Sure enough, Ft. Lauderdale airport shooter had converted to radical Islam years ago

[Coyote]

This piece of filth is a certified not job who should be stood up in front of a wall and shot dead. But you can't blame the Muslims for this one.

He is clearly mentally ill...

Why do you say that?

From what the FBI reported, he was hospitalized, his family have said things as have his friends.

So, according to you, being a jihadi requires mental illness?

Where did you get that from? Look at what I wrote.

 

[Tilly]

This piece of filth is a certified not job who should be stood up in front of a wall and shot dead. But you can't blame the Muslims for this one.

He is clearly mentally ill...

Why do you say that?

...But after a brief hospitalization for a mental examination, Santiago was released and on Dec. 8 was allowed to collect his handgun, which law enforcement had confiscated.....

From Depotoo link. Doesn't sound like they diagnosed mental illness, or at least not to a degree that indicated he was a danger.

 

[Tilly]

This piece of filth is a certified not job who should be stood up in front of a wall and shot dead. But you can't blame the Muslims for this one.

He is clearly mentally ill...

Why do you say that?

From what the FBI reported, he was hospitalized, his family have said things as have his friends.

So, according to you, being a jihadi requires mental illness?

It seems to be a new fashion now that within hours of these types of attack, all we hear are claims the perps are mentally ill. Anything but Islamic terrorism.

 

[Coyote]

The military has been in hot water over it's handling of mental illness and PTSD in returning veterans for some time, including long delays in diagnosis and treatment.

Why did he come here? Why did he shoot? A mysterious journey in airport tragedy

ANCHORAGE, Alaska

Four days after an Army reservist shot and killed five people at Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport, federal authorities say they have thus far found no evidence that he was involved in ISIS or any form of radical Islam.

Esteban Santiago, the 26-year-old gunman, had connections to New York, Puerto Rico, Southwest Florida and Alaska, but it remains a mystery why he picked Fort Lauderdale to carry out his attack.

Family members say that Santiago, a decorated U.S. soldier, unsuccessfully sought help for his mental problems upon his return from Iraq in 2011, shortly after two of his fellow reservists were killed in a roadside bombing.

...The dearth of details about the investigation and of Santiago’s past has created an information void that has fueled rumors. Among them: that Santiago created an Arabic name when he was 17 and became a radicalized terrorist who posted emails, video propaganda and Muslim songs on Jihadi forums.

The ideas were first posted by a controversial conservative blogger in California and then spread by Judicial Watch, a conservative watchdog group that successfully sued to make Hillary Clinton’s emails public during the presidential campaign. A Fort Lauderdale businessman was roused by the incendiary posts, penning a letter to Fort Lauderdale’s mayor and others, claiming — the same as Judicial Watch — that there is a conspiracy by the mainstream media and federal, state and local authorities to cover up Santiago’s terrorist leanings.

But FBI agents scrubbing Santiago’s social-media sites have found nothing to indicate he was an Islamic convert inspired by terrorist organizations, according to law enforcement sources familiar with the investigation.​

 

[Coyote]

It's extremely hard to hospitalize an adult against his/her will. They have to be clearly a danger to themselves or others. Not being committed long term doesn't indicate the person is not mentally ill. I think in this case, when you connect the dots between various accounts - he is mentally ill. They've also found no indication of any sort of Islamic ties or that he converted to Islam. It wasn't long after he was identified that the FBI spoke about his coming to them claiming that the government was forcing him to watch ISIS propoganda. That started the talk of mental illness.