We have often discussed how Islamic extremists seem to recruit mentally ill candidates for terrorist operations. What is most unnerving about the history of the couple is that they appeared to be fully functioning and relatively successful people. However, exposure to extreme elements on the Internet and in Saudi Arabia and Pakistan seemed to unleash a deep hate and latent violence within them. If that is now clear is that San Bernardino gunman Syed Farook came from a family and married a woman with extreme views on Jews and Islam. An Italian newspaper interviewed Farook’s father who offered his own bizarre take on the world. In the meantime, more is being learned about the entry of Tashfeen Malik, who married Syed Rizwan Farook after meeting him online and coming to the U.S. on a fiance visa – including this entry photograph.
Syed Farook, who lives in Corona, California, said that he was aware that his son idolized the ISIS leader Abu Bakr Al Baghdadi and embraced the call for an Islamic caliphate. He added that his son “was also obsessed with Israel.”
Now her is the twisted take the father: “I told him he had to stay calm and be patient because in two years Israel will not exist anymore . . . Geopolitics is changing: Russia, China and America don’t want Jews there anymore. They are going to bring the Jews back to Ukraine. What is the point of fighting? We have already done it and we lost. Israel is not to be fought with weapons, but with politics. But he did not listen to me, he was obsessed . . . I told him he had to stay calm and be patient because in two years Israel will not exist anymore.”
The father’s ex-wife and the mother of his children, Rafia, said in divorce papers in 2006 that her then-husband “is mentally ill and is on medication but is also an alcoholic and drinks with the medicine.”
Tashfeen Malik appears equally deranged after being radicalized in religious schools in Pakistan. Malik, 29, was from to a wealthy family in Pakistan’s southern Punjab province that moved to Saudi Arabia. She would later study pharmacology in Pakistan in 2007. She also studied at Al Huda, a chain of religious institutes, on a daily basis. Authorities are focusing on a period from roughly 2007 to 2014 that she spent in her native Pakistan. Officials are probing her ties to an extremist and influential imam in Islamabad at the infamous “Red Mosque.”
The mosque’s infamous cleric, Maulana Abdul Aziz, has generated Islamic extremists from a chain of radical schools. There appears no atrocity that is not beyond the pale for the cleric. He attracted international attention when he refused to denounce the Peshawar school attack that left 148 people dead, including 100 children. Instead, he referred to it as “an understandable response” to the government’s campaign against the Taliban and affiliated groups.
Officials are also interested in a mysterious $28,500 deposit in the couple’s bank account shortly before the attack.
The anti-semitism extremist view alone is not proof that the father was mentally ill.
What many people do not understand is that brainwashing against Israel and America begins from birth. I’ve mentioned before that in Iran, elementary school children open the day chanting “Death to America! Death to Israel!” Even their postage stamps have violent images – burning American flags, bloody Stars of David.
And Iran is not alone. Antisemitism is the norm, not the exception, in the Middle East. It is NOT like the US in the region, and there is NO TOLERANCE. Egypt and Turkey used to be rather cosmopolitan, with a booming tourist trade, but the Arab Spring favored the more organized religious extremists.
It’s very sad, because it’s very difficult to overcome such ingrained prejudice. And then they circulate all those conspiracy theories, like “Israel really was behind 9/11.” There’s just no reasoning with them.
That is why I admire and respect those who are born in the ME, and yet are able to shake off those views when they come here. It’s so much easier to take a modern world view if you are born here. But to see the truth behind the propaganda takes real courage.
Whether this particular incident was due to Islamic extremism or mental illness or a disgruntled employee or all three does not matter. The over reaction of people to the possibility that this was a terrorist attack is insane. How many mass shootings have there been in the recent years in this country? The answer is a lot. How many of those were terrorist related? The answer is few if any. Yet we go insane and demand action against these people because a few of them are crazy. If we applied the same anger towards every group that every mass shooter is related to we would have laws descriminating against everyone in some form based on skin color, national origin, religion, mental status, age, etc. Yet, we won’t take simple steps to keep weapons out of the hands of people who shouldn’t have them. If anything, we are going the other way and making it easier to obtain a gun as seen by Wisconsin removing a short waiting period to buy handguns. We don’t need less regulation, we need more. There are more regulations to operate a vehicle than to operate a gun. It is far too easy to obtain firearms in this country. I don’t want to take away everybodies guns, but there are plenty of people out there who should simply not have them. In the end however, there is just no way to stop each and every one of these incidents, terrorist related or not. Pointing to a single incident and saying that gun laws don’t work is dishonest. You can’t point at incidents that didn’t happen and say gun laws work.
If we are going to go after the extremist wing of the Islamic faith, we need to go after the extremist wings of all religions because they all have them.
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How typical the media rushed to publish their “just like everyone else” narratives before even investigating the facts. Only it turns out both were nuts and their families were nuts. Whoops.
Compare this to Aurora where the media was so anxious to tie the murders to their political enemies they did so wrongly. In each there’s a rush to publish the narrative but the two cases were in the opposite directions: one to exonerate and one to convict. Whatever could explain this conflict?
Now where did smarty-pants Trump get his education? When will Muslims give his non-U.S. businesses the boot?
The more we find out about this couple and their background, the more we see red flags.
Maybe it will take six more terror attacks for Trump’s call for a ban on all Muslim immigration into this country to gain more support. The election is a year away. The terrorists next will hit Germany and some more European countries with bombings and stabbings or whatnot. Then Merkel will be on board. Trump needs to call for “boots on the ground”. Obama needs to resign and let Biden finish out the year. He is from Finland. We are at war. Let’s fight a war. This is a choice not an echo. By the time Trump come into office we will be far behind in the war against ISIL. They have territory, oil fields, trucks, ports, troops on the ground. Bomb, invade, conquor, kill, mame, rape, pillage, burn, puke, destroy and obliterate. Castrate as well.
There was a time in the US when even if you knew someone who had attended a meeting or get together that involved Communists, then you could lose your job, or worse. Farley Mowat, an internationally acclaimed Canadian author and WW2 hero-instrumental in saving tens of thousands of lives in Holland, was denied entrance to the US based on his political views, which were primarily environmental. There are and have been many and varied instances whereby the US has refused entry, targeted, and even jailed people based on perceived threats, regardless of how perverse those perceptions.
The precedent is there to refuse people entrance to the US whether it be well founded or a product of the emotional times. That this woman had attended these religious institutions and other centers that are known to preach to and for fanatics, should have been enough to refuse her entry, if that information had been surfaced before and not after.
Taking Trump as he presents himself is to take a sideshow barker who peppers his rant with certain shared realities. However, Islam is the fanatical religion du jour. Hidden and functioning among the vast majority are thousands of fanatics either having already decided to inflict harm or prime candidates for the role of a suicide bomber. There should be no broad brush when it comes to immigration but each and every applicant who is Islamic, regardless of the passport they carry, must be vetted in greater depth than this killer. Those that are American residents or even citizens who commute to and from these countries must be monitored.
It is a sad state of affairs but it is what it is. Muslims that live peacefully should be allowed the same freedoms and respect afforded all Americans. However, before they arrive, there is an opportunity. When their activity poses questions, there is an opportunity. The US must take every opportunity to intercept these thugs. Obama is absolutely correct. There is no one big move solution, only a relentless addressing of the situation. Unfortunately something like 9/11 or San Bernardino has to happen before the net is tightened, but that is human nature, not politics. Trump is useful but more entertaining. I have too much faith in America for him to be scary.
“Islamic extremists often seem to recruit mentally ill candidates for terrorist operations.”
“Mentally Ill” seems to be those who are not in the mainstream. One could say the same of the US military. Most people have no interest in being paid to kill, maim, torture, and plunder others.
This woman, not being properly vetted, is what makes the Trump screed strike a chord.
It is difficult for many folks to understand sociopaths. The nicer a person, the more difficulty they have wrapping their heads around the evil people like this can perpetrate. So, they are thought to be mentally ill. At an early age I worked in a prison w/ some of the worst sociopaths in this country. I learned quickly, these people aren’t crazy. These people are simply evil. I urge people to watch the superb Showtime documentary, Spymasters. They interview the 12 CIA Directors still living. If only Obama could come to simply say what these people are, Islamic terrorists.
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Farook Sr.’s statement to his son that Israel will not exist in two years is simply a repetition of what Khomeini said recently in the aftermath of the U.S.-Iran Nuclear Arms Agreement. His statement caused a temporary uproar in the press, but clearly the Muslims have taken him at his word.
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Turley’s obsession with “evil” causes him to overlook obvious causal realities. This is the essential mental illness of the US polititical system. Learned people pumping the war machine while pretending to be opposed to violence. The future is bleak.
It is paranoid schizophrenia with spike 4. An obsession with one thing and not a weeny kind of thing but one obsession over getting rid of some person or whatnot.
All religions attract crazy people. But Islam is more suited to the mentally ill who wish to harm others.
Sorry, this mentally ill defense doesn’t wash with me. Some people are simply mean, cruel murderers.. Mental illness has nothing to do with it.
By the way certain members of congress are pretty fanatical, mean and cruel. Are them mentally ill too? Nope, they have made certain decisions about the value of other people and their lives and have decided that most of us don’t matter. Thus, their anti human policies. Mental illness has nothing to do with it.
ever do any banking in the US
you’re all terrorists now
https://www.congress.gov/bill/114th-congress/house-bill/237/text
I’ve seen way too many spy movies to believe anything any more.
Especially, coming out of the MSM.
“Believe none of what you hear, and only half of what you see.” ― Benjamin Franklin
the US is too big to fail.