Texas church shooting leaves many dead (atleast 27).

[setsunatenshi]

Dota2Gamer said:

setsunatenshi said:
                                           

Terrorist acts have the intention of creating political/societal change through the use of violence. A rando shooting up a church/movie theatre/concert for personal reasons is not an act of terrorism.

                               

I agree with this one because it is correct. But I have a question. Let say:

1.  There is a random shooting attack.

2. The shooter is a Muslim

3. But his motives are personal

4. Will he still be labeled as terrorist?

You would need to elaborate on the point 3 for be to answer that.

If he personally feels like he will further the objectives of some sort of clash of civilizations between muslims vs non muslims. Then yes, I would say that's terrorism.

If he personally feels like the upstairs neighbours are too loud and picks up a gun and shoots all of them... well then no... he's just some crazy violent fuck who decided to commit murder. Not a terrorist.