When it comes to Muslim terrorism, the official trope is that “it’s always mental illness until you find a video of him pledging allegiance to ISIS” and even then there’s some wriggle room.
Little surprise then that the media is trying to sell the “he was just sad” angle to explain why Rahmanullah Lakanwal traveled from Washington State to D.C. and then ambushed and shot and killed two members of the National Guard.
Suspect in National Guard attack struggled with ‘dark isolation’ as community raised concerns – AP
Uh-huh. Dark isolation. So he wore all black, listened to heavy metal and wrote bad poetry?
Rahmanullah Lakanwal may have behaved in an unstable manner, but there’s no metric for stable behavior for Afghans compared to Americans due to cultural differences.
The Afghan Muslim terrorist didn’t just lash out. He had a plan. He traveled across the country to D.C., someplace where he knew he would find members of the National Guard (especially because the media has taken to extensively reporting on their location in great detail) and murdered two of them in cold blood.
That’s not what you do when you have the ‘sads’. That’s not sadness or mental illness. It’s terrorism. By a guy from a country where terrorism is the leading national export after drugs.
The cover-up is really not going to work.
