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Once a Marine.

A Marine veteran who served in Afghanistan is being hailed as a hero for helping scores of people escape from an Orlando nightclub targeted by a terrorist.

When Imran Yousuf, a bouncer at the Pulse nightclub, heard the gunfire break out early Sunday morning, he told CBS News that recognized it immediately.

“You could just tell it was a high caliber,” said Yousuf, a former sergeant who just left the Marine Corps last month. That’s when his Marine Corps training kicked in, he said. He ran toward a locked door that people had huddled around, too terrified to move.

“I’m screaming ‘Open the door! Open the door!’” Yousuf told CBS. “And no one is moving because they are scared.

“There was only one choice — either we all stay there and we all die, or I could take the chance, and I jumped over to open that latch and we got everyone that we can out of there.”

By creating the exit, Yousuf estimated that about 70 people were able to get out of the nightclub safely. Forty-nine people were killed inside the nightclub and another 53 were injured. It was the worst mass shooting in U.S. history, and was carried out by a man who reportedly called 911 to pledge allegiance to the Islamic State group.

“I wish I could’ve saved more,” he told CBS. “…There’s a lot of people that are dead.”

Yousuf served as an engineer equipment electrical systems technician in the Marine Corps from June 2010 to May 2016, according to service officials. He deployed to Afghanistan in 2011.

He was last assigned to 3rd Marine Logistics Group. His military awards include the Navy and Marine Corps Achievement Medal, Sea Service Deployment Ribbon, Korean Defense Service Medal and Afghanistan Campaign Medal.

He’s the hero Orlando’s Pulse nightclub and America needed at the moment- not the one some wish him to be: That is, Muslim.

I’ve read comments from those eager to defend the “slander” against “the religion of peace” by calling him a Muslim who saved 60-70 to counteract the Muslim who took out 49+. Example:

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While there are true Muslim heroes and I do believe most Muslims are not Islamists and jihadis, despite his name, Imran Yousuf is not one of them. He is Hindu.

I think it’s why CBS News made it a point of mention. If he had been Muslim, you’d never hear the end of it from MSM to stress, underscore, highlight, bolden, CAPS LOCK ON, italicize, emphasize, and draw attention to it. I’m sure they’d love to know his sexual orientation as well and make it a point of pride if it serves an agenda, for propaganda.

On his Facebook post:

While he appreciates the support he has received, Yousuf stressed that people should focus on the victims’ families, not him, he wrote.

Since deleted. Apparently he’s trying to ward off all the media attention on him and just wants to move forward.

Thank God for their training and character:

Yousuf is one of several Marines who have saved lives in crisis situations. Marine veteran Nick Koahou played a major role in taking down two terrorists responsible for the December massacre in San Bernardino, California. On June 8, retired Master Sgt. Rodney Buentello lost his life while saving two teenagers from drowning in San Antonio.

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@Greg: I wonder when it was that it was suggested to create any policy based on the assumption that “all Muslims are terrorists”? However, if you have a concern about terrorism right now, where would you go to narrow that search down? Mormons? I don’t thinks so.

Today, while the debate on further pointless and misdirected gun control continues, this administration is goon to release the transcripts of Mateen’s call to the police while committing his act of radical Islamic terror. All references to ISIS and radical Islma is to be redacted so as not to provide ISIS any “propaganda” benefit.

First, that ship has sailed, pardner. Second, that is nothing but a clear and blatant attempt to purge the evidence of the truth (just as the DOJ purged training and intelligence gathering of references to Muslims) in order to reinvent this tragedy into a more politically useful tool.

@Bill:

“In reality”? So, you yourself or someone you know can pull, release and pull again the trigger 13 times a second? This, of course, does not include the time it takes to reload.

This is Greg you’re talking about. He lives in an alternative universe where only what the political left says is “reality.” Regardless of whither any human could possibly pull a trigger that quickly, (not possible in the real-world,) I seriously doubt the barrel of an AR-15 could withstand the hypothetical rate of (semi-automatic) fire Greg envisions.

@Greg:

Apparently there’s no law that prevents someone who has been investigated by the FBI for possible radicalization from buying a assault rifle without additional investigation. Maybe that one would be a useful addition.

Greg seems to have missed AG Lynch’s recent statement that Omar “had a right to be a radical Islamist.” (Noticeably leaving out that he was working for a DHS contractor, was supplied with a gun and a government security clearance.)