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1n Clearly the man was a lone wolf terrorist. Remember 40% of lone wolf terrorists have been diagnosed with mental illness.
pbs.org/wgbh/frontline…
.2n this video of the #ShaheenBagh shooting is extremely revealing. Look how casual the policeman’s stroll is & how close TV cameras are getting to him. Clearly everyone here thought this was a toy gun and the fellow was fooling about
.3n his Facebook footprint is curious. The very first post is on the 11th of October 2019 & then no posts till 6th January 2020. Why? Seems an oddly suspicious Facebook profile created almost like a cry for attention, a desperate appeal for publicity
.4n note the goalpost shifting: muslims turn terrorist because “state alienated”; “army slapped”; “godhra” but here a concerted effort to blame the BJP. Because when a Muslim terrorist attacks, Hindus are responsible & when Hindus terrorists attack, also Hindus are responsible
.5n notice they “pistol” used? It’s a crude home manufactured single shot gun. It’s incapable of inflicting mass casualties. Definitionally therefore this can’t be an act of “TERRORISM” as it requires MASS CASUALTIES
.6n Technically this is not terrorism. He fulfilled only 4 (possibly only 3) of the 5 criteria
1) non state
2) political/religious motivation
3) pre meditation
4) mass targeting
5) multiple casualties
Categories 4 & 5 cant be met with a single shot pistol
.7n note if you want to blame @ianuragthakur & @ashokepandit for this, as some are suggesting, you might as well start blaming Dhruv Rathee as well as @MrsGandhi correctly points out.
.8n since it turns out that Shahdab is a native of baderwah in Kashmir. I’m hoping the press will ask him one simple question: “who was responsible for the KP ethnic cleansing in 1990?” ... let’s see if he’s as unambiguous on that as he is on #CAA_NRC_NPR
.9n Another Facebook account shows a man with severe delusions of himself as Rama & Bhagat Singh. He deserves our compassion. He needs serious mental heath attention immediately. 7.5% of Indians suffer mental health issues but only 4000 experts available
.10n his final few posts show clearly what radicalised him was the communal murder of this gentleman a few years ago. Obviously opportunists will tie it to everything from hindutva to the BJP - everything except why he HIMSELF says he did it

.11n remember Neeraj Ram Prajapati? The Hindu man killed by an anti CAA mob. This wasn’t terrorism? We all know why Rambhakt HURTING Shahdab is bigger news than an Anti CAA mob STONING TO DEATH Neeraj Ram Prajapati
hindi.news18.com/news/jharkhand…
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