9 Dead in SC church shooting

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http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/06/18...14126.html

Analysts on Fox News floated the theory on Thursday that the shooting at a historically black church in Charleston, South Carolina, on Wednesday night was motivated by religious animosity toward Christians, rather than by racism.

Host Steve Doocy suggested on "Fox & Friends" that religion was the likely motivation for the terrorist attack.

"Extraordinarily, they called it a hate crime," Doocy said in an interview with a pastor Thursday morning. "And some look at it as, well, it's because it was a white guy, apparently, and a black church. But you made a great point just a moment ago about the hostility toward Christians, and it was in a church, so maybe that's what it was about."

He wore patches supporting apartheid. Also, it is reported that he told a survivor that one of his reasons  for the attack was because he felt that black men rape white women. I think that we are pretty safe saying that the attack was motivated by race.

Totally disgusted at the trying to make it about Christian persecution, I give it about a week until an instance of the gunman quoting bible verses to justify his racism comes out, and then the right wing media's reaction will be to ignore it and pretend it never happened

Quote from a friend of his:

“I never heard him say anything, but just he had that kind of Southern pride, I guess some would say. Strong conservative beliefs,” he said. “He made a lot of racist jokes, but you don’t really take them seriously like that. You don’t really think of it like that.”

But now, “the things he said were kind of not joking,” Mullins added.

I suspect he didn't take the racist jokes so seriously because they're so common