In FrontPage today I show how disquieting it is that this anything-but-moderate family did not attract significant law enforcement attention.
When Syed Rizwan Farook and his wife Tashfeen Malik murdered fourteen people and wounded twenty-one at a holiday party in San Bernardino, California, Farook’s family, having lawyered up, instructed its legal representatives to tell the world how shocked – shocked! – they were by the massacre. However, just as Captain Renault is handed his winnings immediately after telling Rick Blaine of his shock that gambling was going on in Rick’s Café Americain, so also in this case did the family’s shock seem increasingly less genuine the more that became known about them.
Initially, however, the lie was fed easily to a credulous mainstream media. One of the Farook family lawyers, David Chesley, immediately found the nearest microphone and declared: “None of the family members had any idea that this was going to take place. They were totally shocked.”
Even in stories that reported this, however, the story started to unravel. No sooner had the Associated Press quoted Chesley that it noted that he and another Farook family lawyer, Mohammad Abuershaid, said that “Farook’s mother lived with the couple but she stayed upstairs and didn’t notice they had stockpiled 12 pipe bombs and well over 4,500 rounds of ammunition.”
Farook’s mother didn’t notice the twelve pipe bombs and well over 4,500 rounds of ammunition because she “stayed upstairs”? Was she an invalid, then, who never ventured downstairs at all? If so, why did the couple leave their six-month-old daughter in her care when they went off to shoot Infidels for Allah?
And now it has come out that Mom did venture downstairs now and again after all, and that her eye may indeed have caught the site of a stray pipe bomb or two. According to the Daily Mail, “FBI agents found an empty GoPro package, shooting targets and tools inside a car belonging to” Rafia Farook, Syed’s mother. Syed Rizwan Farook and Tashfeen Malik mounted GoPro cameras on their body armor before they began their jihad massacre; apparently, like other jihad killers before them, they hoped to cheer and encourage the faithful with scenes of the bloodbath. Authorities are investigating the possibility that Rafia Farook aided in the planning and preparation of the San Bernardino jihad massacre.
Rafia might have taken this car to meetings of the Islamic Circle of North America (ICNA), of which she was an active member. ICNA openly supports Sharia and the caliphate, and has links to the Muslim Brotherhood, as well as to the Pakistani jihad group Jamaat-e-Islami.
The family’s shock at the murders appears even more feigned in light of revelations from Syed Rizwan Farook’s father, who is also named Syed Farook. The elder Syed has characterized his ex-wife Rafia as “very religious,” like the killer, to whom he referred as Rizwan. “Rizwan was the mama’s boy,” he recounted, “and she is very religious like him. Once we had a dispute about the historical figure of Jesus, my son yelled that I was an unbeliever and decided that marriage with my wife had to end.” The son insisted on the divorce because he considered the father an “unbeliever.”
What’s more, old man Farook said that his son was an open supporter of the Islamic State, and, of course, hated Israel: “He said he shared the ideology of al-Baghdadi to create an Islamic state, and he was obsessed with Israel.” Moderate “unbeliever” Papa then told his son to bide his time since, in the immortal words of Tom Lehrer, everybody hated the Jews: “I kept telling him always: stay calm, be patient, in two years Israel will no longer exist. Geopolitics is changing: Russia, China, America too, nobody wants the Jews there.” Moderate!
So right in the heart of sunny Redlands, California, where Syed Rizwan and Tashfeen lived with their baby and Rafia (however safely ensconced upstairs, away from the pipe bombs, Grandma may have been), there was an open supporter of the Islamic State and an open supporter of the concept of the caliphate. Then we must not forget the winsome Tashfeen, who pledged allegiance to the Islamic State during the attack, was linked to a jihadi mosque in Pakistan, and who had become, in one of her teacher’s words, “a religious person” who often told people “to live according to the teachings of Islam.”
Despite all that and more, Tashfeen passed FBI and DHS background checks and was allowed to enter the United States. And as she and her loving hubby amassed pipe bombs and thousands of rounds of ammunition, authorities didn’t bat an eye. No report has indicated that they were ever questioned, or were under any kind of surveillance, or were on any watch list.
After all, they were just pious Muslims – and anyone who believes that pious Muslims who are assembling pipe bombs might be up to no good is a racist, bigoted Islamophobe, right? But now the Farooks, the modern jihad family, and the fourteen dead left in their wake, stand as a lesson as to how urgently our law enforcement and intelligence operations need to adopt a realistic approach to the jihad threat, and to discard today’s prevailing politically correct fantasies. But the dead bodies are going to have to be piled up much higher for that reform even to become a possibility.

Karl says
Let’s not forget the in-laws! Enrique Marquez who bought assault rifles for the couple was married to the sister of Farook’s brother. He’s shocked so much that he had to check in to a mental hospital.
http://www.foxnews.com/us/2015/12/09/investigators-believe-syed-farook-planned-attack-prior-to-san-bernardino/?intcmp=hpbt1
jihad3tracker says
It took the loss of 14 lives + 21 wounded + their family, friends, local disabled persons forever traumatized + large costs for LEA & site restoration.
BUT WHAT AMERICA NOW HAS IS THE PERFECT EXAMPLE OF A DOMESTIC JIHAD ATTACK — along with pictures of the slaughterers, looking like they could have come right out of a reality-based movie.
Lia Wissing says
What’s become of the GoPro cameras?
jihad3tracker says
I watched the family attorneys’ (one Muslim and one infidel) at the long press conference last week.
It was held in front of the murderers’ garage, a huge mistake, which tells us how smart those guys are. David Chesley, the infidel, described himself as, accurately, a criminal defense attorney.
We can all watch in fascination as the obvious involvement of ALL persons in that family is revealed by the FBI’s increasing evidence trial. Pam Geller describes them as “a cell” — perfect word.
Jay Boo says
a criminal defense attorney
AKA — a criminal offence posing as an attorney
Jay Boo says
“He was obsessed with Israel”
The Leftist enablers have blood on their hands too for feeding the acceptance Jew hatred.
The ancient lands of the Jewish nation did not suddenly appear in 1948.
It began even before the rededication during the second century B.C. of the Second Temple in Jerusalem
Happy Hanukkah
http://www.history.com/topics/holidays/hanukkah
The eight-day Jewish celebration known as Hanukkah or Chanukah commemorates
john spielman says
may GOD bless and protect His inheritance- Israel
john spielman says
time to revoke citizenship on the parents for lying on their citizenship applications and deport the parents and siblings even if born here!
Jay Boo says
Border controls (outrage) — Hijacking their religion (no problem)
Muslims are more offended at Trump than so called ‘hijackers of Islam’
Westman says
“Show me the cameras!” We seem to have “GoProGate” underway. The Police first said the lovely couple were wearing GoPro cameras. Days later, police chief says, there were no cameras. Days later, GoPro packaging is found in Mom’s car.
Someone is lying…
BlueHawK says
Yeah, something smells rotten here! Just like the press running amok in their house – granted, if they hadn’t, we likely would never have learned all the connections they had. Perchance people involved in the in ivestigation knew it’d be hushed up, and let it all be exposed? We can but Hope!
PrayerWarrior says
Robert, I congratulate you for piecing together this picture of the family for us from all the news reports.
I have been following the news as it has dribbled out and was getting an increasing fishy picture of the family. One member had gone straight to CAIR for his first news conference. Always a bad sign.
chrissie01 says
aha, the typical Muslim family:
Nobody knows what the others think – about religion….LOL
Still current, this song:
jihad3tracker says
THANK YOU FOR THAT LEAD ! FUNNY BUT TRAGICALLY TRUE AT THE SAME TIME.
mortimer says
The Farook family are all working for the Muslim Brotherhood in its American front organizations. They are all deceivers. They are all living a lie and so they lie constantly to protect the previous lies they told. How many Muslims are like them? How do we tell the difference between FAROOK-type liars and more honest Muslims? We don’t. The FAROOKS are all PRACTICED LIARS.
Syed Farook junior and his Saudi-educated wife were TYPICAL Muslim youth of our time…MUCH MORE radical than their parents. This is called RADICAL ISLAMIC CHIC…a trend prevalent among Muslim youth.
Angemon says
In leftist logic, this means that GoPro cameras must be banned to prevent further massacres.
Pig Jizya says
Is it just me or does Malik look worse in every subsequent photo that comes out.
Make-up was designed for people like her.
I am anti-Islam, but I still would encourage her to completely cover. Sorry to you feminists if that is politically incorrect. Sue me.
Carolyne says
No, we should sue her for being so unforgivably ugly. But I think that’s basically why Muslimas cover their faces in the first place. They might think themselves “The best of people,” but they sure aren’t the best-looking of people.
rodguy911 says
Perhaps the bigger question will wind up being who was ultimately behind the attack. We know Farook borrowed money from a bank, funneling in 15k to his hear no evil, see no evil, mother which is terror style. Use your enemies assets to do him in and he did. And, we know that the FBI was told to get out of the crime scene in 48 hours. Why would that be with a treasure trove of forensic evidence still to be processed..inquiring minds.
Bigger question still is was the regime behind it all and are they handling many of the events that happen here in the states and was this one that got out of hand.
dlbrand says
Anyone who sees the individuals in the above “family photo” and fails to see in the eyes and faces of that looking back at you enemies of a Non-Islamic nation, is a damned gold plated blind fool.
dlbrand says
America, continue to support your politicians, one and all, Left or Right, if they continue to support the right for the Believer in the way of Muhammad to practice their “religion” in our nation.
And when you do so, you will be supporting and funding those paving the way to the all-too-soon arrived at grave-side of you or your “neighbor’s” mother, sister, brother, child.
dlbrand says
Excellent work, Spencer.
Manuel Franco says
They’re muslims; what else did you expect… They were obv going to deny any involvement and gladness publicly; whilst in actuality being the opposite, or at least passively involved and supportive of everything…
gerard says
Meet the Freaks.
Jim Peters says
We see a very touching portrayal of and ISIS arranged marriage between a fairly handsome Middle Eastern man and a devastatingly ugly female. His rage was no doubt fueled by the experience of removing her veil for the first time. It appears that she was a creation of ISIS sent over here as a weapon. Barry assured us that we need not fear Muslim women and children. Another narrative directed at fools. He speaks nothing but lies.
Michael Collins says
I suspect they were ordered to go that day or they were tipped that they were about to be investigated or arrested…I base that on the police radio traffic about him the week before…possibly someone in the department tipped them?
dlbrand says
“….someone in the department tipped them?”
Indeed. Most probable.
underbed cat says
The FBI left behind a Koran, and possible other books related, at this point it is ridicules to not remove these items as part of motive. Or is the FBI still restricted from gathering religious doctrine …jihad, slaying the infidel …etc…..if so we will learn nothing to prevent any future attacks, in my opinion.