman opened fire just before 10:30 p.m. local time Sunday night on the Route 91 Harvest Festival country music show at the Mandalay Bay resort in Las Vegas. In addition, some 200 people were wounded in the attack….

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  1. John W says

    Oct 2, 2017 at 9:12 am

    What initial reports? I haven’t come across them yet.

    • Dave says

      Oct 2, 2017 at 10:29 am

      Agree. But jihadi overt and covert jihadi are growing menace.

      But we must thank the Airlines that decided to comply with the jihadi’s wishes http://tinyurl.com/y782l6r8

      Its Hilarious !

    • oliver grant says

      Oct 3, 2017 at 1:47 am

      The Oklahoma bombers brought home a Filipino bride and are alleged to have got training from WTC 1993 bomber Ramsi Yousef who was honing his bombing skills there and bombed a air japan 747 from there. When a mideast terrorist commits a mass shooting, we know exactly what the motive is. Why is it a mystery when a white retired guy does exactly the same thing? We must assume the motive was a military attack, the only question is what nation state he was fighting for. The number of nations with the capability and motive is very, very small.

      • C says

        Oct 3, 2017 at 5:17 am

        Their is a lot of money in Vegas. No one wants to reveal this as a terrorist attack. Àll the police found was a dead body. Their might have been more than one shooter. It’s possible Paddock didn’t shoot anyone.

    • Lawrence says

      Oct 3, 2017 at 2:44 am

      Pathetic illogic from Spencer. Initial reports from who? ISIS? Other than them, you have no other source. We have no idea what his beliefs are, comes from ANOTHER SOURCE entirely. You know like his brother. Spencer pretends or implies by his byline, that it’s the same sources that have changed their tune. Different sources. So no change of tune or U-Turn. Different sources that have nothing in common with one another.

      • Sons of Liberty says

        Oct 3, 2017 at 1:53 pm

        Why is it illogical to at least consider this a possible Muslim terrorist attack when he FOLLOWED the MODUS OPERANDI of ISIS , and they claimed he was one of their jihadists !

      • Sons of Liberty says

        Oct 3, 2017 at 2:02 pm

        Lawrence ,…you know nothing . Robert Spencer doesn’t jump to conclusions but when ISIS claims responsibility for this after they put out a video calling for an ATTACK in Las Vegas a LOGICAL PERSON would at LEAST CONSIDER IT !

    • pandainc says

      Oct 3, 2017 at 10:33 pm

      “Police take shooter’s female companion into custody after attack which left more than 50 dead, 100 wounded. 2 Police officers among dead.” Interesting — I had read that she was in the Philippines …

  2. Schrödinger says

    Oct 2, 2017 at 9:14 am

    Even if this proves not to be a jihadist massacre and terror attack — as may be the case — many Muslims will be taking keen note, delighted at the substantial death toll and massive carnage and casualties arising from this tragedy.

    Islamic State headquarters can also be fully relied upon to rush into print an edict exhorting the identical strategy be enthusiastically adopted by their brethren, wherever and whenever they can be.

    • Tim Myers says

      Oct 2, 2017 at 12:10 pm

      I think it is the Republicans that are jumping to a conclusion just because this man is white, and doesn’t fit their narrative of who a terrorist is…..

      • HarveyMushman says

        Oct 2, 2017 at 4:18 pm

        What part of “ISIS claims he is a recent convert” do you not understand??? Maybe his being a muslim doesn’t fit your preferred narrative….

  3. Ashley says

    Oct 2, 2017 at 9:18 am

    The first sentence to this article implies that the female companion is in custody. But deeper in the article it says police are searching for Marilou Danley.

    Man, I hope she’s been nabbed.

  4. Krazy Kafir says

    Oct 2, 2017 at 9:19 am

    Shooter’s brother says he was not political or religious. Then he says he was not close with his brother. So in other words he doesn’t have a clue.

    • Elle says

      Oct 2, 2017 at 10:09 am

      Exactly!!

    • Dawn says

      Oct 2, 2017 at 10:47 am

      Exactly !

  5. Dave says

    Oct 2, 2017 at 9:20 am

    Its just speculation that he is muslim at this point. Until his family, GF or neighbours confirm it, its too early.

    He could be a nutjob

  6. marina says

    Oct 2, 2017 at 9:21 am

    Now muslims and leftists would say that a white male is the attacker here and muslims are called terrorists.

  7. Angry Aussie says

    Oct 2, 2017 at 9:22 am

    https://www.google.com.au/amp/www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4940156/amp/ISIS-video-called-lone-wolf-attack-Las-Vegas.html

    • Ashley says

      Oct 2, 2017 at 9:38 am

      Thank you for the link, Angry Aussie.

      • Angry Aussie says

        Oct 2, 2017 at 9:39 am

        You are welcome.

  8. Roger says

    Oct 2, 2017 at 9:22 am

    There was a call in later 2015 by ISIS for lone wolf attacks specifically in Vegas… been a time lapse but who knows. I doubt that this administration will cover up any ISIS assocation.

  9. Charles says

    Oct 2, 2017 at 9:23 am

    Recent convert?
    Sounds very likely!
    Q. How did he get hold of full auto weapons? Same way all myslim jihadists do? From his mosque? From a muslim “Brother”?

    • Leon says

      Oct 2, 2017 at 10:24 am

      He was likely using ‘bump stocks’. These don’t require altering the rifle mechanically to get a full-auto effect.

    • Brian Hoff says

      Oct 4, 2017 at 2:17 am

      Nevada have no gun control laws you can legal own than machine gun in that state.

  10. Green infidel says

    Oct 2, 2017 at 9:35 am

    Doesnt Mesquite in Spanish mean mosque?!

    • Mateen Elass says

      Oct 2, 2017 at 10:00 am

      I’m sure that’s an attempt at humor — unfortunately, uninformed people will believe you and add to the rumor mill spreading word that the shooter must be a Muslim. Let’s wait instead for some solid bits of proof so we can make some reasoned conclusions….

    • Eur says

      Oct 2, 2017 at 10:47 am

      Mezquita. Mesquite is a plant in an indigenous language. Fuck mosques and mezquitas… viva la planta mesquite.

    • gravenimage says

      Oct 5, 2017 at 1:28 am

      No–it refers to a tree that grows in the southwest.

  11. Emilie Green says

    Oct 2, 2017 at 9:37 am

    Being Muslim would of course explain it all.

    But for the left/MSM, being Muslim would equally confound it all.

    • C T says

      Oct 2, 2017 at 10:49 am

      Being like Hodgkisson would also explain it. You don’t get a more pro-Trump crowd than the crowd there.

  12. John Deere says

    Oct 2, 2017 at 9:55 am

    Hard to know what the real facts are, but he was supposedly a leftist and his facebook posts and other internet postings ate being scrubbed by the Left. Last February he posted an anti-gun anti-NRA tirade… strange for someone who obviously had access to or owned such weaponry. Smells like a lot more to this than we are being told… The Left needs to stop scrubbing the internet. Let all the facts come out.

    • Alarmed Pig Farmer says

      Oct 2, 2017 at 12:42 pm

      Hard to know what the real facts are, but he was supposedly a leftist…

      If this is correct then he was halfway to being a Jihadist. The affinity globo-socialists have for Moslems is beyond argument now.

  13. WorkingClassPost says

    Oct 2, 2017 at 9:57 am

    This just shows how counter-productive the mainstream lies are.

    Now when they say that he’s not a muslim, and this really has nothing to do with islam – even if that’s true – nobody believes them.

    • TL says

      Oct 2, 2017 at 10:53 am

      That’s nonsense. Tens of millions of fools voted for Hillary, and most of them are ready to believe any propaganda which exhonorates their favorite sect of Abrahamic outlawry. They lap it up like thirsty dogs, and MSM noise is not only productive but also profitable for both its owners and its employees. It’s so effective that even the WSJ published another tear-jerking photo of Muslim pests on the front page of this past weekend’s edition.

      • Alarmed Pig Farmer says

        Oct 2, 2017 at 12:50 pm

        Tens of millions of fools voted for Hillary…

        And the media, which includes entertainment and academe, enthusiastically supported Hillary. It was never mentioned by anyone, even Trump, that Hillary had as her closest aide a woman from an eminent pro-Jihad family. I still suspect Huma of tipping off the Mujahadin that the Ambassador Stevens would be in Benghazi at a particular time. Huma is the most likely explanation of how they knew. I’d put Brennan down as suspect number two. Trouble is this has never been investigated. But Huma had all the security clearances to know.

      • underbed cat says

        Oct 2, 2017 at 2:11 pm

        And in the heart of Islam, Saudi Arabia, now woman can drive…..with concessions that are many….where they still stone woman for adultery, behead apostates in the square after Friday prayers for all to see, if the people of Las Vegas put no stock that this can be any religion, and poses no threat, that it is racism to speak of these things they should read the authentic Quran, a doctrine that muslims are obligated to follow. Part of the goal of the doctrine is to deceive for the very reason so not to offend, but to protect the doctrine which they already know, but are also obligated to remain silent on the subject.

  14. Begonejihadi says

    Oct 2, 2017 at 10:29 am

    When will the leftiests start condemn Islam, the religion of peace ? Just a few month converted to Islam, the 64 years old man has become mass killing machine.

    • Brian Hoff says

      Oct 4, 2017 at 2:27 am

      There is no proofbe was than moslim.

  15. Clue says

    Oct 2, 2017 at 10:31 am

    No one knows for sure whether he is the attacker. When police entered his room he was found dead! Possibility is there some one else cold have did it!!!

  16. TL says

    Oct 2, 2017 at 11:01 am

    There is a bright side of this story: America can police are maintaining and strengthening their reputation for being habitual liars who are trusted only by morons and, perhaps, the scam artists who arrange payments of wages and benefits to police and retired officers.

    • Brian Hoff says

      Oct 4, 2017 at 3:17 am

      Most police are honest hatd eotking people except for the New Orlean police department. They must go by evidence and provabe fact. Texas have to pay afew million dollar to than man an his wife who ran than child care center falsely accue of being satanic and sent over 20 year in prison with no good proof. They where goning witness statements that make no sense like a 5 year old boy say that they shot than dog dead and they.Bury the dog the dog in than cemetery and they fly thought the air and then they unbury the dog and brough it back to life. The crime lab did than poor job handle the evidence. The lab said one girl was rape but there no evidence of her hyphen was broke. There was damage done the hyphen it was fround this can happen natural but no trace of sperm was found. Even adult testaments where like one of than little kid. This happen at than time of satanic doing black mass all over the world by murder millions of people each month. Than law student discover this case and show iy to his professor who contact the current DA of the place this crime took place who look at the case file and it make no sense at all than the DA reopen the case than court oder then free from jail.

    • gravenimage says

      Oct 5, 2017 at 1:34 am

      Watching Fascist TL and Muslim “Brian Hoff” talk past each other would be amusing if it were not so sad.

  17. scherado says

    Oct 2, 2017 at 2:45 pm

    His bleeping wife will know everything we need to know.

  18. warmac9999 says

    Oct 2, 2017 at 7:53 pm

    It is hard to believe that this is a lone mass murderer. It appears to be more like a Mumbai type assault that went bad when the assault team failed to show up. This guy had nearly a dozen semi-automatic rifles in his room. No one individual has a need for this amount of rifles and ammunition as it is too cumbersome and difficult to employ them. In addition, this wasn’t spur of the moment but obviously planned in advance to maximize casualties. From what I have read he is a Democrat, Sanders supporter and anti-Trumper which may account for his specific choice of a CW concert group. The FBI hasn’t said that he is alone only that there is no indication so far of a terrorist connection.

  19. Scorpio says

    Oct 3, 2017 at 3:11 pm

    Let’s wait. The mystery will eventually be revealed. However, the mystery of Benghazi has been successfully buried and no one was charged. Yes, yes, I know, but Trump is president now and the investigation may be honest without any instructions to cover up.

  20. UNCLE VLADDI says

    Oct 3, 2017 at 7:42 pm

    Obama’s FBI legacy at work. They probably went in and “scrubbed” (purged) his communication devices of all ISIS references to support their Evil White Guy “narrative” (lies).

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