An immigrant of Middle Eastern origin. A gay club. An act of violence aimed at killing or maiming untold dozens of people. Neither the word “Muslim” nor the word “Islam” appears in the Seattle Post-Intelligencer’s report on Musab Masmari’s 2014 arson attack on a Seattle gay club. But there’s a lot that isn’t in that article, including the fact that the arsonist, later arrested with a one-way ticket to Turkey in his pocket, had served as a “cultural ambassador” from the Arabic-speaking world at a conference organized by the U.S. State Department. Assistant U.S. Attorney Todd Greenberg said the Benghazi native was motivated by an “intolerable hate.”
What kind of intolerable hate?
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