A woman is shot, then others who tried to help her. Sounds like a specific targeted killing. Some Turkish media outlets are reporting that she was his brother’s wife. Seems like this may have been some sort of “honor” killing (an oxymoron) as opposed to a “terrorism” incident.
Honor killing IS terrorism, but I take your point.
But I still bet Trump uses it somehow.
Another witness said the attacker was shooting at one woman and then targeted people who tried to help her.
“We heard pop-pop-pop sounds, as though there was a silencer,” the witness, who was identified only as Niels, told the Algemeen Dagblad news outlet. “I felt that he was focusing specifically on someone, because I saw a woman crawling away. Bystanders tried to pull her out, but when they did, the man went after her specially and aimed at the bystanders.”
Counterpose this with Josh’s interview with James McPherson in TPM podcast 48 and the problem of heightened sense of honor in the Antebellum era of the 1840s and 1850s in the US. Failure to stand up for your “honor” makes you look like a wuss in the eyes of your peers. In recent years this guy went around shaming Muslim women for not covering enough with their scarves. Such overblown sense of honor is a sickness. Depicted is the caning of Charles Sumner at his desk in the US Senate.
