When Omar Mateen, a mentally unstable homophobic American killed 49 people in Orlando with guns bought as easily as fries from McDonalds, he found himself with an unlikely soul mate. Mateen had previously been investigated by the FBI for 'terrorist' connections, and had been reported by his ex-wife as violent. His father is believed to have sympathies for the Afghan Taliban. At the same time as the attack, another mentally unstable American, with a reputation for marital rape, fraud, bullying, mafia dealings, racism, bankrupcies, etc and who would be the next American President, was already exploiting similar 'terrorist' attacks for his 'Keep Muslims out of America' campaign. Islamaphobes flocked while ISIS created its own political capital from the attacks. Trump and Islamic extremists like Mateen, have a lot in common. They share the same bigotry, and a belief that any means justifies their end, which is ultimately world dominance - either by an Islamic Caliphate or by Neo-con corporatism. You can take your pick because there's not much difference between either of their unhinged ideologies. They share the same sadistic and misogynistic contempt for women, mind-numbing propaganda, lies, censorship, racism and the curtailment of freedoms as their modus operandi. Their followers seem as half-baked as they are.
Religion may have less of a hold on America, but Trump is busy shaping a replacement cult ideology. Still in its infancy, it probably gives the Islamists a lead in the race, unrestricted as they are by an unwieldy and sham democracy, and only answerable to an ultimate authority with 99 names and who speaks through an outdated best seller that cannot be questioned.
It's a marriage made in heaven on the way to hell. Each partner thinks they are the perfect solution to the other's problems. The enemy is anyone who is not with them, and they both love pointing fingers (or guns) at the unpatriotic/infidel 'other' whipping up fear and distracting from the real cause of the problem - them. They run a system that churns out psycho-maniacs faster than Trump churns out his insane lies. Men of their ilk are spreading like an epidemic - the sooner one appears, than another pops up, either in a suicide vest or on a campaign podium. They have always existed using whatever will serve their insatiable desire for power, propped by the compliant, poor, lost and brainwashed. Islamic and western imperialism has already polarised the world. It's been like this for centuries. Men like Mateen and Trump will do anything to achieve their half-baked ideas which are fed by hatred and a belief In the supremacy of their ideas. What terrifies them most is the intelligence of a united, growing, secular, grassroots movement based on equality, diversity and justice, with love at its core.
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