FBI Told Orlando Shooter's Wife Not to Tell US Media He Was Gay

[MADem]

170. Way to miss the point I was making.

Entirely, too.

Not sure why, but whatever.

I'm not talking about a "gay app." What I said was his mother wouldn't know what it was, what it was for, or anything about it--not that he needed help finding it.

This murderer did not intersect his life in the greater American community--to include the gay community-- with his life in his traditional and conservative religious community, populated with many new immigrants (including his family) from Afghanistan and Pakistan. His traditional family and friends thought he had come out of his difficult and disruptive youth and was doing fine, because he could go out into the greater American community and "pass" in essence--he had a job in law enforcement and NO ACCENT. He was a "success story" to them--but all the while he was living a lie.

He didn't invite his PULSE pals over to the house to break fast during Ramadan, though, did he? He led two lives that were entirely incompatible with one another and could never be reconciled because the teachings of his religion wouldn't have it--he'd have to lose his culture, his family, his mother, siblings, everything, in order to live in a way that was comfortable to him--and all the while, his religion taught him that he could "solve his problem" (those quotes are purposeful) by simply becoming more religious in a "fundamental" (using the word in its original meaning) way. The closer he got to God, the more he'd "fit in" and not be troubled by 'disturbing' thoughts or feelings--that was the promise he was sold. The promise didn't pan out, though.

His very existence was bifurcated and INCOMPATIBLE, and on top of all that he had mental health challenges.

He was a time bomb. This is what Maddow's guest discussed. His analysis is valid and hones in on many issues that are news to Americans who haven't been raised in Muslim cultures that practice a fundamentalist version of Islam.