Why we must call Dylann Roof a Terrorist. (Had he been black or Muslim, that is what he would be called.)

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2015/06/18/1394297/-Why-we-must-call-Dylann-Roof-a-terrorist?detail=emailclassic

What is terrorism if it is not peaceful people worshipping their God who are shot and killed by a gunman they openly allowed into their church?

Dylann Roof, who is now the primary suspect in the Charleston, South Carolina, massacre of nine women and men in the historic Emmanuel AME Church is a terrorist. Call it domestic terrorism if you must, but this man is a terrorist and what he did, pure and simple, was terrorism.

He knowingly and willfully targeted a church full of African American men and women not because he knew them—all indications are that he didn't, but because he wanted to send a message and strike terror into people. This is not a guess. Read this description from someone who was there. He left a witness living so she could tell everyone what happened.

Church members at Emanuel AME were gathered for a prayer meeting when gunfire erupted in the 19th century building. A female survivor told family members that the gunman initially sat down in the church for a while before standing up and opening fire, according to Dot Scott, president of the Charleston NAACP.

The gunman reportedly told the woman that he was letting her live so she could tell everyone else what happened, Scott said.

Mullen confirmed that the shooter was in the church for almost an hour attending the prayer meeting with the group before shooting.