The motives of Mohamed Lahouaiej Bouhlel, a Tunisian national aged 31 who rammed his truck in a crowd celebrating Bastille Day leaving 80+ dead and 200+ wounded before being shot dead by police, might not be Islam-related.
He was not documented as a suspect of terrorist activity by either French or Tunisian intelligence, and only had a minor criminal record involving a roadside altercation, a bar brawl and domestic violence.
In fact, he was allegedly not even Muslim, relatives and neighbors said. He did not attend a mosque, did not observe prayers, did not fast during the Ramadan, drank alcohol and ate pork; he was a loner mostly concerned with bodybuilding and salsa dancing, not religious practice.
What surfaced however is that he had been struggling with depression since the early 2000s, was recently engaged in a divorce procedure and was encountering financial difficulties.
The Islamist State nonetheless claimed the attack, as is customary of them whenever some sort of disaster takes place in a country they deem their mortal enemy for being part of the coalition that bombs Islamic State positions in Syria.
Didn't he shout Allahu Ackbar while he was doing it?
Jose Edwards
Well there ya go.
Mohamed wasn't a Muslim. Rly meks thimk
Daniel Myers
They're trying so hard.
Luis Russell
Tell me that if it was a white guy, or a chink. Otherwise, deaf ears my friend. It may not have been organised Islamic terrorism but it was certainly masterminded by an individual indoctrinated with the hate speech spewed by the muslim clerics, calling for Jihad and death the infidels.
Wyatt Brown
Hear out racist !!! He was a peaceful and tolerant muslim who wants to give ice cream to the people.
He lost control of the vehicle due a malfunction with the brakes so obviously this is fault of white men engineering
Jackson Ward
I think that's just become shorthand for, "I'm going to start spraying you with bullets and behead you in the name of my peaceful religion."
