Why we must call Dylann Roof a terrorist [View all]

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Why we must call Dylann Roof a terrorist

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Dylann Roof, pictured here with patches from racist South African apartheid regimes


What is terrorism if it is not peaceful people worshipping their God who are shot and killed by a gunman they openly allowed into their church? Dylann Roof, who is now the primary suspect in the Charleston, South Carolina, massacre of nine women and men in the historic Emmanuel AME Church is a terrorist. Call it domestic terrorism if you must, but this man is a terrorist and what he did, pure and simple, was terrorism.

He knowingly and willfully targeted a church full of African American men and women not because he knew them—all indications are that he didn't, but because he wanted to send a message and strike terror into people. This is not a guess. Read this description from someone who was there. He left a witness living so she could tell everyone what happened.

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Don't call this a tragedy. A mudslide or an earthquake is tragic. An accidental house fire is tragic. Those things don't cause people 11 states over to have genuine fear. If a house burns down in Iowa, homeowners in Florida aren't scared shitless the next day. If a mudslide happens in Santa Barbara, homeowners in Montana aren't worried to death it will happen to them next.

This is terrorism. Don't call this the act of a madman. It is an insult to those battling mental illness and it is also a degree of deference you never saw given to men like Osama Bin Laden. This was a well-planned, well-conceived attack. The murderer didn't stumble upon this church in some type of manic accident. It was strategic.

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Of course not. This is terrorism. Calling it anything less is an insult to the victims of this massacre.

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