A gay bar has had s wdows shot out what is spected to be another anti-LGBTQ+, hate-motivated attack the US.
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- 50 AD, ISLAMIC TERRORISM TIE EYED ORLANDO GAY BAR SHOOTG
- ORLANDO GUNMAN ATTACKS GAY NIGHTCLUB, LEAVG 50 DEAD
- ROLLS ROYCE-DRIVG TATE AGENT JAILED FOR VIC ATTACK WH GLASS BOTTLE AND METAL BAR ON TWO GAY MEN - BEFORE DRIVG OFF HIS WHE LUXURY MOTOR
- GUNMAN KILLED 5 AT COLORADO SPRGS GAY CLUB BEFORE BEG SUBDUED BY PATRONS, POLICE SAY
- GUNMAN SHOOTS OUT GAY BAR WDOWS YET ANOTHER ATTACK ON AN LGBTQ+ VENUE
- US MLIM LEARS NMN ORLANDO GAY BAR ATTACK, SLAM EXTREMISTSTHE HEAD OF A PROMENT US MLIM ADVOCY GROUP SUNDAY STRONGLY NMNED THE NIGHTCLUB MASSACRE FLORIDA, LLG MEMBERS OF THE ISLAMIC STATE GROUP AN "ABERRATN" AMID ALLEGATNS THE GUNMAN WAS SPIRED BY THE JIHADISTS.BRETT MORIAN, OM DAYTONA BEACH, HUGS AN ATTENE DURG THE NDLELIGHT VIGIL. (AP) SOURCE: APORLANDO SHOOTG TIMELE: HOW THE HORROR UNFOLD'TERROR AND HATE': 50 AD WORST MASS SHOOTG US HISTORYWHO WAS THE ORLANDO SHOOTER: WHAT WE KNOW'DIVISIVE' MENTS 'NTRIBUTED' TO ORLANDO NIGHTCLUB ATTACK: LGBT SPOKWOMANASSLT RIFLE ED FLORIDA SHOOTG DRIV GUN NTROL BATETHE ARE THE FAC OF THE ORLANDO MASSACRE VICTIMSTHE HEAD OF A PROMENT US MLIM ADVOCY GROUP SUNDAY STRONGLY NMNED THE NIGHTCLUB MASSACRE FLORIDA, LLG MEMBERS OF THE ISLAMIC STATE GROUP AN "ABERRATN" AMID ALLEGATNS THE GUNMAN WAS SPIRED BY THE JIHADISTS.NIHAD AWAD, EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR OF THE COUNCIL ON AMERIN-ISLAMIC RELATNS, ALSO LLED FOR UNY AND URGED POLICIANS NOT TO "EXPLO" THE SLGHTER ORLANDO, WHICH LEFT 50 AD AND DOZENS MORE JURED."THIS IS A HATE CRIME. PLA AND SIMPLE. WE NMN THE STRONGT POSSIBLE TERMS," AWAD TOLD A NEWS NFERENCE."IT VLAT OUR PRCIPL AS AMERINS AND AS MLIMS. LET ME BE CLEAR, WE HAVE NO TOLERANCE FOR EXTREMISM OF ANY KD."CALEB, RIGHT, WIP TEARS AS HE STANDS WH HIS PARTNER YOSNIEL DURG A VIGIL MEMORY OF THE VICTIMS OF THE ORLANDO MASS SHOOTG, MIAMI BEACH, FLORIDA. SOURCE: AAPTHE FBI SAID THE AMERIN GUNMAN, 29-YEAR-OLD OMAR MATEEN, WHO DIED AN EXCHANGE OF FIRE WH POLICE, WAS BELIEVED TO HAVE MA A 911 LL PLEDGG ALLEGIANCE TO IS BEFORE THE SHOOTG.AWAD REFERENCED SUCH REPORTG AND SAID HE HAD A WORD FOR IS MEMBERS AND SUPPORTERS. SOURCE: AFP"YOU DO NOT SPEAK FOR . YOU DO NOT REPRENT . YOU ARE AN ABERRATN, YOU ARE AN OUTLAW ... THEY DON'T SPEAK FOR OUR FAH. THEY NEVER BELONGED TO THIS BETIFUL FAH."WH THE 2016 RACE FOR THE WHE HOE FULL SWG, AWAD WARNED THAT PERPETRATORS OF ATTACKS SUCH AS THE ONE ORLANDO "MEAN ONLY TO DIVI " AND LLED FOR LM ON THE POLIL ONT."AND TO THOSE POLICIANS WHO MAY TRY TO EXPLO THIS TRAGEDY, WE ASK THEM TO RPECT THE VICTIMS AND THEIR FAI. THIS IS NOT THE TIME TO SRE POTS. THIS IS NOT THE TIME TO EXPLO FEAR. THIS IS THE TIME FOR UNY AND FAH."SCEN OM OUTSI PULSE NIGHTCLUB MOMENTS AFTER THE FATAL SHOOTG OCCURRED. SOURCE: AAPORLANDO SHOOTG 'ACT OF TERROR' OBAMAPRINT BARACK OBAMA HAS CRIED THE ADLIT MASS SHOOTG AMERIN HISTORY AS AN "ACT OF TERROR" AND AN "ACT OF HATE" TARGETG A PLACE OF "SOLIDARY AND EMPOWERMENT" FOR GAYS AND LBIANS.HE URGED AMERINS TO CI WHETHER THIS IS THE KD OF "UNTRY WE WANT TO BE."SPEAKG HOURS AFTER THE SHOOTG AT A NIGHTCLUB ORLANDO, OBAMA SAID ON SUNDAY THAT THE FBI WOULD VTIGATE THE SHOOTG AS TERRORISM BUT THAT THE ALLEGED SHOOTER'S MOTIVATNS WERE UNCLEAR.HE SAID THE US "MT SPARE NO EFFORT" TO TERME WHETHER THE SPECT, INTIFIED BY THORI AS OMAR MATEEN, HAD ANY TI TO EXTREMIST GROUPS."WHAT IS CLEAR IS HE WAS A PERSON FILLED WH HATRED," OBAMA SAID OF THE ALLEGED SHOOTER.HE SAID THIS WAS "AN PECIALLY HEARTBREAKG DAY" FOR THE LBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL AND TRANSGENR MUNY, AND A SOBERG REMR THAT AN ATTACK ON ANY AMERIN IS AN ATTACK ON ALL, REGARDLS OF THEIR RACE, RELIGN, ETHNICY OR SEXUAL ORIENTATN.WHE HOE HOPEFUL DONALD TMP LOST NO TIME CLAIMG THE KILLG SHOWED HE HAS BEEN RIGHT ABOUT ISLAMIC EXTREMISM ALL LONG.THE REPUBLIN FLAG-BEARER MAND THAT PRINT BARACK OBAMA STAND DOWN IF HE REFED TO BLAME THE ATTACK ON WHAT TMP LLED "RADIL ISLAM."THE BILLNAIRE HAS PREVLY ARGUED THAT CINTS LIKE LAST YEAR'S SAN BERNARDO SHOOTG SHOW THAT THE UNED STAT SHOULD BAN MLIM TRAVELERS.LOL IMAM SAYS SHOOTER SHOWED NO SIGNS OF BEG VLENT HOMOPHOBETHE IMAM OF THE MOSQUE WHERE THE ORLANDO NIGHTCLUB SHOOTER WORSHIPPED SAID SUNDAY THAT THE SPECT NEVER GAVE ANY DITN HE WAS PABLE OF SUCH VLENCE.OMAR MATEEN, 29, ATTEND EVENG PRAYERS THREE OR FOUR TIM A WEEK AT THE ISLAMIC CENTER OF FORT PIERCE, BRGG HIS SON WHO IS ABOUT FOUR OR FIVE YEARS OLD, THE MOSQUE'S IMAM SAID.THIS UNDATED IMAGE SHOWS OMAR MATEEN, WHO THORI SAY KILLED DOZENS OF PEOPLE SI THE PULSE NIGHTCLUB ORLANDO. (AP) SOURCE: AP"HE WOULD PRAY AND HIS SON WOULD PLAY," SAID SYED SHAFEEQ RAHMAN, WHO HAS KNOWN MATEEN SCE 2003 WHEN HE BEME THE IMAM.MATEEN DID NOT SOCIALIZE, LEAVG WHEN SERVIC END.HE DIDN'T TALK BUT WOULD SE AND SHAKE HANDS, RAHMAN SAID.THE IMAM SAID WAS "UNBELIEVABLE" THAT A HEAVILY-ARMED MATEEN RRIED OUT A RAMPAGE AT A GAY CLUB ORLANDO, KILLG 50 PEOPLE AND WOUNDG 53.IT WAS THE ADLIT TERROR ATTACK THE UNED STAT SCE SEPTEMBER 11, 2001.AUTHORI SAID MATEEN APPARENTLY LLED 911 BEFORE THE MASSACRE AND PLEDGED ALLEGIANCE TO THE ISLAMIC STATE GROUP."I NEVER EXPECTED THIS," RAHMAN SAID, HOLDG A KORAN HIS HAND AS HE SPOKE WH REPORTERS. "WE TEACH PEACE AND JTICE.""IT MT BE SOME KD OF PSYCHOLOGIL PROBLEM OR ANGER PROBLEM," THE IMAM SAID, ADDG THAT MATEEN MIGHT HAVE BEEN RADILIZED ON THE INTER.POLICE VTIGATE THE BACK OF PULSE NIGHTCLUB, WHERE THEY LET OFF A SERI OF NTROLLED EXPLOSNS. SOURCE: AAPMATEEN'S PARENTS REGULARLY ATTEND SERVIC AT THE MOSQUE AND HIS FATHER WORKS LIFE SURANCE, THE IMAM SAID.RAHMAN SAID HE WAS NCERNED ABOUT THE SAFETY OF THE MOSQUE, LOTED ON A QUIET RINTIAL STREET THE SMALL ASTAL CY OF FORT PIERCE."THE PEOPLE WHO ARE BAD PEOPLE LOOK LIKE , AND THAT'S A PROBLEM," HE SAID.A MOMENT OF HORROR RULTS THE US' WORST EVER GUN ATTACKA MAN ARMED WH AN ASSLT RIFLE KILLED 50 PEOPLE DURG A GAY PRI CELEBRATN AT A NIGHTCLUB ORLANDO, FLORIDA, EARLY ON SUNDAY THE ADLIT MASS SHOOTG US HISTORY, A RAMPAGE PRINT BARACK OBAMA NOUNCED AS AN ACT OF TERROR AND HATE.POLICE KILLED THE GUNMAN, WHO WAS INTIFIED AS OMAR MATEEN, 29, A NEW YORK-BORN FLORIDA RINT AND US CIZEN WHO WAS THE SON OF IMMIGRANTS OM AFGHANISTAN AND HAD TWICE BEEN QUTNED BY FBI AGENTS RECENT YEARS.LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICIALS WERE PROBG EVINCE SUGGTG THE ATTACK MAY HAVE BEEN SPIRED BY ISLAMIC STATE ANTS, ALTHOUGH THEY SAID THERE WAS NO PROOF THAT MATEEN HAD WORKED DIRECTLY WH THE GROUP."IT HAS BEEN REPORTED THAT MATEEN MA LLS TO 911 THIS MORNG WHICH HE STATED HIS ALLEGIANCE TO THE LEAR OF THE ISLAMIC STATE," SAID RONALD HOPPER, THE FBI'S ASSISTANT SPECIAL AGENT CHARGE ON THE SE.SHOTS RANG OUT AT THE CROWD PULSE NIGHTCLUB THE HEART OF A CY THAT IS ONE OF THE MOST POPULAR US TOURIST STATNS AS SOME 350 PATRONS WERE ATTENDG A LAT MIC EVENT NJUNCTN WH GAY PRI WEEK CELEBRATNS. CLUBGOERS SCRIBED SCEN OF TERROR AND PANMONIUM, WH ONE MAN WHO PED SAYG HE HID UNR A R AND BANDAGED A WOUND STRANGER WH HIS SHIRT."WORDS NNOT AND WILL NOT SCRIBE THE FEELG OF THAT," JOSHUA MCGILL SAID A POSTG ON FACEBOOK. "BEG VERED BLOOD. TRYG TO SAVE A GUY'S LIFE."FIFTY-THREE PEOPLE WERE WOUND THE RAMPAGE. IT RANKED AS THE ADLIT SGLE US MASS SHOOTG CINT, ECLIPSG THE MASSACRE OF 32 PEOPLE AT VIRGIA TECH UNIVERSY 2007."WE KNOW ENOUGH TO SAY THIS WAS AN ACT OF TERROR, AN ACT OF HATE," OBAMA SAID A SPEECH OM THE WHE HOE. "AS AMERINS, WE ARE UNED GRIEF, OUTRAGE AND ROLVE TO FEND OUR PEOPLE."US OFFICIALS UTNED, HOWEVER, THEY HAD NO NCLIVE EVINCE OF ANY DIRECT NNECTN WH ANY FOREIGN EXTREMIST GROUP."SO FAR AS WE KNOW AT THIS TIME, HIS FIRST DIRECT NTACT WAS A PLEDGE OF BAYAT (LOYALTY) HE MA DURG THE MASSACRE," SAID A US UNTERTERRORISM OFFICIAL. "THIS GUY APPEARS TO HAVE BEEN PRETTY SCREWED UP WHOUT ANY HELP OM ANYBODY."STILL, THE SHOOTG WAS NEARLY CERTA TO REIGNE EMOTNAL BAT OVER AMERIN GUN LAWS AND HOMELAND SECURY THE MIDST OF A US PRINTIAL RACE SHAPG UP TO BE A VRLIC MPAIGN BETWEEN DEMOCRAT HILLARY CLTON AND REPUBLIN DONALD TMP.THE ATTACK ME SIX MONTHS AFTER A MARRIED UPLE CALIFORNIA - A US-BORN SON OF PAKISTANI IMMIGRANTS AND A PAKISTANI-BORN WOMAN HE MARRIED SDI ARABIA, FATALLY SHOT 14 PEOPLE SAN BERNARDO AN ATTACK SPIRED BY ISLAMIC STATE. THAT UPLE DIED A SHOOTOUT WH POLICE HOURS AFTER THEIR ATTACK ON A HOLIDAY PARTY ATTEND BY THE HBAND'S -WORKERS.RELATED READINGNO EVINCE OF DIRECT IS LK TO ORLANDO SHOOTG: US OFFICIALSSHARE8 M READPUBLISHED 13 JUNE 2016 12:45PMUPDATED 13 JUNE 2016 3:19PMSOURCE: AFPTAGSWORLDSHARE THIS WH FAY AND IENDSCOPY LKSHAREREMEND FOR YOU
- ‘IT’S MY FLORIDA TOO’: PULSE SHOOTG SURVIVOR BRANDON WOLF ON BEG BLACK, GAY AND THE ANTI-RON DESANTIS
50 AD, ISLAMIC TERRORISM TIE EYED ORLANDO GAY BAR SHOOTG
Until the mass shootg Orlando, the adlit attack on LGBT people the U.S. belonged to New Orleans. A 1973 gay bar arson attack killed 32. * orlando gay bar attack *
Police say a mass shootg at a gay nightclub Orlando, Florida, has rulted at least 20 people ad, wh dozens more wound.
ORLANDO GUNMAN ATTACKS GAY NIGHTCLUB, LEAVG 50 DEAD
The shootg rekdled memori of the 2016 massacre at the Pulse gay nightclub Orlando, Florida, that killed 49 people. * orlando gay bar attack *
Gay nightclub. - A shootg and hostage suatn early Sunday at a Florida nightclub -- which scrib self as "Orlando's hottt gay bar" -- left an timated 50 people ad, cludg the gunman, and more than 50 jured, officials say. — A man who lled 911 to proclaim allegiance to the Islamic State terrorist group, and who had been vtigated the past for possible terrorist ti, stormed a gay nightclub here Sunday morng, wieldg an asslt rifle and a pistol, and rried out the worst mass shootg Uned Stat history, leavg 50 people ad and 53 attacker, intified by law enforcement officials as Omar Mateen, a 29-year-old who was born New York, turned what had been a celebratory night of dancg to salsa and merengue mic at the crowd Pulse nightclub to a panicked scene of unimagable slghter, the floors slicked wh blood, the ad and the jured piled atop one another.
11, 2001, and the adlit attack on a gay target the natn’s history, though officials said was not clear whether some victims had been accintally shot by law enforcement toll of 50 ad is larger than the number of murrs Orlando over the prev three years.
Ebenhack/Associated PrsFears of vlence led to heightened secury at lbian, gay, bisexual and transgenr events and gatherg plac around the untry.
ROLLS ROYCE-DRIVG TATE AGENT JAILED FOR VIC ATTACK WH GLASS BOTTLE AND METAL BAR ON TWO GAY MEN - BEFORE DRIVG OFF HIS WHE LUXURY MOTOR
Law enforcement officials Santa Moni, Calif., nfirmed the arrt on Sunday of a heavily armed man who said he was the area for Wt Hollywood’s gay pri para. Mateen had talked often about killg people and had voiced hatred of gays, blacks, women and the time of the massacre, Mr. A versn of this article appears prt on, Sectn A, Page 1 of the New York edn wh the headle: Praisg Isis, Gunman Attacks Gay Nightclub, Leavg 50 Dead Worst Shootg on U.
ORLANDO — A gunman who pledged allegiance to the Islamic State opened fire si a crowd gay bar and dance club here early Sunday, leavg 49 people ad and 53 jured the adlit mass shootg U.
But also igned fears of a broar mpaign agast the Amerin gay, lbian and transgenr muny as the first anniversary of the landmark Supreme Court cisn legalizg same-sex marriage after the Orlando attack, police Southern California reported arrtg a heavily armed man who said he was head to a gay pri para the Los Angel area — though thori later said they were mistaken about the man’s target.
GUNMAN KILLED 5 AT COLORADO SPRGS GAY CLUB BEFORE BEG SUBDUED BY PATRONS, POLICE SAY
Meanwhile, Washgton, police stepped up patrols ahead of the Capal Pri Ftival, one of dozens of gay pri events schled this month across the natn and around the world.
(Vio: Moni Akhtar/The Washgton Post, Photo: STEVE NESIUS/The Washgton Post)The Islamic State has repeatedly executed gay people and released vios showg their gome executns.
GUNMAN SHOOTS OUT GAY BAR WDOWS YET ANOTHER ATTACK ON AN LGBTQ+ VENUE
“We’re proud of our gay muny Orlando, ” Mary Zika early Sunday eveng, a Florida LGBT advocy group had raised nearly half a ln dollars for the victims. A gunman wieldg an asslt-type rifle and a handgun opened fire si a crowd gay nightclub early Sunday, killg at least 50 people before dyg a gunfight wh SWAT officers, police said. Rolls Royce-drivg tate agent jailed for vic attack wh glass bottle and metal bar on two gay men - before drivg off his whe luxury motorUsman Murtza was outsi a bar wh John-Pl Kseler and Anthony Smh The 31-year old told the two men holdg hands they 'shouldn’t be dog that'He threw a bottle at Mr Kseler's face and then wield a metal bar at them Published: 19:40 BST, 21 July 2023 | Updated: 19:42 BST, 21 July 2023.
A Rolls Royce-drivg tate agent who attacked two two gay men wh a glass bottle and a metal bar has been Murtza, 31, was standg next to his whe Rolls Royce when he saw John-Pl Kseler and Anthony Smh holdg hands outsi a bar Birmgham cy centre October 2021. A Rolls Royce-drivg tate agent, Usman Murtza, 31, (pictured) who attacked two gay men wh a glass bottle and a metal bar has been jailed Durg the attack Murtza grabbed a bottle om his r and threw at Mr Kseler's face, g a ep gash (pictured)In a statement Mr Kseler, a stunt, scribed his ntug anger at the fact he and his iend were attacked 'bee of who we are, queer men' brand Murtza an ignorant homophobe and scribed the look on his face at the time as the 'purt distillatn of hatred I have ever seen', om Victoria Road, Tipton, has prev nvictns for harassment, handlg stolen goods and robbery. The bsman and married father, had gay iends himself, the urt heard, and said he uld empathise wh the victims bee of the siar hostily which me wh beg 's sentence had to be uplifted to acunt for the homophobic nature of the attack.
13am on October 10, 2021 as Mr Kseler and Mr Smh were walkg to a hotel havg been out Birmgham's Gay Village.
US MLIM LEARS NMN ORLANDO GAY BAR ATTACK, SLAM EXTREMISTSTHE HEAD OF A PROMENT US MLIM ADVOCY GROUP SUNDAY STRONGLY NMNED THE NIGHTCLUB MASSACRE FLORIDA, LLG MEMBERS OF THE ISLAMIC STATE GROUP AN "ABERRATN" AMID ALLEGATNS THE GUNMAN WAS SPIRED BY THE JIHADISTS.BRETT MORIAN, OM DAYTONA BEACH, HUGS AN ATTENE DURG THE NDLELIGHT VIGIL. (AP) SOURCE: APORLANDO SHOOTG TIMELE: HOW THE HORROR UNFOLD'TERROR AND HATE': 50 AD WORST MASS SHOOTG US HISTORYWHO WAS THE ORLANDO SHOOTER: WHAT WE KNOW'DIVISIVE' MENTS 'NTRIBUTED' TO ORLANDO NIGHTCLUB ATTACK: LGBT SPOKWOMANASSLT RIFLE ED FLORIDA SHOOTG DRIV GUN NTROL BATETHE ARE THE FAC OF THE ORLANDO MASSACRE VICTIMSTHE HEAD OF A PROMENT US MLIM ADVOCY GROUP SUNDAY STRONGLY NMNED THE NIGHTCLUB MASSACRE FLORIDA, LLG MEMBERS OF THE ISLAMIC STATE GROUP AN "ABERRATN" AMID ALLEGATNS THE GUNMAN WAS SPIRED BY THE JIHADISTS.NIHAD AWAD, EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR OF THE COUNCIL ON AMERIN-ISLAMIC RELATNS, ALSO LLED FOR UNY AND URGED POLICIANS NOT TO "EXPLO" THE SLGHTER ORLANDO, WHICH LEFT 50 AD AND DOZENS MORE JURED."THIS IS A HATE CRIME. PLA AND SIMPLE. WE NMN THE STRONGT POSSIBLE TERMS," AWAD TOLD A NEWS NFERENCE."IT VLAT OUR PRCIPL AS AMERINS AND AS MLIMS. LET ME BE CLEAR, WE HAVE NO TOLERANCE FOR EXTREMISM OF ANY KD."CALEB, RIGHT, WIP TEARS AS HE STANDS WH HIS PARTNER YOSNIEL DURG A VIGIL MEMORY OF THE VICTIMS OF THE ORLANDO MASS SHOOTG, MIAMI BEACH, FLORIDA. SOURCE: AAPTHE FBI SAID THE AMERIN GUNMAN, 29-YEAR-OLD OMAR MATEEN, WHO DIED AN EXCHANGE OF FIRE WH POLICE, WAS BELIEVED TO HAVE MA A 911 LL PLEDGG ALLEGIANCE TO IS BEFORE THE SHOOTG.AWAD REFERENCED SUCH REPORTG AND SAID HE HAD A WORD FOR IS MEMBERS AND SUPPORTERS. SOURCE: AFP"YOU DO NOT SPEAK FOR . YOU DO NOT REPRENT . YOU ARE AN ABERRATN, YOU ARE AN OUTLAW ... THEY DON'T SPEAK FOR OUR FAH. THEY NEVER BELONGED TO THIS BETIFUL FAH."WH THE 2016 RACE FOR THE WHE HOE FULL SWG, AWAD WARNED THAT PERPETRATORS OF ATTACKS SUCH AS THE ONE ORLANDO "MEAN ONLY TO DIVI " AND LLED FOR LM ON THE POLIL ONT."AND TO THOSE POLICIANS WHO MAY TRY TO EXPLO THIS TRAGEDY, WE ASK THEM TO RPECT THE VICTIMS AND THEIR FAI. THIS IS NOT THE TIME TO SRE POTS. THIS IS NOT THE TIME TO EXPLO FEAR. THIS IS THE TIME FOR UNY AND FAH."SCEN OM OUTSI PULSE NIGHTCLUB MOMENTS AFTER THE FATAL SHOOTG OCCURRED. SOURCE: AAPORLANDO SHOOTG 'ACT OF TERROR' OBAMAPRINT BARACK OBAMA HAS CRIED THE ADLIT MASS SHOOTG AMERIN HISTORY AS AN "ACT OF TERROR" AND AN "ACT OF HATE" TARGETG A PLACE OF "SOLIDARY AND EMPOWERMENT" FOR GAYS AND LBIANS.HE URGED AMERINS TO CI WHETHER THIS IS THE KD OF "UNTRY WE WANT TO BE."SPEAKG HOURS AFTER THE SHOOTG AT A NIGHTCLUB ORLANDO, OBAMA SAID ON SUNDAY THAT THE FBI WOULD VTIGATE THE SHOOTG AS TERRORISM BUT THAT THE ALLEGED SHOOTER'S MOTIVATNS WERE UNCLEAR.HE SAID THE US "MT SPARE NO EFFORT" TO TERME WHETHER THE SPECT, INTIFIED BY THORI AS OMAR MATEEN, HAD ANY TI TO EXTREMIST GROUPS."WHAT IS CLEAR IS HE WAS A PERSON FILLED WH HATRED," OBAMA SAID OF THE ALLEGED SHOOTER.HE SAID THIS WAS "AN PECIALLY HEARTBREAKG DAY" FOR THE LBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL AND TRANSGENR MUNY, AND A SOBERG REMR THAT AN ATTACK ON ANY AMERIN IS AN ATTACK ON ALL, REGARDLS OF THEIR RACE, RELIGN, ETHNICY OR SEXUAL ORIENTATN.WHE HOE HOPEFUL DONALD TMP LOST NO TIME CLAIMG THE KILLG SHOWED HE HAS BEEN RIGHT ABOUT ISLAMIC EXTREMISM ALL LONG.THE REPUBLIN FLAG-BEARER MAND THAT PRINT BARACK OBAMA STAND DOWN IF HE REFED TO BLAME THE ATTACK ON WHAT TMP LLED "RADIL ISLAM."THE BILLNAIRE HAS PREVLY ARGUED THAT CINTS LIKE LAST YEAR'S SAN BERNARDO SHOOTG SHOW THAT THE UNED STAT SHOULD BAN MLIM TRAVELERS.LOL IMAM SAYS SHOOTER SHOWED NO SIGNS OF BEG VLENT HOMOPHOBETHE IMAM OF THE MOSQUE WHERE THE ORLANDO NIGHTCLUB SHOOTER WORSHIPPED SAID SUNDAY THAT THE SPECT NEVER GAVE ANY DITN HE WAS PABLE OF SUCH VLENCE.OMAR MATEEN, 29, ATTEND EVENG PRAYERS THREE OR FOUR TIM A WEEK AT THE ISLAMIC CENTER OF FORT PIERCE, BRGG HIS SON WHO IS ABOUT FOUR OR FIVE YEARS OLD, THE MOSQUE'S IMAM SAID.THIS UNDATED IMAGE SHOWS OMAR MATEEN, WHO THORI SAY KILLED DOZENS OF PEOPLE SI THE PULSE NIGHTCLUB ORLANDO. (AP) SOURCE: AP"HE WOULD PRAY AND HIS SON WOULD PLAY," SAID SYED SHAFEEQ RAHMAN, WHO HAS KNOWN MATEEN SCE 2003 WHEN HE BEME THE IMAM.MATEEN DID NOT SOCIALIZE, LEAVG WHEN SERVIC END.HE DIDN'T TALK BUT WOULD SE AND SHAKE HANDS, RAHMAN SAID.THE IMAM SAID WAS "UNBELIEVABLE" THAT A HEAVILY-ARMED MATEEN RRIED OUT A RAMPAGE AT A GAY CLUB ORLANDO, KILLG 50 PEOPLE AND WOUNDG 53.IT WAS THE ADLIT TERROR ATTACK THE UNED STAT SCE SEPTEMBER 11, 2001.AUTHORI SAID MATEEN APPARENTLY LLED 911 BEFORE THE MASSACRE AND PLEDGED ALLEGIANCE TO THE ISLAMIC STATE GROUP."I NEVER EXPECTED THIS," RAHMAN SAID, HOLDG A KORAN HIS HAND AS HE SPOKE WH REPORTERS. "WE TEACH PEACE AND JTICE.""IT MT BE SOME KD OF PSYCHOLOGIL PROBLEM OR ANGER PROBLEM," THE IMAM SAID, ADDG THAT MATEEN MIGHT HAVE BEEN RADILIZED ON THE INTER.POLICE VTIGATE THE BACK OF PULSE NIGHTCLUB, WHERE THEY LET OFF A SERI OF NTROLLED EXPLOSNS. SOURCE: AAPMATEEN'S PARENTS REGULARLY ATTEND SERVIC AT THE MOSQUE AND HIS FATHER WORKS LIFE SURANCE, THE IMAM SAID.RAHMAN SAID HE WAS NCERNED ABOUT THE SAFETY OF THE MOSQUE, LOTED ON A QUIET RINTIAL STREET THE SMALL ASTAL CY OF FORT PIERCE."THE PEOPLE WHO ARE BAD PEOPLE LOOK LIKE , AND THAT'S A PROBLEM," HE SAID.A MOMENT OF HORROR RULTS THE US' WORST EVER GUN ATTACKA MAN ARMED WH AN ASSLT RIFLE KILLED 50 PEOPLE DURG A GAY PRI CELEBRATN AT A NIGHTCLUB ORLANDO, FLORIDA, EARLY ON SUNDAY THE ADLIT MASS SHOOTG US HISTORY, A RAMPAGE PRINT BARACK OBAMA NOUNCED AS AN ACT OF TERROR AND HATE.POLICE KILLED THE GUNMAN, WHO WAS INTIFIED AS OMAR MATEEN, 29, A NEW YORK-BORN FLORIDA RINT AND US CIZEN WHO WAS THE SON OF IMMIGRANTS OM AFGHANISTAN AND HAD TWICE BEEN QUTNED BY FBI AGENTS RECENT YEARS.LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICIALS WERE PROBG EVINCE SUGGTG THE ATTACK MAY HAVE BEEN SPIRED BY ISLAMIC STATE ANTS, ALTHOUGH THEY SAID THERE WAS NO PROOF THAT MATEEN HAD WORKED DIRECTLY WH THE GROUP."IT HAS BEEN REPORTED THAT MATEEN MA LLS TO 911 THIS MORNG WHICH HE STATED HIS ALLEGIANCE TO THE LEAR OF THE ISLAMIC STATE," SAID RONALD HOPPER, THE FBI'S ASSISTANT SPECIAL AGENT CHARGE ON THE SE.SHOTS RANG OUT AT THE CROWD PULSE NIGHTCLUB THE HEART OF A CY THAT IS ONE OF THE MOST POPULAR US TOURIST STATNS AS SOME 350 PATRONS WERE ATTENDG A LAT MIC EVENT NJUNCTN WH GAY PRI WEEK CELEBRATNS. CLUBGOERS SCRIBED SCEN OF TERROR AND PANMONIUM, WH ONE MAN WHO PED SAYG HE HID UNR A R AND BANDAGED A WOUND STRANGER WH HIS SHIRT."WORDS NNOT AND WILL NOT SCRIBE THE FEELG OF THAT," JOSHUA MCGILL SAID A POSTG ON FACEBOOK. "BEG VERED BLOOD. TRYG TO SAVE A GUY'S LIFE."FIFTY-THREE PEOPLE WERE WOUND THE RAMPAGE. IT RANKED AS THE ADLIT SGLE US MASS SHOOTG CINT, ECLIPSG THE MASSACRE OF 32 PEOPLE AT VIRGIA TECH UNIVERSY 2007."WE KNOW ENOUGH TO SAY THIS WAS AN ACT OF TERROR, AN ACT OF HATE," OBAMA SAID A SPEECH OM THE WHE HOE. "AS AMERINS, WE ARE UNED GRIEF, OUTRAGE AND ROLVE TO FEND OUR PEOPLE."US OFFICIALS UTNED, HOWEVER, THEY HAD NO NCLIVE EVINCE OF ANY DIRECT NNECTN WH ANY FOREIGN EXTREMIST GROUP."SO FAR AS WE KNOW AT THIS TIME, HIS FIRST DIRECT NTACT WAS A PLEDGE OF BAYAT (LOYALTY) HE MA DURG THE MASSACRE," SAID A US UNTERTERRORISM OFFICIAL. "THIS GUY APPEARS TO HAVE BEEN PRETTY SCREWED UP WHOUT ANY HELP OM ANYBODY."STILL, THE SHOOTG WAS NEARLY CERTA TO REIGNE EMOTNAL BAT OVER AMERIN GUN LAWS AND HOMELAND SECURY THE MIDST OF A US PRINTIAL RACE SHAPG UP TO BE A VRLIC MPAIGN BETWEEN DEMOCRAT HILLARY CLTON AND REPUBLIN DONALD TMP.THE ATTACK ME SIX MONTHS AFTER A MARRIED UPLE CALIFORNIA - A US-BORN SON OF PAKISTANI IMMIGRANTS AND A PAKISTANI-BORN WOMAN HE MARRIED SDI ARABIA, FATALLY SHOT 14 PEOPLE SAN BERNARDO AN ATTACK SPIRED BY ISLAMIC STATE. THAT UPLE DIED A SHOOTOUT WH POLICE HOURS AFTER THEIR ATTACK ON A HOLIDAY PARTY ATTEND BY THE HBAND'S -WORKERS.RELATED READINGNO EVINCE OF DIRECT IS LK TO ORLANDO SHOOTG: US OFFICIALSSHARE8 M READPUBLISHED 13 JUNE 2016 12:45PMUPDATED 13 JUNE 2016 3:19PMSOURCE: AFPTAGSWORLDSHARE THIS WH FAY AND IENDSCOPY LKSHAREREMEND FOR YOU
'Mr Smh said he no longer felt safe holdg his current partner's hand public or leavg gay bars and clubs Birmgham. 'Richard Butcher, fendg, told the urt Murtza ran his own tate agents, was married wh a young child and had a number homosexual iends. Rolls Royce-drivg tate agent jailed for vic attack wh glass bottle and metal bar on two gay men - before drivg off his whe luxury motor.
A history of attacks on gay nightclubs.
‘IT’S MY FLORIDA TOO’: PULSE SHOOTG SURVIVOR BRANDON WOLF ON BEG BLACK, GAY AND THE ANTI-RON DESANTIS
A June 24, 1973, arson attack on the Up Stairs Lounge, a gay bar, killed 32. A fire termed to be arson tore through the Up Stairs Lounge, a gay bar the French Quarter, killg 32 people.
He wasn’t there at the Up Stairs Lounge on June 24, 1973, when igned lighter fluid a stairwell unleashed hell on New Orleans’ gay muny. One patron featured Cama’s film said those the bar beme his fay; he no longer felt fortable wh his own bee he was gay.
Lnched 1968, was the world’s first Christian church to offer an clive mistry to the gay, lbian, bisexual and transgenr muny.