the point of terrorism is to draw attention to your cause and exact a penalty against your opponent. it's about making a powerful aggressor suffer in unorthodox ways.

the truth is this is the most American and home-grown type of crime you could imagine. There's definitely some weird perception manipulation happening and the usual media propaganda but the crime itself, well, that's just good old american bullshit.

I don't know, I don't think it would be an African American church in that case, they're very aware of the history of oppression of persons of African descent in the Americas and Islam often seeks to make common cause with them. I saw that Clinton is coming out strong in favor of gun control in the wake of this and as Sanders is kind of a second amendment candidate I feel like this is a wedge she might try to use. The biggest reason though, if this was staged, would be as a distraction from the passage of the TPP fast track.