Chattanooga Shooter Researched Religious Justification For Violence: Official

[Yo_Mama]

38. There is no doubt that this was a religiously motivated deed.

He was depressed, he was failing at living the life Allah commanded, and dying in combat for Allah earned him forgiveness for all his sins, and even being wounded in combat for Allah does in at least one verse.

That doesn't mean that other Muslims have to do or are commanded to do the same - believing and doing good deeds is the path to paradise in the Koran. Martyrdom is the path to a glorious afterlife. Most Muslims would interpret a large part of "jihad" as the struggle you fight with yourself to turn away from evil.

If you cannot live a right life, dying a right death in the cause of Allah gets you mercy and glory.

It's in the Koran. And the blog with two posts and the text form the "witness" part of martyrdom.

I wouldn't call this terrorism. I would call it religiously-induced mass murder.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shahid
So yes, he did this because he was Muslim, but also because he was a despairing Muslim. Suicide is a great sin in Islam; dying in combat for the cause of the ummah is not.

There's a whole lot of hellfire in the Koran, and if you are depressed and struggling with your own behavior, I suppose it is relatively easy to focus on verses like:
http://quod.lib.umich.edu/cgi/k/koran/koran-idx?type=DIV0&byte=114839

[4.74] Therefore let those fight in the way of Allah, who sell this world's life for the hereafter; and whoever fights in the way of Allah, then be he slain or be he victorious, We shall grant him a mighty reward.
[4.75] And what reason have you that you should not fight in the way of Allah and of the weak among the men and the women and the children, (of) those who say: Our Lord! cause us to go forth from this town, whose people are oppressors, and give us from Thee a guardian and give us from Thee a helper.
[4.76] Those who believe fight in the way of Allah, and those who disbelieve fight in the way of the Shaitan. Fight therefore against the friends of the Shaitan; surely the strategy of the Shaitan is weak.
[4.77] Have you not seen those to whom it was said: Withhold your hands, and keep up prayer and pay the poor-rate; but when fighting is prescribed for them, lo! a party of them fear men as they ought to have feared Allah, or (even) with a greater fear, and say: Our Lord! why hast Thou ordained fighting for us? Wherefore didst Thou not grant us a delay to a near end? Say: The provision of this world is short, and the hereafter is better for him who guards (against evil); and you shall not be wronged the husk of a date stone.

http://quod.lib.umich.edu/cgi/k/koran/koran-idx?type=DIV0&byte=282392

[9.111] Surely Allah has bought of the believers their persons and their property for this, that they shall have the garden; they fight in Allah's way, so they slay and are slain; a promise which is binding on Him in the Taurat and the Injeel and the Quran; and who is more faithful to his covenant than Allah? Rejoice therefore in the pledge which you have made; and that is the mighty achievement.
[9.112] They who turn (to Allah), who serve (Him), who praise (Him), who fast, who bow down, who prostrate themselves, who enjoin what is good and forbid what is evil, and who keep the limits of Allah; and give good news to the believers.

http://quod.lib.umich.edu/cgi/k/koran/koran-idx?type=DIV0&byte=874756

61.2] O you who believe! why do you say that which you do not do?
[61.3] It is most hateful to Allah that you should say that which you do not do.
[61.4] Surely Allah loves those who fight in His way in ranks as if they were a firm and compact wall.
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[61.10] O you who believe! shall I lead you to a merchandise which may deliver you from a painful chastisement?
[61.11] You shall believe in Allah and H,is Apostle, and struggle hard in Allah's way with your property and your lives; that is better for you, did you but know!
[61.12] He will forgive you your faults and cause you to enter into gardens, beneath which rivers flow, and goodly dwellings in gardens of perpetuity; that is the mighty achievement;
[61.13] And yet another (blessing) that you love: help from Allah and a victory near at hand; and give good news to the believers.