On “The View” Monday, an equally vacuous and bizarre program, Raven-Symoné said she did not understand why people were calling the massacre in Orlando a “terror attack” first.
“I consider this a hate crime, then a terrorist act, then horribleness to America in general, but this a hate crime,” Symonè said. “How come other people are making it other things before? It needs to be categorized as a hate crime first.”
The distinction, of course, is that a hate crime refers to a crime against LGBT individuals, while a terror attack is much broader. The distinction is important because Omar Mateen was shot dead at the site, so to call this a hate crime means that there is an end to the carnage. To recognize that this is a terror attack signals that it could be one of many, and the mentally and logic challenged Raven-Symoné should have someone explain to her that designating this as a terror attack signals this could be a pattern rather than a one time event. And in fact, it should also signal that as an Islamic terror attack, it means that the radical Islamic religion could be targeting the LGBT community as a whole. In fact, in many Islamic countries that is exactly the case.
Yes, suppose it was a hate crime. The shooter was a RADICAL ISLAMIST who, BECAUSE of his RELIGION, thought ALL homosexuals were, in his RELIGION’S BELIEF SHOULD BE KILLED, and HATED them.
What a waste!