Cool social justice story, bro.
“Despite the media’s framing of this as a terrorist attack, we are very clear that this terror is completely homegrown, born from the anti-Black white supremacy, patriarchy and homophobia of [sic] the conservative right and of those who would use religious extremism as a weapon to gain power for the few and take power from the rest.”
Although the Orlando killer had been investigated by the FBI as a possible terror threat, and despite his declaration of allegiance to ISIS during the attack, Black Lives Matter emphatically asserts that, “The enemy is now and has always been the four threats of white supremacy, patriarchy, capitalism, and militarism. These forces and not Islam create terrorism.”
Just in case you thought BLM was anything but a bunch of Marxist grad students...
So do Afghanis now count as white? I suppose they do. So now faced with the threat of Taliban White Supremacy and Al Qaeda White Supremacy.... maybe we can all unite and... nope...
The group repeatedly rejects the notion that Islamic doctrine motivated the murderer. “We will not allow a false narrative of ‘Islamic terrorism’ to be dictated by white supremacists and corporate media.”
Or any notion of the Muslim slave trade in black people.