Alek Minassian wasn’t an Islamist terrorist radicalized by ISIS: He was a misogynist extremist, inspired by a subculture of woman-hating online groups. But from beginning to end, his modus operandi was the same as that of any terrorist group. It is part of what the Southern Poverty Law center calls the “online male supremacist ecosystem,” where men gather to denigrate and dehumanize women. The SPLC classifies them as hate groups. If he had been indoctrinated by Islamist extremists instead of by a virulently misogynistic incel group, his would have been considered an open-and-shut case.

Source: Huffington Post April 29, 2018 12:56 UTC