(Jerusalem Post) Yossi Melman - The Orlando terror attack is reminiscent of the terror attacks in Tel Aviv this past year: the New Year's Day Dizengoff shooting, last week's Sarona Market shooting, as well as international terror attacks, including the Brussels airport attack and the Paris shootings. All of these attacks were carried out by young, marginalized Muslims who disagree with Western values, become religious extremists and choose to take matters into their own hands. The Orlando shooter, Omar Mateen, was on an FBI list of people thought to be potentially dangerous. Mateen was on the list not because of the background of his Afghani parents, but due to intelligence information gathered against him. Despite the FBI's investigations, Mateen passed a security course and was licensed to purchase and own guns.
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