He was put on the watch list again in 2014 after he made contact with a person who later became a suicide bomber. The FBI interviewed Mateen but closed the investigation. He had been on an FBI watch list in 2013 after he made inflammatory remarks to a coworker and stated that he had terrorist ties. We know that the shooter, Omar Mateen, was an American-born Afghani Muslim. The Islamic terrorist attack on the gay nightclub in Orlando has destroyed that narrative. The progressive narrative is that all people are “just like us.” Any differences between different groups of people is the result of racism, colonialism, or bad economic policies.
