Of course, there is some very typical and obvious woman-hatred in the lives of all of these terrorists. It’s when pummeling on some God-forsaken broad becomes too boring that these freaks of nature begin shooting into crowds.
Note how the ex-wife is still defending the terrorist even after his death.
Note how the ex-wife is still defending the terrorist even after his death.
I have reread this post several times. I still cannot see that she is “defending” him at all. She is telling terrible things about him. What do you mean, exactly?
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Unstable? Mental illness precludes culpability. If he’s crazy, he’s not guilty.
He beat her for not doing the laundry? So it’s her fault? Her laziness and the laundry made him do it?
This is a typical victim discourse. “I provoked him and he was unstable anyway.”
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She is only relating what she knew of him during their brief marriage.
The ex-wife said her parents intervened when they learned Mateen had assaulted her. Her father confirmed the account and said that the marriage lasted only a few months.
Her parents flew down to Fort Pierce and pulled her out of the house, leaving all her belongings behind. The ex-wife she said never had contact with Mateen again despite attempts by him to reach her….
“They literally saved my life,” she said of her parents.
According to Florida court records, the two formally divorced in 2011.
After learning about what happened in Orlando, she said: “I am still processing. I am definitely lucky.”
That is not a woman who is “defending” him. And I’ve seen too many marriages where people stay officially together to “save face” or because the man is a “good provider”. I know someone who stayed married to her abusive husband who made no money and abused alcohol because her sisters were looking to get married and who would want to marry a girls from a family with divorced women? Her parents wouldn’t have let her come back to them. This woman’s parents got her out quickly.
Honestly, I read that quote about the laundry as describing the pretext for his rages and not “Oh I was so bad I didn’t do the laundry.”
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Yes, it could have been and is often even worse. But the quote I placed in the post is nonetheless tragic and horrifying.
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