Arizona: ‘Practicing Muslim’ migrant murders two outside Tucson gay bar, his note indicating ‘hate’ of homosexuals

This is being investigated as a “hate crime,” but not as a jihad attack. Law enforcement officials have no category for jihad attacks. They do not exist. Yet they keep on happening, in the U.S. and elsewhere, and the longer authorities ignore their ideological roots, the more serious the problem will get.

The only piece that doesn’t fit is the fact that Ousman Ceesay killed himself. He may have expected that police would kill him, and was hoping that Allah would still accept him as a martyr for murdering the two Infidels. Or there could be some other explanation. But we will never know, because will not pursue this question, being unaware of its significance.

“Tucson gunman’s cousin says he never heard anti-gay sentiments from him,” by Emily Bregel, Tucson.com, September 3, 2026 (thanks to The Religion of Peace):

A cousin of Ousman Ceesay, the man police say killed two people outside a Tucson gay bar before shooting himself, said he never heard anti-gay sentiments from Ceesay, despite his growing up in a country that criminalizes homosexuality.

“We don’t talk about those things here, because you hardly see it,” Muhammad Sylva, 44, told the Arizona Daily Star Wednesday. He said he and his cousin Ceesay grew up in the same household in the West African nation of The Gambia, and they remained close after Ceesay moved to the U.S. around 2010.

The topic of homosexuality, or opposition to it, never came up with Ceesay when they were young, nor in the years after Ceesay moved to the U.S. to attend college, said Sylva, in a Wednesday phone call from The Gambia, where Ceesay’s family still lives.

“Ousman doesn’t have the time to talk about hating people. Throughout our conversations, through the 17 years he spent in the U.S., he doesn’t talk about that,” Sylva said.

Tucson police say Ceesay was carrying a list of LGBTQIA+ associated businesses at the time he fatally shot Vincent Anthony Siqueiros, 42, and Cameron Davis Capara, 33, in the parking lot of Venture-N, a long-standing gay bar on North Sixth Avenue.

Police are investigating the Aug. 31 shooting as a hate crime. A search warrant served on Ceesay’s home Monday afternoon turned up a note indicating “hate toward the LGBTQIA+ community,” Tucson police said. Police said Tuesday that Ceesay had no prior connection to the victims, who died at the scene early Monday morning. Ceesay died later at the hospital, after also shooting himself, police say.

Due to the shame associated with homosexuality in The Gambia, gay people hide their sexuality, so it’s unusual to hear much about the topic, Sylva said.

“Here, we have two religions. We have Christians and we have Muslims living here,” Sylva said. “Both faiths here don’t accept homosexuality. So if you’re doing it here, you hide it. … It’s not something we talk about.”

Ceesay was a practicing Muslim who often prayed five times a day and participated in fasts, Sylva said. But Ceesay’s faith was not “extreme,” he said….