Seattle Shooting Terrorism?

Andy McCarthy vents about the media coverage of the Seattle shooting, specifically that both the media and the FBI are terming it a hate crime rather than terrorism.

Now, it could not conceivably be more clear that it is terrorism. If the FBI is saying they can't link him to any known terrorist group, that doesn't mean it's not terrorism. It's too early in the investigation to have run down whether the guy has ties to known groups; even if he doesn't, not all terrorism is committed by known groups (sometimes the acts of terror are how we get to know them); and even if he is acting alone, federal law recognizes the concept of lone-wolf terrorism.

It is terrorism because it is a sneak attack — in this case against civilians — which is motivated by a purpose to affect government policy and/or further a political/social/religious cause. The shooter was not there to rob the register or kill someone he knew over some private dispute.

This is militant Islam in action...

Well, we don't know why the guy did it. Ascribing a motive to the shooting simply because he's a Muslim who, by his own apparent words, didn't like Israel is rather premature, not to mention prejudicial.