American Media outlet alters Portuguese translation of sister's comments; cuts out Islamic references

From Eric Dondero:

A 22-paragraph article from AFP today on the shooting in Rio de Janeiro which killed 12 school children and seriously wounded another 18. Not a single word mentioning the shooter Wellington Menezes de Oliveira's Islamic ties or motivations for the shootings. This despite the fact, that Brazlian media across the board headlined Muslim shoots School Children on Friday.

The new spin being pushed by the liberal American media? He was bullied.

From AFP "In Brazil, from bullied student to cold-blooded killer":

The country was struggling to come to grips with how 23-year-old Wellington Menezes de Oliveira, a former student of the school where he committed Thursday's atrocity, could morph from a quiet, solitary person with no criminal record into a suicidal monster.

Menezes de Oliveira's classmates and former teachers said he was routinely bullied at school, rejected and taunted by girls in class, and forced to endure "constant humiliation" including being thrown into a school garbage can, according to Brazilian media.

Fellow students gave him the nasty nickname "Swing," because he walked with a limp, said former classmate Bruno Linhares, who lamented to O Globo newspaper that "the class fool turned into a criminal."

"They called him all kinds of names," said Linhares, 23, who studied with Menezes at Rio's Tasso da Silveira school where the bloodbath took place.

The AFP even goes so far as to selectively translate comments from the perpetrator's sister widely-published in the Brazilian press.

Recently he was looking disheveled, dressing in black and looking at weapons sites on the Web, his older sister Roselaine said.

"We found it odd. He had a long beard (and) said strange things. He spent his time on the Internet, had no friends, was very withdrawn," Roselaine, who last saw her brother seven months ago, told TV Band News.

In the full translation Roselaine said her brother had recently converted to Islam, and was obsessed with looking at Islamic websites.