Chattanooga Shooter Researched Religious Justification For Violence: Official

[whatthehey]

36. Slightly, just a tad, more deplorable is that many Muslims disagree with you

and find plenty in Islam to justify these actions. Islamic terrorism rests on that very fact. They are not getting, often comfy middle class well educated, folks to blow themselves and others up out of poverty or desperation, but out of religious fervor. Islam is certainly not alone in this as terrorists have killed in my lifetime for Hinduism, Sikhism, Buddhism, intra-Islamic, Christian and intra-Christian causes at the very least. It's just the most widespread and problematic at the moment.

Even here we see a lifelong Muslim deliberately researching justification for murder; but more telling is that, having committed the murders, he obviously found that justification quite readily. Just because your assessment of Islam disagrees (which, unless you happen to speak fluent Arabic, no Muslim would take very seriously as all translations of the Qur'an are automatically considered less than the word of God. Even if you do, it's highly unlikely you happen to be a recognized exponent of tafseer. I'm not either obviously) does not mean the justification is not there.