How the racist, homophobic, violent, Far-Right Christian evangelizing culture of G4S

may have led Mateen to act as he did.

excerpts from article:

Mateen’s ideological evolution takes us well beyond the banal idea that this was "just another" IS-inspired atrocity.

before his G4S stint, Mateen was not a homophobe.

Ten years ago, according to a former high school friend Samuel King, Mateen “didn’t have an issue with the LGBT community”.

According to Mateen’s ex-wife, Sitora Yusufiy, Mateen became increasingly abusive after they were married in April 2009 – two years after he joined G4S: “He would just come home and start beating me up because the laundry wasn’t finished or something like that.”

The problem is that G4S’s approach to domestic security in the US homeland amounts to a hotbed of routine abuse, sexual violence, extremism and homophobia, tolerated at the highest levels of G4S’s management.

Last October, four G4S security officers filed a religious discrimination lawsuit against the Florida-based firm for firing them when they complained about the extremist, homophobic bigotry of their senior G4S supervisor.

The lawsuit, which demands $3.5 million in damages, says that a G4S kiosk where the guards worked at a shopping centre was managed by “a devoutly Christian supervisor who told employees their gay family members were going to hell, played videos about the Illuminati and warned that the security kiosk could be attacked by demons,” according to a local Portland publication.

The supervisor would post Bible verses on the walls and hold daily "prayer circles" with two other guards as part of a campaign of “fervent evangelising”, according to the court filings.

The FBI had already interviewed Mateen in 2013 and 2014, and even placed him temporarily on a terror watch list, after he had told co-workers about his sympathies with militant or terrorist groups that the agency has not identified publicly.

So around this period, Mateen had suddenly begun to display an increased interest in a belligerent Islamist extremist ideology. By the time he met Gilroy, he had begun praying regularly, bringing his prayer mat to work. But even Gilroy observed that Mateen’s ritualistic religiosity was completely at odds with his behaviour – he would frequently rail against black people, display sexual interest in random women, and openly talk about wanting to kill people.

G4S has not yet provided any clarity as to why it failed to act on these repeated complaints which, at the very least, should have entailed an internal investigation into Mateen’s professional conduct.

It seems difficult to avoid the conclusion, though, that G4S superiors simply did not see Mateen’s sociopathic tendencies as a problem. In much the same way that G4S management decided to protect an extremist Christian homophobic supervisor in Portland, they preferred not to reign in Mateen’s openly homicidal extremism.

G4S’s routine protection of violent, racist tendencies among its security officers appears to be an institutionalised global problem for the government contractor.

Over the last decade, the firm has been beset by scandal after scandal due to allegations and findings of systematic tolerance of astonishing abuse.

Indeed, according to a report by the American Friends Services Committee: “In Florida there have been consistent reports of sexual abuse, use of excessive force, recurring riots, and numerous resulting lawsuits against the company.”

In Malawi, Mozambique and South Africa, among other countries where G4S has security contracts, official complaints under OECD guidelines documented disturbing “testimonies of racial segregation and poverty wages” discriminating against black workers under the company's management.

G4S employees in Britain have been found to routinely engage in racist, misogynist and homophobic banter, and the firm’s child services systematically subjected children to physical abuse often resulting in “life-threatening harm”.

Despite repeatedly voicing to his G4S colleagues his desire to kill people, his sympathy for terrorists, along with racist, homophobic and anti-Semitic views, G4S superiors opted to keep Mateen armed, dangerous and on the payroll.

http://www.middleeasteye.net/columns/how-g4s-incubated-homophobic-hatred-orlando-s-isis-terrorist-451507222

Cops face questions over why it took three hours for SWAT teams to storm Orlando nightclub,

police chief admits officers may have shot some of the VICTIMS

Orlando police are facing questions over why it took three hours for a SWAT team to storm the nightclub where ISIS fanatic Omar Mateen slaughtered 49 people.
As the largest mass shooting in modern U.S. history began to unfold, an off-duty police officer working at a gay nightclub exchanged gunfire with the suspect.
But authorities chose to hold off on letting the tactical units enter Pulse nightclub, where more than 100 people were shot.
Police Chief John Mina has also admitted that some of the victims may have been hit by officers' gun fire.


http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3639596/Did-delay-police-response-shooter-time.html#ixzz4BZrk8sNa

Syrian Kurds condemn Orlando shooting

Syrian Kurdish leaders condemned the Orlando shooting that killed at least 50 civilians and injured 53 more on June 11, and promised to defeat ISIS in Syria.

“We offer our condolence to the American people,” said Ibrahim Kurdo, the foreign affairs head of Kobane. “We feel the same suffering. What happened in Belgium and in France, happened in Kobane,” the Kurdish official told ARA News.

“We are all against this ideology that threatens the whole world and has no border,” he said.

“We are the ones who believe in brotherhood, and that’s why the world should support us in the fight against terrorism. We are resisting this terror group and fight those terrorists at their strongholds,” he added.


http://aranews.net/2016/06/syrian-kurds-strongly-condemn-orlando-shooting-promise-revenge-hitting-isis/

Implications of Orlando shooter being employed by G4S

"The Orlando shooter who massacred 50 partygoers Sunday at a gay night club reportedly learned to handle an assault weapon while employed by Britain's G4S, the world’s largest private security company whose services range from managing jails to protecting golf courses."

http://www.telesurtv.net/english/analysis/4-Reasons-Its-No-Coincidence-Orlando-Shooter-Worked-for-G4S--20160613-0026.html

btw, the false flag fundies are already out in force on this one. sigh... nt

Local LGBTQ Leaders Warn Against Islamophobia

Sunday morning’s horrific mass shooting at an Orlando, Florida LGBTQ nightclub is being met with mourning, outrage, heartbreak and international solidarity, as well as words of caution against the unleashing of further cycles of violence through anti-Muslim and xenophobic incitement.

The Muslim Alliance for Sexual and Gender Diversity, which works to support and empower LGBTQ Muslims, declared in a statement released on Sunday, "This tragedy cannot be neatly categorized as a fight between the LGBTQ community and the Muslim community. As LGBTQ Muslims, we know that there are many of us who are living at the intersections of LGBTQ identities and Islam. At moments like this, we are doubly affected."

http://www.alternet.org/civil-liberties/mourning-and-solidarity-local-lgbtq-leaders-warn-against-islamophobic-incitement

Orlando Shooting Is Likely to Dominate Congressional Agenda

The mass killings in Orlando will overtake events in Washington and dominate Congress this week as lawmakers seek answers and possible responses in the wake of the United States’ deadliest shooting attack.

Public and classified briefings were already being scheduled on Sunday to allow lawmakers and others to hear from law enforcement officials on what happened as well as on whether any links to terrorism contributed to the attack.

Some Orlando victims shot by police?

this is what I have been wondering.
"It was the worst act of terrorism on American soil since Sept. 11, 2001, and the deadliest attack on a gay target in the nation’s history, though officials said it was not clear whether some victims had been accidentally shot by law enforcement officers." http://www.nytimes.com/2016/06/14/us/orlando-shooting.html?_r=0

There is a 3-hour period when the gunman is holding hostages, then police enter, then the death number goes from 20 to 50?

some names are being released on bbc. nt

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I think this stuff about seeing 2 guys kiss as a motivation is ridiculous

The "redeemed" Brian Williams on msnbc has brought it up a couple of times in the few minutes I've been watching.
They should unredeem him.
If someone is angered by seeing something, at the most, maybe they punch them. not saying that is ok.
But they do not go out and shoot up a gay nightclub.
This guy was motivated by radical Islam (IS) is what I am thinking, he thot he would go to heaven for getting rid of what he considered "unclean" people.

And forget all the "mental health" stuff.
Millions of people in the US suffer from anxiety depression and other mental distress.
It is easier to count how many do NOT. It is after all the condition of modern times.

Why is it so difficult to see this guy as in a war, just like people in Iraq who blow up 50-60 people every day?

In the US of course this huge horrible death toll could be prevented thru gun laws.
which won't happen.