'If you see something, say something' should apply to white supremacists, too
The 2,300-word “manifesto” believed to have been written by the young man responsible for the massacre in El Paso on Saturday is not a rant. It is not a screed.
However twisted, it is a relatively cogent description of a belief system that justifies mass murder in the name of race and ethnicity. “This attack is a response to the Hispanic invasion of Texas,” reads the second sentence in the document entitled “The Inconvenient Truth About Me.”
Some omissions are worth noting. African-Americans are not referenced directly – only immigrants and brown people. More important, God receives only two lower-case mentions. Once as a curse. And that struck a chord with me.
In late 2015, ISIS was at the height its geographic reach in the Middle East, stretching toward Baghdad in Iraq and eating up much of northern Syria. On the internet, young American Muslims were being targeted by Islamic state recruiters. One Georgia teenager had taken the bait and was caught trying to enter Syria.
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(Atlanta Journal Constitution)