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ISIS this week claimed responsibility for an attack that authorities now say was perpetrated by a man the terrorist group would ordinarily want to violently murder, not champion.
According to reports, Mohamed Bouhlel, the man who drove a truck into a Bastille Day parade in Nice, killing at least 84 people, was actually bisexual. In a stunning turn of events, ISIS—which ordinarily puts gay and bisexual men to death—apparently did not vet its latest hero before reflexively claiming responsibility for his actions.
Calling Bouhlel a “soldier,” ISIS put out a statement explaining he had responded to “calls to target nations of coalition states that are fighting (Isis).”
There’s no evidence to indicate Bouhlel, who was Muslim, was actually operating on behalf of or in allegiance to ISIS, though friends and family say he had recently become radicalized. But authorities say there is evidence that he lived life openly as a bisexual man.
Cops Say Nice Attacker, Championed by ISIS as a Devout Muslim, Was Bisexual
According to France’s BFMTV, investigators have gleaned that Bouhlel—who left at least 84 people dead in the French city—had a busy sex life, with pictures of both female and male conquests on his phone. Bisexuality, or homosexuality, is forbidden in Islam, although interviews with Bouhlel’s friends and relatives in Nice have revealed that he did not behave, at least until recently, like a devout Muslim.
Nice Attacker Mohamed Bouhlel Was 'Bisexual,' Investigators Say
And I bolded a part for a certain, dense NTer to read. But anyways...this is certainly an interesting turn of events. Self-hatred, much like the Orlando shooter.