Almost certain to be left unmentioned in the memorial, as it is in this NBC News article, is the fact that the mass murderer, Omar Mateen, was an avowed jihad terrorist.
Here are some of the highlights from his conversations with police:
“I pledge my allegiance to (unidentifiable name) on behalf of the Islamic State”
“Call me Mujahideen, call me the Soldier of God”
“You have to tell America to stop bombing Iraq and Syria. They are killing a lot of innocent people. What am I to do here when my people are getting killed over there. You get what I’m saying?”
In reference to his comments about wearing a bomb vest: “You can’t smell it. Bring your little American bomb dog, they are f**king outdated anyway.”
“They should not have bombed and killed Abu Wahid. Do your f**king homework and figure out who Abu Wahid is, ok?”
It appears Omar was “triggered” by a Pentagon air strike of ISIS leader Abu Wahid, actually Abu Wahib, a mid-level Islamic State commander, which indicates Mateen’s intricate knowledge of the group, and deep commitment to it.
“Congress votes to make Pulse nightclub a national memorial,” by Dan Avery, NBC News, June 10, 2021:
Three days before the fifth anniversary of the attack on Pulse nightclub in Orlando, Florida, the U.S. Senate unanimously passed legislation designating the site of the gay club a national memorial.
The House passed its version of the bill May 12. The measure now goes to President Joe Biden, who has supported a number of pro-LGBTQ proposals and is expected to sign it into law, though it’s unclear when.
Sen. Rick Scott, R-Fla., introduced the Senate bill. Scott was governor at the time of the massacre, which saw 49 clubgoers killed and dozens more wounded before the shooter, Omar Mateen, was killed in a shootout with law enforcement after a three-hour siege.
While introducing the measure Wednesday, Scott said speaking to parents who lost children and attending funerals and wakes for the young victims following the June 12, 2016, attack “was one of the hardest things I’ve ever had to do,” according to the Orlando Sentinel.
“[It was] an evil act of terrorism designed to divide us as a nation and strike fear in our hearts and minds,” Scott later said in a statement. “But instead, we came together, and supported each other through heartbreak and darkness, to preserve and rebuild.”
While a similar bill passed the House in 2020, it languished in the Senate. Scott’s measure passed by unanimous consent, enjoying bipartisan backing from fellow Florida Sen. Marco Rubio, a Republican, and California Sen. Alex Padilla, a Democrat.
In a statement, Rubio said he was “inspired by Orlando’s continued resiliency, pride, and strength.”
On Twitter, Brandon Wolf, a survivor of the attack, thanked the Florida delegation “for recognizing our hallowed ground.”
A message from the Pulse nightclub Facebook page also expressed gratitude for the bill’s passage.
“The unanimous consent is such welcome news as we are set to mark the five-year remembrance of the Pulse tragedy,” the statement said. “This recognition from both the House and Senate means so much to the LGBTQ+ community. #WeWillNotLetHateWin”…
Thinker1 says
Nothing holy (hallowed) ab that place.
Infidel says
That’s what I was thinking. It would only have been worth it had it noted that event as a homophobic act of jihad – but it’s not gonna!
gravenimage says
Actually, that’s exactly what this proposal *does* say.
And if Thinker1 a fan of Muslims murdering people at Pulse? If you think that the only targets of Jihad are gay people, you are grossly mistaken.
LB says
I believe what Thinker1 is implying here, and I agree with him, is that the only reason this was voted in is because Pulse nightclub is a gay club, and the victims were (probably) all gay. It has nothing to do with the shooter being a muslim jihadi.
Point being, the USA has had many, MANY mass shootings over the years, but only this one is somehow worthy of national memorial. Where is the Las Vegas shooting for example? It had much more dead (61) and injured (867), so what gives? Oh that’s right, the victims were mostly country-loving straight white republicans. They don’t matter at all, so into the memory hole they go!
Are you seeing the hypocrisy here?
gravenimage says
LB, Thinker1 specifically said that there is nothing “hallowed” in memorializing the victims of Islam if they are gay.
And I have noted several times here that the proposal does specifically note that the shooter was inspired by ISIS. I wish they had used the term “Jihad”, but this sadly is still not all that well known. Still, the direct reference to ISIS means that they are hardly hiding this being an Islamic terror attack.
Is the Pulse massacre getting more attention because the venue is gay? I don’t know. This was also the most deadly shooting in American history at the time, and the worst Jihad terror attack since 9/11. I think this may have had something to do with it.
As for Las Vegas, your implication that there is no planned memorial is mistaken:
“Thousands of ideas offered for Vegas mass shooting memorial”
https://apnews.com/article/las-vegas-shootings-las-vegas-mass-shooting-nevada-7fee200490ca2e4316e927871c31d0e8
There are many other articles on the subject.
So no–no hypocrisy here.
Raja says
Infidel,
You have hit the nail, they have cleverly dropped the word jihad, leave alone Islamic terrorism. Suddenly, the spot has become hallowed too.
John says
Maybe some snowflakes will carry signs, “Gays for Islam” at the dedication ceremony.
Infidel says
Little Marco, even after that event, in a town hall interview condemned a gun shop in another state that declared itself an islam-free zone and announced that they wouldn’t sell to muslims. I for one am seriously underwhelmed by him, and hope that Floridians find someone more ‘America First’ to replace him
Raja says
Yes Infidel,
The concept of “islam free zone” in one of the shops is already 3 years old( roughly). Hope all Americans wake up to the scheming of Islam
mgoldberg says
And yet, Ft Hood has been virtually erased from the national consciousness and discussion. The the President Obama, referred to it as workplace violence……. workplace violence, indeed
A slaughter by a muslim MD, a psychiatrist, who skated thru the advancement process without so much as a look at his Jihadist self declarations that slaughtered 16 and wounded 30 more. Men, women, children, and this homicidist is still on government monies as he lays hospitalized, and the victims- they are without military benefits. It is a true travesty, and all it resulted in besides the erasure of the meaning of the Jihad attack by a doctor, a doctor of psychiatry, who’s predations which he announced were ignored. And those predations were called simply workplace violence.
That place should be a national memorial to our stupidity and self deception disorder now commanded by virtually all the elites.
John says
Promotion process. If he received a bad evaluation, he would go to the equal opportunity office and complain. The rater or senior rater would have their career ruined. Happens in the army all the time with political correctness.
James Lincoln says
John,
From a retired O-6 Navy Captain, that is a true statement in today’s US military…
gravenimage says
Grim to hear.
mgoldberg says
He gave a Lecture to fellow doctors- a continuing medical education lecture, which was instead a lecture on the validity of Jihad. It was according to reports looked upon as at best bizarre and at worst, totally inappropriate for a medical lecture to his colleagues. It should have gotten him investigated for that lecture, but….. higher ups were desperate for advancing him. And the rest- the slaughter of his comrades and other entirely innocent people should have lead to further investigation of he, and they- but the Obama Administration saw fit to hamstring any such commonsense measures. And now- last year as Laura Ingraham of Fox News: “Going to a restaurant is prohibited but ransacking a restaurant is permissible. Going to church is forbidden but burning down a church is fine.”
gravenimage says
+1
gravenimage says
Congress votes to make Pulse nightclub, site of jihad massacre, a national memorial
……………….
This may be a good thing.
Actually, while the NBC article does not mention this being Jihad, the proposal *does*. This, from Marco Rubio’s site:
“Honoring the memory of the victims of the heinous attack at the Pulse nightclub on June 12, 2016.
Whereas, on June 12, 2016, a gunman inspired by the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria targeted the Pulse nightclub in Orlando, Florida, where he killed 49 innocent victims and wounded dozens more in a despicable attack;…”
https://www.rubio.senate.gov/public/index.cfm/2020/6/rubio-scott-lead-resolution-recognizing-anniversary-of-terrorist-attack-at-pulse-nightclub
Kudos to him, Rick Scott, and Alex Padilla.
CogitoErgoSum says
This appears to be the actual text of the bill that has been sent to Biden for his signature.
https://www.govtrack.us/congress/bills/117/hr49/text
It’s short and sweet. The site is not to be a part of the Federal Park Service and no federal funds are to be used for any purpose related to the memorial. No wording for any type of plaque or marker is specified in the bill. I wonder if they will even fly the U.S. flag there or just have the rainbow flag flying by itself (whatever the latest version of it is).
SecondThoughter says
The LBGQT (or whatever it is now) community has been whining all Pride month about how oppressed they are by evil Republican heterosexual males even though every institution in America is bending over backwards to prove how tolerant they are yet Islam wants to kill them and there is absolute silence.
gravenimage says
Noting that this was Jihad terror is not exactly silence.
But yes–more gay people should educate themselves about the threat of Islam.
E T says
Yes they should understand the real truth about how Muslims feel. Canadian Imam Zafar Bangash, of the York Islamic Society stated: “It is time for us to pick up stones and stone these people to death for this abomination..”……….Allah imposes this responsibility upon us”.
E T says
Imam Mustafa Khattab of the Edmonton Anatolia Islamic Center stated: “Gays are diseased- – require a special treatment”. He does not like to be associated with gay people”.
Bilal Philips of the Abu Huraira Center “Evil and dangerous under Islamic law and the punishment is death”.
gravenimage says
Too true, E T.
Raja says
Islam, a supremacist ideology with a perverted concept of a goon god has no business to murder gays, who it claims have done some despicable sin. In the “eyes” of true all transgression is sin, lying included.
It is said that homosexuality was rampant prior to the first century but obedience to the gospel transformed the lives of people viz a viz God.
1 Cor 1: 18 says: For the word of the cross is foolishness to those who are perishing, but to us who are being saved it is the power of God.
CogitoErgoSum says
Link to a virtual tour of the site:
https://my.matterport.com/show/?m=PjQYRBx8h7p&play=1
No crosses but I did notice at least two pictures of a U.S. flag – but mostly rainbow flags by far.
gravenimage says
Thanks for that link.
American Pride says
But why? Congress has already forgotten 911 and all who fell on that Jihad day in America on our soil and allowed the enemy into OUR government to make concessions for Islam OUR enemy is the enemy of all the human race.
Wellington says
Just another example of nothing more than something happening to some people. No big deal, eh Ilhan?
gravenimage says
Strangely, Omar does mention the anniversary of the shooting on her Twitter account–but carefully omits the fact that this was a Jihad terror attack.
https://twitter.com/ilhan/status/1138835607470379008?lang=en
In the commenting Tweets, some moron (or liar) says it was a “far right” attack–but two others set him straight about this having been an Islamic terror attack. One even notes the Qur’anic roots of this hatred.
mtman2 says
This Islamic terrorist killer was interviewed 2x by the FBI and then allowed to buy the gun he used to genocide 49…
This has happened by the FBI over + over in actually aiding by allowing this type of shooting event to happen and do nothing to stop it = they thrn are not only complicit but accessory’s to it – making them terrorist’s…!
gravenimage says
I think in a lot of cases the FBI and other law enforcement have their hands tied:
“The FBI investigated the Orlando mass shooter for 10 months and found nothing. Here’s why”
https://www.latimes.com/nation/la-na-fbi-investigation-mateen-20160712-snap-story.html
James Lincoln says
Now if we can just get the *entire* LGBTQ community to join us in the fight against islamic jihad.
After all, it would be in their best interests…
gravenimage says
Agreed, James.
Giacomo Latta says
People in Massachusetts know the background of Mateen’s ”homeboy” Tsarnaev. Elizabeth Warren must have screwed that up. But will Floridans get the full news on Mateen’s background? Biden will likely wait for the start of World War III or some other momentous event in order to keep details hidden.
Walter Sieruk says
This five year anniversary of the horrendous Muslim terrorist shooter who massacre in which 49 people were murdered and 53 other people were wounded in a gay nightclub in Orlando Florida , USA on the date of June 12, 2016.
First, the Qu ‘ran does instruct devout Muslims in Surah 47:4. to engage in the jihad of violence and killing for the Cause of Islam ,as Surah 47: 4 “Whenever you encounter the disbelievers strike off their heads until you make a great slaughter among them…” A firearm a much more effective method of making a great slaughter among them “than a sword can.
Likewise the instructions in Surah are “O you who believe! Fight those of the disbelievers who are close to you, and let them find harshness in you…” Shooting people with bullets is, for sure, a way to show non-Muslim harshness.
Second, the apologists for Islam had investigated the personal history of the murderous terrorist and declared that they discovered that this murderer had homosexual tendencies himself and thus saw in them thing he hate about himself.
So those apologists for Islam claim that’s the real reason he committed that deadly shooting and not Islam and thus he was not “a real Muslim.”
To reply to that claim that terrorist murderer might had some homosexual feeling and that might had played a factor in his deadly rampage. Nevertheless, he was still a real Muslim engaging the violence and killing of the jihad because with the Islamic doctrine of a the violent jihad is a Muslim who is also a jihadist dies in a suicide/homicide attack, which the imams call a “martyrdom operation,” all his sins are wiped totally out, including homosexuality, and he is allowed to enter a paradise in the afterlife.
Third, this is the same Islamic concept for the jihadists of al Qaeda who are guilty of the murderous affronts which they committed on September 11, 2001. For the propagandists for Islam tell uninformed Westerners that “The night before 9/11 two of those terrorist hijackers were in a strip club watching the girls dancing and another one of them called an escort service. Therefore because of the those un-Islamic actions they couldn’t possible be real Muslims.”
That answer by the apologists for Islam is total balderdash because of the Islamic doctrine of dying in a “martyrdom operation” , as already explained above, all of the sins would be wiped clean and all those al Qaeda jihadist are then entitled to enter an Islamic paradise with many virgins.
So don’t let the apologists and propagandists beguile you in their attempted cover -up story to hide the truth about the violent and deadly essence of Islam.
JanD says
Traditional Islamic doctrine + deeply committed Islamic fundamentalists = reasonable Islamophobia