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The Messy Mind of Omar Mateen
A storm of contradictory motivations appear to have driven the Orlando shooter.
For many young men, "some nonsense" about Islam has become an escape.
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The massacre of 49 people at an Orlando nightclub by an American citizen named Omar Mateen brought a predictable response from Donald Trump. He denounced Muslims for not informing on the terrorists in their midst and insinuated that President Barack Obama, who doesn't publicly use the phrase "radical Islam," was actually sympathetic to such extremists.