Suruthi
speaker
1,385 appearances
7 recordings
1 series
first heard Apr 2026
last heard 11 Jun
Suruthi’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Firstly, for the very obvious, glamorous, maverick connotations to that phrase.
But also, because when it comes to terror attacks like this, it's deeply misleading.
It suggests that Mateen acted in some sort of silo, like he came up with his own ideology, pulled it out of nowhere, and he just went on a rampage killing people.
He is directly referencing terrorist organisations, so why would he be a lone wolf?
And yes, while they admitted that, of course, he had been radicalized by IS propaganda and radical Islamist material, most likely online, they held fast to the notion that IS hadn't orchestrated the whole thing.
And what does it matter if a specific Islamic State recruiter spoke to Mateen or not?
It wasn't even, like we said, how IS even operated anymore by 2016.
What we're seeing here is a phenomenon that has exploded across the world since September 11th, the rise of the leaderless jihad, a term coined by an author named Mark Sageman in his book Leaderless Jihad.
Before the night of the 12th of June 2016, Omar Mateen posted the following message to Facebook.
America and Russia, stop bombing the Islamic State.
I pledge my allegiance to Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi.
May Allah accept me.
The real Muslims will never accept the filthy ways of the West.
You kill innocent women and children by doing US airstrikes.
Now taste the Islamic State vengeance.
They didn't have to call him and groom him and tell him what to do.
What did he fucking do?
He just bought a gun.
He didn't even build a bomb.
He just bought a gun and went into a club and shot a bunch of people.
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