Obama meets with national security team on Islamic State

Thousands in Orlando and around the world continue to mourn the 49 people killed inside the club as federal investigators examine possible motives for the Mateen who committed the worst mass shooting in modern USA history.

‘He called. He called to just ask how I was doing, say, you know, like everybody else is praying for us, ‘ Scott said. Websites that promote ideologies that encourage terrorist acts should be shut down. The nightmare at the popular gay club began around three hours earlier, just as the bartenders were taking last orders. He attended a mosque, but it’s not clear whether he was especially devout. The horrific recent mass shooting in Orlando is an example; the shooter pledged allegiance to ISIS, giving the group the ability to use non-stop media coverage of the attack as free advertising.

I doubt the families of the 100-plus victims in Orlando see climate change in that same way today. The firm said Mateen had been employed since September 10, 2007, and that G4S was cooperating fully with the investigation. Comey added that he was “highly confident” that Mateen had been radicalized at least in part online and said that fear “is what these savages want”. This is not someone who grew in Pakistan or Saudi Arabia.

Unfortunately, instead of concurring with Trump’s reasonable call for a temporary pause on Muslim immigration from terror hot spots as terrorist attacks around the world increase, Speaker of the House Paul Ryan undercut his fellow Republican, effectively agreeing with the president’s calculation that such a policy isn’t “who we are”. Maybe they confirm, once again, that America is now a center-left country, rather than center-right. Funerals are expected to be held over the next two weeks. The attention after the attack is what it prizes most because it is bait.

His overall goal, Trump said, is to “protect all Americans, of all backgrounds and beliefs, from Radical Islamic Terrorism”. He said that we need to decide what kind of country we are going to be.

Mateen visited Saudi Arabia in 2011 and 2012 for religious pilgrimages, a government spokesman said on Monday.

Obama is arguing that treating Muslim-Americans differently won’t make the US safer. “The American Muslim community has a right to grieve with all of the rest of us and shouldn’t be singled out as being different”. Grindr officials said they “will continue to co-operate with the authorities and do not comment on ongoing investigations”.

Mateen, who worked as a security guard, had apparently been investigated back in 2013 for declaring he was a member of Hezbollah, a Lebanese Shiite militia group, and in 2014 on suspicion of watching videos by Al Qaeda propagandist Anwar Awlaki.

Can you say “liberal projection”? It was an Islamic radical who slaughtered those people – not a deer hunter.

Hamid says Trump’s rhetoric “is actually a stand-in for something darker”. “And stop making it easy for terrorists to buy assault weapons”, Obama said. It generated predictable talk of political “solutions”.

Presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton’s response rating was split, with 36 percent favorable, 34 percent unfavorable and 30 percent of respondents saying they did not know or did not answer.

The very goal of the Orlando attacks was to make us less free as a nation.