{"id":54744,"date":"2016-06-14T01:12:31","date_gmt":"2016-06-14T01:12:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/nyt_was_orlando_shooter_really_acting_for_isis_for_isis_its_all_the_same\/"},"modified":"2016-06-14T01:12:31","modified_gmt":"2016-06-14T01:12:31","slug":"nyt_was_orlando_shooter_really_acting_for_isis_for_isis_its_all_the_same","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=54744","title":{"rendered":"(NYT) Was Orlando Shooter Really Acting for ISIS? For ISIS, It\u2019s All the Same"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The revelation that the 29-year-old man who opened fire on Sunday in a gay nightclub had dedicated the killing to the Islamic State has prompted a now-familiar question: Was the killer truly acting under orders from the Islamic State, or just seeking publicity and the group\u2019s approval for a personal act of hate?<\/p>\n<p>For the terror planners of the Islamic State, the difference is mostly irrelevant.<\/p>\n<p>Influencing distant attackers to pledge allegiance to the Islamic State and then carry out mass murder has become a core part of the group\u2019s propaganda over the past two years. It is a purposeful blurring of the line between operations that are planned and carried out by the terror group\u2019s core fighters and those carried out by its sympathizers.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2016\/06\/13\/us\/orlando-omar-mateen-isis.html\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The revelation that the 29-year-old man who opened fire on Sunday in a gay nightclub had dedicated the killing to the Islamic State has prompted a now-familiar question: Was the killer truly acting under orders from the Islamic State, or<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=54744\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,40,50,433,209,94,168,129,108,95,148,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-54744","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-economics-politics","category-international-news-commentary","category-social-networking","category-americau-s-a","category-blogging-the-internet","category-ethics-moral-theology","category-psychology","category-religion-culture","category-science-technology","category-terrorism","category-theology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54744","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=54744"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54744\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=54744"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=54744"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=54744"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}