Ali told police he had first come into contact with a man called Abu Qatada, whom he believed to be an IS member fighting the Taliban in Afghanistan, while playing online games such as Roblox.
As time went on, it had become increasingly difficult to determine whether other Roblox players were legitimate jihadis or law enforcement agents operating undercover.
He’s a very clear and present danger to himself. Social isolation is a result of environmental - or societal - damage and it can lead you down dark corridors.
No doubt his ethnicity played a role in this, him living in the UK. But it keeps happening and in these cases people defer to racism because it is an easy answer.
For every other right wing terrorist who was qualified as a “lone gunman” or “emotionally unstable”, you have this guy. No doubt he’s being treated in this way because he’s being made an example of.
The mental health & loneliness pandemic only qualifies if you’re white, and even then you get handwaved and marginalized - leading to even more of this kind of behavior.
Then people laugh, cry, shrug and move on with their lives, leaving many to rot - only for the next article to pop up.
“Then just seek therapy” - because it’s just that easy, isn’t it? Everyone has access, right? More handwaving, more marginalization, more buyring the lead.
