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Originally Posted by tjinaz
I don't think so. Terrorism is usually associated with a political agenda. A hate crime is more religious, ethnic, or gender based. This clearly has religious tones.
the official definition of a hate crime is:
“criminal offense against a person or property motivated in whole or in part by an offender’s bias against a race, religion, disability, ethnic origin or sexual orientation.”
terrorism is defined as
"the use of violence and intimidation in the pursuit of political aims."
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to me this links to a terrorist event. She was inspired by a terrorist group and pledged allegiance to it.
They basically followed the message from I think last year where ISIS was basically saying, you don't need us to plan or help you, go out and shoot people or stab them or pick up a rock and bash their brains in, all in our name.
To me, its terrorism, more then a hate crime.