MINNEAPOLIS --- In the aftermath of the attacks on Orlando, Florida, and Nice, France, the media was quick to blame foreign terrorist groups, even though the killers appear to have been troubled loners whose behavior hardly reflected extreme religious ideologies they supposedly supported. Although Daesh (an Arabic acronym for the terrorist
Orlando & Nice Killers Were Troubled Loners With Histories Of Domestic Abuse, Drinking, And No Ties To ISIS
One analyst noted that media outlets quickly labeled the driver in a deadly truck attack in Nice a terrorist, ‘despite the absence of any evidence of a political motivation, or indeed any motive at all.’