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Both San Bernardino jihad murderers pledged allegiance to the Islamic State

Dec 8, 2015 11:48 pm By Robert Spencer

The Islamic State has repeatedly called upon Muslims in the U.S. to murder American civilians. In September 2014, Islamic State spokesman Abu Mohammed al-Adnani published a lengthy piece entitled “Indeed Your Lord Is Ever Watchful,” consisting largely of a call for Muslims to mount jihad attacks in Western countries. Al-Adnani declared:

Kill the disbeliever whether he is civilian or military, for they have the same ruling. Both of them are disbelievers. Both of them are considered to be waging war [the civilian by belonging to a state waging war against the Muslims]. Both of their blood and wealth is legal for you to destroy, for blood does not become illegal or legal to spill by the clothes being worn. The civilian outfit does not make blood illegal to spill, and the military uniform does not make blood legal to spill.

farook_malik“Both San Bernardino attackers pledged allegiance to the Islamic State, officials say,” by Missy Ryan, Adam Goldman, Abby Phillip and Julie Tate, Washington Post, December 8, 2015 (thanks to Pamela Geller):

SAN BERNARDINO, Calif. — Federal authorities believe the Facebook posting from one of the attackers who killed 14 people here last week was made on behalf of both shooters, according to several senior U.S. law enforcement officials.

The Facebook posting said, “We pledge allegiance” to the leader of the Islamic State, using the name Khalifah Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi Al Qurashi, the emir of the self-proclaimed Islamic State. Some of the text in the posting appeared to be garbled, one official said.

This new detail illustrates what federal officials described Monday as the radicalization of both attackers. The FBI investigation continues to explore when the two attackers became adherents to a radical strain of Islam and who may have influenced whom, another law enforcement official said Tuesday.

“It’s looking like they were on the same path at the same time,” that official said….

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Filed Under: American jihadis, Islamic State (aka ISIS, ISIL, Daesh), Jihad in the U.S. Tagged With: Syed Rizwan Farook, Tashfeen Malik


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  1. somehistory says

    Dec 9, 2015 at 1:00 am

    Well, by the recently signed into the immigration thing, no one coming in to be a citizen has to say he will be *loyal* to the State, or and if he/she has been trained in a *religion* or some such before coming.
    There will be more doing the same thing…and maybe some will think it is legal to do so based on the questions they are asked when being allowed in.

    This is no surprise to hear that he, too, felt loyalty to islam’s latest cal i fate. For awhile, he could feel powerful.

    • Michael Copeland says

      Dec 9, 2015 at 3:30 am

      Although “loyal” is not used in The Oath of Allegiance, it states:
      “I will bear true faith and allegiance”.
      Faisal Shahzad from Pakistan swore the Oath.
      It was he who placed the Times Square car-bomb that did not explode.
      “I sweared”, he said, “but I did not mean it.”

      • somehistory says

        Dec 9, 2015 at 11:54 am

        On July 21, the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) announced some “modifications” to the Oath of Allegiance which immigrants must take before becoming naturalized.

        The original oath required incoming citizens to declare that they will “bear arms on behalf of the United States” and “perform noncombatant service in the Armed Forces of the United States” when required by the law.

        Now the USCIS says that “A candidate [to U.S. citizenship] may be eligible to exclude these two clauses based on religious training and belief or a conscientious objection.”

        The new changes further add that new candidates “May be eligible for [additional?] modifications based on religious training and belief, or conscientious objection arising from a deeply held moral or ethical code.”These changes serve incoming Islamic supremacists especially well. For, while Islamic law allows Muslims to feign loyalty to non-Muslim “infidel” authorities, it bans Muslims from living up to the pretense by actually fighting or killing fellow Muslims on behalf of a non-Muslim entity, such as the United States.http://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/259690/obama-alters-us-oath-allegiance-compliance-islamic-raymond-ibrahim

  2. Matthieu Baudin says

    Dec 9, 2015 at 1:01 am

    Allegiance of individuals to any traditional fundamentalist wing of Islam, together with the recently launched terror outfits like ISIS, is a major security concern for any civil society and is incompatible with universal, civilised, standards of human decency. Fundamentalist Islam condones violence against unbelievers and the sooner our opinion leaders wake up to this fact the sooner they’ll make themselves useful.

  3. Michael Copeland says

    Dec 9, 2015 at 3:44 am

    What is the difference between Islam and a “radical strain of Islam”?
    The four Washington Post journalists seem convinced there is one.
    Could they ask themselves this question?
    Better still, could they answer it?
    Here is a tip: the word “radical” is from the Latin “radix”, a root.
    The root teachings, or, to change the metaphor, the doctrines that express the “core”, the “heart”, of a matter are radical. They are the “fundamental” elements without which the subject ceases to be itself. “Radicals” and “fundamentalists” are those best informed about their their subject. They are the experts.

  4. Jim Peters says

    Dec 9, 2015 at 7:33 am

    What angers me the most is that all these “findings” after the fact were in clear evidence before the attack. Stop immigration of Muslims, get rid of the Jihadis that are here already. All of this will take time, but the time to start is now.

  5. berq says

    Dec 9, 2015 at 7:59 am

    jim,you Americans have elected the Obama the deceiver how you can rid off Muslims from America.

  6. Oppressaphobe says

    Dec 9, 2015 at 8:27 am

    Oh how surprised I am to hear that HE was also RADICALIZED!

    First of all, why has it been so important to know WHO was RADICALIZED?

    Secondly, why were they so quick to blame the woman? You can believe they had a reason to blame her for his radicalization. Obviously they are RETICENT to prosecute ANY OF THE FAMILY. So that would be their reason for saying, Oh this was a:

    perfectly regular muslim family living in San Bernardino, working to the government, lived in a nice house, drove a lexus, etc…

    AND THEN…SHE came along and RADICALIZED this poor man, who by the way got picked on all the time by his right-wing co-workers (many THAT’S why he snapped “we don’t know yet”)

    Thirdly, where did this term RADICALIZED even come from. This is something cooked up by the government to SEPERATE the good from the bad Muslims.

    All muslims aren’t dangerous (they are only dangerous when the saturation point is reached so let’s keep bringing them in by the millions).

    The term RADICALIZED is just used to say that Islam is a religion of PEACE.

    But where is the line between Islam and RADICALIZATION?

    Does anybody know? Does anybody care? It’s all good for the government because when somebody does something wrong, then they have become RADICALIZED. But one hour before:

    oh they were just a normal American muslim. Was the sister saying that he was hiding his identity–he had two identities and we KNEW NOTHING about this RADICAL SIDE.

    Well, the wrappers in the car of the mother might say differently. But have we held her? Oh but no, she has not yet become RADICALIZED.so the government has no allegiance to the American people to detain her, of course.

    So this system of RATIONALIZATION BY TERMINOLOGY that our government is using has killed a bunch of us and cost us enormous amounts of resources.

    Is the government not capable of being PRO ACTIVE, like we have to do to survive everyday?
    Why is our expectation so low.

    There should be an investigation by congress of HOW THIS HAPPENED IN THE FIRST PLACE.

    BUT, NO, LETS JUST TAKE AWAY DONALD TRUMPS RIGHT TO GO TO FLORIDA. LET’S DENY HIM HIS RIGHT AS AN AMERICAN CITIZEN BECAUSE HE

    DARED TO SUGGEST WHAT IS TRUE.

    He is the only one that suggested that the mother should be looked at.!!! Because he is the only one that has not been BOUGHT OFF.

  7. VetnTruck says

    Dec 9, 2015 at 8:29 am

    The politicos and newsies just keep repeating ‘islam is the religion of peace’ mantra, hope the suicide vests, beheading cleavers, pressure cooker bombs and cars (crashed into crowds) are banned by Obama and Ilk. Looking at the photo of these DEMENTED murderers, I’ll be glad when we have a NEW LEADER OF THE FREE WORLD who will take courage enough to STOP the refugee resettlement programs, STOP VISAS from mid-east countries – for 100 years when maybe this war islam has for 1,400 years MAY or MAY NOT be over. Guess starving them out would be the next thing. NO GRAIN shipments until the koran is burned to a crisp and imans and clerics and their other hate preachers teaching this hate book are also tossed on the pyre.

  8. Angemon says

    Dec 9, 2015 at 9:47 am

    Both San Bernardino attackers pledged allegiance to the Islamic State, officials say

    So… workplace violence?

  9. Oppressaphobe says

    Dec 10, 2015 at 8:57 am

    Only ten comments on this article?

    I don’t believe that, there are usually 100 on an article like this.

    Why are the articles being taken down prematurely?

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