Tashfeen Malik pledged allegiance to the leader of ISIS just before she and her husband carried out the San Bernardino massacre, law enforcement sources told NBC News.
Malik posted a statement of support for Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi on Facebook "just before the attack," one official familiar with the issue said.
And now investigators are looking into whether the Pakistan-born Malik, who spent most of her childhood in Saudi Arabia, radicalized her husband, Syed Rizwan Farook.
You know if you could direct the sigh of relief from the Right Wing you could blow out a thousand birthday candles.
The FBI is still not saying that this attack was motivated by Islamic terrorism, and seem convinced that it was not part of an international terror plot, but at this point it really doesn't matter.
After all THIS is the kind of terrorism that Americans have been conditioned to accept, and respond to with panic and more calls for government intervention.
The shooters were brown skinned Muslims, with exotic sounding names, and that alone makes them the kind of "other" that allows white America to point the finger of accusation away from themselves.
A point that was not lost on the New York Daily News.
Non-coincidentally the Planned Parenthood shooting has now been relegated to the bottom of the bird cage as this far more digestible terrorist attack soaks up all of the media attention.
Another thing which I am sure is helping the conservatives to breathe a lot easier.
Update: They finally released a photo of the wife, Tashfeen Malik.
How long before some gun clutchin', freedom lovin', tea party Christian patriots decide to shoot up the Daily News or other publications that dare to speak up? You know...kinda like ISIS did at Charlie Hebdo?
ReplyDeleteLike I said before, I bet those families in Colorado Springs are less grief stricken, since the killer their was white and American.
ReplyDeleteI bet there is a conservative study to prove there is less grief when your family is killed by a Christian American. If they are white less grief.
DeleteI read on another blog a theory that may be true, the dating site is the "honeypot" and was how he was recruited and turned.
DeleteThink about it, since 911 all the crazy RW 'rs what is a Muslim guy to do? He turns to a dating site and they have recruited women to turn men that are born here of middle eastern descent. Its makes total sense. And her having a baby, well, she has probably been raped by so many Jihadis she doesn't care, kind of like Bristol. This guy was a perfect citizen until he went to the dating site? The "honeypot". Its the only thing that makes sense. and how they are recruiting homegrown citizens. Oh and the RW are just making it easier with their crazy bigotry towards Muslims.
I am sure Chickenshit Teddie Nugent is on watch lists, but I wish the government could lock his pathetic, smelly ass up. He is a danger to America and he should be held accountable for inciting violence, if anyone is harmed. I wish he would fuck off and die.
ReplyDeleteHe will brag and boast. Sarah will have Track pose with him while they are out shooting her dinner and the meat they store for winter.
DeleteSarah's prop daughter is making her look terrible. Appearances do matter. Esp if you are selling a book or starting a new scam as an evangelist.
DeleteSarah can bring out Trig and make sure she is seen with him and him getting the therapy and attention he needs from a mother.
If she is not up for using Trig, it is a lot more work than she can stomach.
She has to bring out prop Track more.
Track Palin is her best bet.
Who won't love the mother of a soldier that fights for our freedom? She can stand tall with her combat son.
She needs to do something quick, Bristol proves Sarah Palin is a bad mother. All the similar phony pregnancy and shady business with that is killing Sarah.
Her fans and donors are going to want to see her do something and stand with Ted Nugent.
It is no time for Sarah to retreat.
from the pictures of him, don't look like he had much luck with the vagina's of the world, so when one offered him a better deal then his hand.. he was done....the power of the pussy
ReplyDeleteYou are not a deep thinker, are you 2:17? Disgusting comment.
DeleteThe comment is not remotely as disgusting as what was done by the two terrorists.
Delete2:17 PM Are you mimicking Bristol Palin?
DeleteScrew you 2:17.
DeleteWTF? Can't find a nice American girl and get a Saudi who was obviously crazy and made him crazy too? Have a baby even and then leave it to the grands to raise? If I was those grands I'd leave that baby on the steps of a firehouse anonymously as the gene pool is screwed up. What a mess, and what a weak-minded couple of religiously brainwashed people. Sad.
ReplyDeleteThe baby is innocent.
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DeleteI suppose you are a "pro lifer"! The baby has nothing to do with it asshole.
As 2:11 PM said, Gryph, that's the difference that you well stated: "The shooters were brown skinned Muslims, with exotic sounding names, and that alone makes them the kind of 'other' that allows white America to point the finger of accusation away from themselves."
ReplyDeleteYet another mass shooting due to right-wing extremism.
ReplyDeleteSomeone, please tell me the difference between Dylan Roof and Sayeed Farook.
I am so damn sick of religious fanatics. I'm so damn sick of these Middle East religions: Christianity, Judaism, and Islam. What the hell is in that desert region that spawn these crazies.
DeleteBoredom and poverty.
DeleteYou mean South Carolina 2:54?
DeleteSayeed Farook was an American.
Delete2:54 PM Don't be so hard on Mississippi folks.
DeleteFarook did not shoot his mother. Who was the American terrorist that shot his mother?
Delete6:25 - Sandy Hook
DeleteSandy Hook shooter killed 26 people at a school. Interesting family relationships. He needed mental health attention. His mother was into bonding with her child with guns. The father wasn't around.
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He used his mother's Bushmaster XM15-E2S rifle.
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3:43 I caught that. Cracked me right up. Good one.
DeleteThey have Mrs. Farook's photo now.
ReplyDeleteI would also like to see Robert Dear's wife or former wife and study all those interesting facts along with the Farooks.
Here is a story about his girlfriend that was living with him. Apparently she took off with her dogs and hasn't been seen since. Where is the BOLO for her???
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Dears wife/girlfriend didn't participate in the killing. Not the same and not a fair comparison.
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DeleteIt doesn't have to be the same. The Dear family is interesting, like the Farook family situation.
Research and matters of interest do not have to all be identical or same.
It doesn't need to be compared with only same marital situations.
Different family situations can be studied under the umbrella of extremists and violence.
The Uni-bomber was a loner. I have read about his family and situations.
The couple that are today's latest terrorists are unique due to this being a first.
I am also interested in Dear's situations and what makes it different as well as any similarities.
Perhaps back in the 60's there were radical females and a case more similar to the Farooks. I don't know much about the IRA, those terrorist lives went on for years.
" Non-coincidentally the Planned Parenthood shooting has now been relegated to the bottom of the bird cage as this far more digestible terrorist attack soaks up all of the media attention.
ReplyDeleteAww, are you pissed off because your Planned Parenthood narrative has been reduced to birdshit?
Your precious half black Prez got his cherry busted. He can now add an Islamic terror attack to his legacy.
White dudes that fake military service or when young don't go at all during a war have the most hideous legacy of all.
DeleteThey send Americans and others off to fight for their oil and control of others, Americans to die and end up maimed and mentally destroyed for their greed.
Well, I, for one, am pissed off that we won't hear much about the Planned Parenthood shooting.
DeleteAnd Gryphen's comment is true. It's much more uncomfortable for Joe and Jane six-pack to deal with a White, Christian terrorist (whose target the right wing politicians have been railing against using very violent rhetoric) than a good-old fashioned Ay-rab terrorist who hates America.
(What kind of a jack ass refer to the POTUS as half black as if it's some kind of a insult to him or us?)
Always with the sexual comments. Is that you Sarah? Better look over your shoulder, the pox I put on you is right behind you.
DeleteFake Islamic terror attack, you mean.
DeleteHe was an American-born American like you, maybe even a racist like you, so therefore no more a terrorist than Dear- according to the Right Wing.
Hey everyone, we should be honored to be in the presence of an honest-to-goodness-far-right-talibangecal-low-information-voter! (I'm talking about 2:36pm, by the way...)
DeleteMost of us here, I'm sure try to keep our lives well-distanced from that "sort of influence" and while I haven't encountered one in person since I left the deep south 25 years ago, it's always refreshing to hear what they attempt to say. Ah, bless you 2:36pm, your ignorance driven humor gives me life ;-)
fuck you 2:36.
DeleteI don't know if Barbara and George Bush have any unknown skeletons in their closet but I think their boy George is whole white. I don't know that I have ever said or heard anyone mention he is whole white.
DeleteI don't recall any president being referenced as whole white or three quarter white or anything so ridiculous.
Your precious trailer park redneck Mama must be so proud of you, 2:36 PM. You must be the best that she and her brother could create, too bad for her.
Delete5:01 Huge freaking spew!
DeleteIn the presser with the attorney for the Farook family he said that the grandmother lived at the house with her son, wife and baby! The attorney said the grandma stayed upstairs all the time and she didn't know about what was going on. What? What kind of sense does that make? None. He did say the FBI interrogated her for hours and wouldn't release her until the rest of the family came in.
ReplyDeleteThat sounds as bizarre as the wife of the Boston bomber who didn't know what he was doing with pressure cookers and all the rest of his weaponry.
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DeleteAlso bizarre the Uncle that was CIA connected and that was hushed up pretty good.
I have always been curious about the collection of weapons that was so important to Track Palin.
Some think the collection was more important than his child.
Where does he keep it? He is said to live with his parents. Do they know all about his weaponry or do they just think they know?
Angry, violent people like him are protected by the local law. He was violent, inappropriate toward women and many things he could have been arrested for. We will never have a record of his life of violence and crime and he can buy more guns.
Time to investigate the Saudi connection, to these two and the 9/11 terrorists. Are the Saudis too close to the Bush family to be investigated?
ReplyDelete2:36 Go back to C4P with the rest of the racist loons.
ReplyDeleteGee whiz, she is such a hottie. Such a shame. I'll miss her dearly. Get a load of the families lawyers when you get a chance. The motherfuckers.
ReplyDeleteYour comment is stupid.
Delete4:04 PM Not too stupid to get your dumb ass to respond.
DeleteAfter the blowup at the banquet, it wouldn't be hard for the wife to suggest to the husband that they start with his co-workers first.
ReplyDeleteDid she turn him? Yeah. But it probably wasn't hard considering his working environment and the comments made at the banquet. All she had to do was suggest they start there.
Lol. You are all such idiots.
Delete5:17 What are you, Troll?
DeleteI heard another interesting plot.....ISIS is asking females to recruit American husbands, get married to get over here, convert them and do some kind of terrorist shooting like CA. That sounds really plausible to me, leave it up to these individuals to figure out something horrific without calling attention before hand.
ReplyDeleteThis guy obviously went to Saudi for a wife and was perfect for the part...good job for 5 years, well known, liked enough to have a baby shower. There were a few comments made by co workers that he was never the same when he came back from Saudi, but he had a new wife so what would you think; That woman obviously manipulated this pansy ass man into something so evil...I mean having a brand new baby didn't stop them. That to me is inconceivable, but thats just me. I tend to believe this as a trend....random acts done by random people having this deep, deep hatred of this country.
He has a name. Bobby Lynn Box, 44, of Helena, Alabama, is in deep shit over what he’s done.
DeleteThe wife had post partum blues?
DeleteOMG, the dude was unattractive but wow, I can't see him settling for THAT!??!! What sort of powers did that ugly chick have to get him to marry her, much less commit jihad for her. Yuckers!
ReplyDeleteWho the hell cares what he or she looks like?
DeleteThis guy is really attractive he would never have to settle for THAT.
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The bitch had 27 years in which to pledge her allegiance to him, which she did not. She was using his name for her own aggrandizement.
ReplyDeleteNo matter what one's religious beliefs are I cannot fathom the mother of an infant child abandoning him/her (in this case) to go murder a lot of innocent people who are parents just like her. It boggles my mind. In fact, I hope someone has checked and found that she actually gave birth to a baby girl about six months ago.
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Men in various religions abandon children and family for extremist views, also, too.
DeleteThere have always been women and mothers that are cold bitches without nurturing or mothering qualities. Thankfully they are not the norm.
This kind of terror boggles the mind in so many ways.
His family's lawyers on CNN kept saying how the wife was just a housewife and was very quite. They also said that the family had never seen her face because of her face covering. Timid wife one minute and participating killer of 14 in the next.
ReplyDeleteHer home address given when entering the US was not even an actual address. That is scary, to say the least.
They family's lawyers said that getting teased about his beard sent him over the edge. WTF!!!
None of this is adding up to me at all.
I agree, everything about this is strange. I hope it can get sorted out because the more we know about how people become murdering extremists (of any stripes), the better we can prevent, predict, and intervene.
DeleteWell that is probably because you dumbasses are trying to add up everything but the obvious reality.
Delete@5:12 As if you have any idea about reality. Get your head out of your ass, troll.
DeleteAnd the obvious reality is, according to you?
DeleteTed Bundy was a nice Republican. Did the author Rule, who worked with him, know about his brutal murdering side?
DeleteLawyer's are paid to support their clients, how strange is that?
5:12 PM are you too dumbass to know what you are trying to say so you just communicate your in coherency?
The reality, 5:12, is that some people get radicalized and some people don't. So, let's study why and how people get radicalized.
DeleteI have 2 questions
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Good old Mooseland marriage.
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Paranoid White Guy Facing Terrorism Charges After Threatening To Shoot Up A Doctor’s Office
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Shouldn't Ted Nugent be facing the same charges after his public jihad against liberals?
DeleteWoman at Trump Rally Asks Bizarre Question About Whether Refugees Will ‘Remain Celibate’
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One giant step for mankind. Find a way to have all refugees remain celibate. For men you can cut it off, Women you can sew it up. The RW is really onto something with that. Trump is the man to get the job done. I hope he can get to it before he finishes his wall that Mexico will build for him, He is quit the ambassador of the world.
DeleteWell, no one said that teabaggers were very articulate. She probably meant something else but who knows what. It clearly means that the same crowd that fawns over Sarah Palin is showing up for Donald Trump the Chump.
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I suggested in a post 2 days ago that referenced Alex Jones that we would see him suggest that the San Bernardino massacre was a false flag. Welp....here it is: http://www.infowars.com/was-san-bernardino-shooting-a-false-flag/
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Fear begets fear. Stockpiling ammo and weapons is something christian jihadists do also too and yet there are few them considered to be terrorists. The minute.it was reported the San Bernadino killers had thousands of rounds of ammo, i thought there are probably thousands of rightwinger gunnutz who could top those numbers. San Bernadino is terrible as was Sandy Hook, Tucson, the PP killings , etc., etc.
ReplyDeleteThanks GWBush. Cheney, Palin, Fox, Glenn Beck and on and on.
"The Smith & Wesson M&P15 that Farook wielded and Malik's DPMS A-15 were both legal in California despite the state's tough assault weapons ban because they had button mechanisms to release their ammunition magazines. An exception known as the "bullet button loophole" allows rifles that would ordinarily be prohibited to be manufactured and sold if they have the button-release feature, since their magazines are then considered fixed rather than detachable.
ReplyDeleteThe loophole has spawned a cottage industry for gun makers in California, some of whom specialize in specially manufacturing assault-style rifles to comply with state law.
Farook and Malik illegally tampered with the rifles to make their rampage even deadlier, according to Davis. The Smith & Wesson M&P15 had been altered in a failed attempt to make it function like an automatic weapon, she said, while the DPMS A-15 was modified to accommodate 30-round magazines.
The ATF told Reuters that the .223-caliber rifles had the power to penetrate ballistic vests and walls."
In what universe would any of these weapons be considered appropriate for "hunting"?
The 2nd amendment says a WELL REGULATED militia.
Well, we have the most piss poor regulations on this planet. About time we step up and start regulating the hell out of this gun AND AMMO problem.
Won't stop hunters from bagging their deer or moose or whatever as long as they get their tags and hunt during the season.
But it will certainly slow down the whackos and ammosexual freaks. If all we had to worry about were the criminals, that would be a huge step in the right direction.
When I first saw her picture, I noticed the eyebrows and thought," This is someone who was Westernized and became fundamentalist". Notice how much thinner the eyebrows are closer to the bridge of the nose. This is a woman who plucked or waxed her eyebrows and that "unibrow" area but then allowed it to grow back, but it grew back in thinner.
ReplyDeleteAfter hearing how aggressive Farook's coworker Thalasinos was about his anti-Muslim thoughts, I believe this attack was a combination of workplace retaliation and terrorism - that the work meeting was just the first target and only because the Farooks messed up and returned to their house where they were spotted was the rest of the plan prevented. Not that Thalasinos can be blamed, but whether anyone complained or not, a supervisor should have put an end to the religious discussions at work.
Last update, was that really necessary? Double bag her or peel back the body bag. Where were the GOP blaming Bush for 911? I don't get it. They're on every channel apoplectic and in a tizzy that this happened under President Obama's watch, it ain't like every time he tried to do something, it got shut down by the GOP. How about renaming it in honor of the NRA and instead of calling it terrorism, call it domestic patriotism. I trust the President's judgement and reluctance to call it anything until all the facts are out.
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