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  • 2016-06-20 (xsd:date)
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  • Is Orlando Shooting Hero Imran Yousuf a Muslim? (en)
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  • Following the 12 June 2016 mass shooting at the Pulse nightclub in Orlando, Florida, a popular item circulated via Facebook countered widespread reporting about the gunman (and his possible ties to radical Islam) by focusing on the fact that is was a Muslim man who had saved many lives at the scene of the shooting: However, a number of contemporaneous news articles did in fact cover the story of former U.S. Marine Imran Yousuf and his actions during the mass shooting. Marine Corps Times, for example, profiled Yousuf (an engineer equipment electrical systems technician in the Marine Corps from June 2010 to May 2016 ... deployed to Afghanistan in 2011), who was working as a bouncer at Pulse at the time of the shooting incident: A 13 June 2016 Facebook post published by Yousuf (who expressed regret that he couldn't save more lives during the shooting) read as follows: Although it was widely claimed in social media posts that Yousuf is a Muslim, news articles described him as Hindu (not Muslim): The Hindu also correctly noted Yousuf is a Hindu of Indian descent: It's true Imran Yousuf served in the U.S. Marines and has been widely hailed for saving as many as 70 clubgoers during the Orlando shooting, but the aspect of his story that has most intrigued many viewers is not true: Yousuf is Hindu, not Muslim. (en)
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