The Farooks are turning out to be quite a crime family, but they were on no one’s radar. That would have been “Islamophobic.”
ICNA is also the group responsible for the billboards that are up all across the country, saying that Muhammad taught peace and women’s rights. Our attempts to put up billboards actually quoting Muhammad saying things to the contrary were, of course, rejected. ICNA also, despite (or perhaps because of) its open support for Sharia and the caliphate, enjoys mainstream access to a degree that counter-jihad groups are never given.
“Shooter’s Mother Active In US Branch Of Pro-Caliphate Islamic Group,” by Chuck Ross, Daily Caller, December 5, 2015:
Rafia Farook, the mother of San Bernardino terrorist Syed Rizwan Farook, is an active member of the Islamic Circle of North America (ICNA), a Muslim organization that promotes the establishment of a caliphate and has ties to a radical Pakistani political group called Jamaat-e-Islami.
Farook’s affiliation with ICNA was revealed on Friday when MSNBC and other new outlets scoured the Farooks’ apartment in Redlands, Cal. An MSNBC reporter found a certificate of appreciation presented to Safia Farook last summer by ICNA’s sisters’ wing.
On Wednesday, Syed Farook and his wife, Tashfeed [sic] Malik, killed 14 people during a holiday party being held for San Bernardino County workers in what the FBI considers a terrorist attack.
Malik reportedly posted a comment to Facebook during the attack stating her allegiance to ISIS. Farook is also believed to have communicated with known terrorists based overseas.
Though ICNA has not been named as a target in the ongoing investigation into Wednesday’s attack, the group has been associated with many others who have engaged in terrorism or plotted to do so.
Al-Qaeda recruiter Anwar al-Awlaki has spoken at the group’s events. He spoke at an ICNA event in Baltimore in 2002, though the group has said that al-Awlaki was not radicalized at that time. Al-Awlaki exchanged emails with Nidal Hasan, the Army major who killed 13 people in a terrorist attack at Fort Hood in Nov. 2009. Al-Awlaki was killed by a U.S. drone strike in 2011 in Yemen.
Another ICNA member was indicted in April on federal terrorism charges. Noelle Valentzas and another woman were charged with plotting an attack on New York City similar to the attacks at the Boston Marathon.
As The Daily Caller uncovered at the time, Velentzas gave presentations at at least two ICNA events in recent years. One of those, ICNA’s 2012 annual convention, was also attended by Indiana Rep. Andre Carson, one of two Muslims in the House of Representatives.
And in 2009, five American students who knew each other from an ICNA mosque in Alexandria, Va. were arrested in Pakistan and charged with plotting to attack American troops in Afghanistan.
Founded in 1968 and is based in Jamaica, N.Y., ICNA is considered one of the more conservative Islamic umbrella organizations operating in the U.S. Unlike other groups like the Islamic Society of North America or the Council on American-Islamic Relations, ICNA segregates men and women at its events, a practice endorsed in the Farook household….

wildjew says
Yep.
Don McKellar says
Now, now. Don’t be so judgemental! Barry bin Obama says we shouldn’t judge and turn this into an anti-Islam backlash! So keep your Yeps to yourself!
PRCS says
Second that Yep.
mortimer says
ICNA spews misogyny and supremacism and the cultural Marxists whitewash it.
PrayerWarrior says
I’ll third that “Yep”.
Also: http://www.nbcnews.com/storyline/san-bernardino-shooting/san-bernardino-shooters-planned-attack-least-year-advance-n476521
“San Bernardino Shooters Practiced for Attack a Year in Advance”
And if you scroll down:
“In Wake of San Bernardino, Sheriffs Urge Residents to Carry Guns”
” Several sheriffs are urging Americans to take the fight against terrorism into their own hands in the wake of the mass shooting in San Bernardino, California.
Sheriffs in New York, Florida and Kentucky are joining a growing chorus asking Americans who are licensed to carry guns to do so.”
Sheriffs? Congratulations Muslim miscreants, you’ve now turned American back into its frontier beginnings and become the new ‘in’juns’ we have to arm ourselves against.
(And my apologies to our peaceful and law-abiding Native Americans for my having to put it that way.)
john spielman says
every muslim is a potential terrorist and murderer for allah/satan because the theology of islam is one of worldly conquest and subjugation and the more violent you become against unbelievers, the more allah/satan rewards you and if you die in battle you get to go straight to the brothel in the sky.
Christianity is different because 1) Christ followers are to “in the world but NOT of the world” and NO one can be forced into Kingdom of God! (Jesus said “no one comes to Me unless the Father draws him” 2)Christ followers do not fight with physical weapons but spiritual ones- ie the “sword of the Spirit, which is the Word of God”. The paradise of God has no drunkenness nor sexual relations for ” we will be like the angels”
Mathew Solo says
“For though we walk in the flesh, we do not war according to the flesh. For the weapons of our warfare are not carnal but mighty in God for pulling down strongholds, casting down arguments and every high thing that exalts itself against the knowledge of God, bringing every thought into captivity to the obedience of Christ.”
(2 Corinthians 10:35).
Having a good conscience, that when they defame you as evildoers, those who revile your good conduct in Christ may be ashamed. For it is better, if it is the will of God, to suffer for doing ;good than for doing evil.
(1 Peter 3: 16-17)
For as many as are led by the Spirit of God…these are sons of God…The Spirit Himself bears witness with our spirit that we are children of God…and if children…then heirs – heirs of God and joint heirs with Christ.”
(Romans 8:14-17).
Mathew Solo says
Putting people in jobs based on hyperbolized need must stop…
Homeland Security is way over staffed with wrong personal and ineffective with wrong perspectives…the executive administrative staff is micro managing all agency efforts…special Interests are involved in influencing opinion of so many issues…while the issues needing attention must wait until an event draws attention to Itself.
This President’s terms in office is ending and who ever gets the office must work with law makers to unravel this Bureaucracy…Give control back to the security apparatus and department heads…and tie all their efforts to achievable goals and results that matter most…and insist that they produce realistic result based on what is achievable…We can significantly reduce the chaos…the cost…and orchestrate coordinated efforts so much better…If we stop trying to re-invent the wheel…stop making changes just for the sake of change…stop the media with special interests from giving undue attention to imagined problems…insist that the media does give rightful attention to national problems that need attention…and help garner support for our national efforts…by giving the public heads-up information on ongoing efforts and how they can support them.
Linda says
What about the Crusaders? What if they gave up their weapons. They couldn’t have defeated the muslims. Wouldn’t the muslims have been able to take over the world then like they are still trying to do this day and age?
dsinc says
Yep.
Dave J says
So ICNA is a treasonous organization and should be broken up, leaders arrested and banned forever.
Why have we not done so already?
Don McKellar says
Have you seen who’s in the White House and giving directives to the FBI and the NSA forbidding them to study Islam or even refer to the enemy by name?
miriamrove says
This is a great question for Obama! m
Wellington says
ICNA, heinous organization though it is, Dave J, is just as entitled to exist under the Constitution as are other heinous organizations and groups, such as the KKK, the Aryan Nation, the Communist Party, etc. However, just as with all freedom-crushing, loser organizations, acting upon certain beliefs held by members, as opposed to just expressing those beliefs, is not protected by the Constitution.
For instance, if you’re a KKK member and think blacks inferior to whites, you have a perfect right to think this and express it publicly, but you can’t lynch a black or even deny a black person to stay at a particular hotel or eat at a particular restaurant.. If you’re a devoted Marxist and think that the upper and middle classes should be violently done away with, which is pure Marxist theory I might add, you have a perfect right in America to state this publicly but you don’t have the right to act upon it. One even has the right under the Constitution to say quite publicly that the Constitution should be done away with and something put in its place, let’s see here, perhaps Islamic law, as Ibrahim Hooper, chief spokesman for CAIR has very openly stated.
But here’s the real problem: organizations and ideologies like the KKK and Neo-Nazism are overwhelmingly looked upon in the negative and hence its members are suspect and deservedly ostracized from American society at large. Hasn’t happened yet to Islam. But it needs to happen.
Don McKellar says
Now, now, let’s not jump to conclusions… this is workplace violence until Barry bin Obama declares otherwise!
somehistory says
And they found things in her car that seem suspicious…including evidence for the GoPro cameras of which some in LE said there was no evidence to support the idea.
But, since there were a number of hours between the mass murders and the shootout, they had time to take the cameras where the video could be loaded to computers for publishing propaganda.
If she had receipts, that lends credence to the report that the terrorists had the cameras. Perhaps this woman played a large part in the attack…perhaps she chose her daughter-in-law.
underbed cat says
So why does MSNBC have a photo of this document but not the FBI, because all counterterrorism has purged against looking for any connections to the MB, Islam and Jihad……so don’t ask any current administration they can’t tell you the truth…..just yet….although I suspect they know.
Baucent says
I’m stunned the FBI either didn’t remove that certificate as evidence to further investigate or possibly didn’t see it as something significant. Just how much do FBI agents actually know about Islam and Jihadist ideology these days?
Mad Max says
The rotten apple doesn’t fall far from the tree………………….give them a one way ticket to Pakistan…………….and why are we paying these MF…………billions in aid every year so they can kill us. Thanks wise leader ………………………….
Champ says
San Bernardino jihad murderer’s mother active member of ICNA, a pro-Sharia, pro-caliphate group
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Shocka!
Wellington says
Like you, Champ, I’m shocked, shocked I say. Truly inexplicable since Islam, as we all know, is a religion of peace and tolerance and the vast majority of Muslims in America are devoted American patriots and would never want to see the Constitution replaced by Sharia as the law of the land. The vast majority of Muslims in America also have nothing but the warmest feelings for Christians and Jews and extend to them the Golden Rule as they do to fellow Muslims. Anyone asserting other than what I have stated here must be, Allah forbid, one of those nasty Islamophobes (truly awful people these Islamophobes, just ignorant and hateful human beings).
Sorry, Champ, just had to go into full sarcasm mode. It does help relieve the antipathy I feel for all of Islam. It serves as a nice outlet from time to time. Hope you and yours are doing well. My God, is Islam awful and messed up or what?
Angemon says
Wellington posted:
“Like you, Champ, I’m shocked, shocked I say. Truly inexplicable since Islam, as we all know, is a religion of peace and tolerance and the vast majority of Muslims in America are devoted American patriots and would never want to see the Constitution replaced by Sharia as the law of the land.”
That makes three of us, Wellington. A muslim committed a terrorist attack or being linked to a terror group who bases its legitimacy on their strict adherence to islamic law? That’s unheard of!
“Sorry, Champ, just had to go into full sarcasm mode. It does help relieve the antipathy I feel for all of Islam. It serves as a nice outlet from time to time.”
I know that feeling too well. I usually end with a “sarc./ off” – an habit I shamelessly copied from gravenimage – because without it, and no matter how blatantly obvious my sarcasm may have been, some cravenly dishonest people wold certainly point out and say I was defending muslims or some crap like that.
gravenimage says
I just hope they don’t give the baby back to the very Muslimah who raised the Jihadist in the first place.
Peggy says
Sadly, the baby will stay where it is.
Raising a child Muslim is not considered child abuse. So now we have the next generation being raised to hate the infidels who killed her parents.
What could possibly be wrong with that?
mortimer says
According to the Leftarded cultural Marxists and their Muslim Brother hood allies…
1) WHITEWASHING ISLAM (lying) = good
2) QUOTING ISLAMIC SOURCE TEXTS ABOUT JIHAD AGAINST DISBELIEVERS = bad
mortimer says
Because of the FAROOK FAMILY’S DEEP INVOLVEMENT in the MUSLIM BROTHERHOOD, it’s no surprise AT ALL that they contacted CAIR when the news broke…the FAROOKS are jihad INSIDERS.
Their complicity and support must have been huge. I expect they will soon leave the United States and resettle in a friendly Islamic state as a reward for participating in jihad.
Earl says
If I draw mustaches on the pics of the 2 Pakistani f**ks, am I phobic?
underbed cat says
Interesting document from a organization created by the MB along with cair.nait, msa, etc….who found it a reporter? Not the FBI hmmmmm, which is exactly the problem. If the Republicans turn to the MB, for national security they must first understand the purpose of the MB, to pave the way for a caliphate in the U.S. it is permissible misdirection found in the koran. taqiyya…so when republicans tear down the leading candidate for “racist, islamaphobia” they show a lack of knowledge as to the religious obligation called hijra, migration to non islamic countries, to conquer by population, jihad
and deception. Turning away from understanding the roots of our enemy is dangerous and will destroy the conservative party and the U.S.
The leader of isis is a islamic scholar….and quotes the koran.
Brandon says
To Mr. Spencer or any other commenter,
What are the best books and/or resources I can get to understand the similarities and differences in belief between Sunnis and Shiites?
Thanks
abad says
Farooks are the west coast Tsarnaevs.
Time to deport them all now.
Matthieu Baudin says
Disgraceful.
Sam says
Islam is a religion of peace. It is also so humble religion that never shows it’s peaceful side. EVER.
More Ham Ed says
“San Bernardino jihad murderer’s mother active member of ICNA, a pro-Sharia, pro-caliphate group”
You won’t see that on Crescent News Network.
gravenimage says
San Bernardino jihad murderer’s mother active member of ICNA, a pro-Sharia, pro-caliphate group
……………………….
Who here is surprised? It is not true that the apple never falls far from the tree–but it is fair to say that it seldom does.
Dustin says
I don’t understand why her son would become a jihadi in such a stable environment. 8/
Liberals invite Moslems who chant ‘Death to America’ to come to America
http://liberalsbackwardsthink.com/2015/12/08/liberals-invite-moslems-who-chant-death-to-america-to-come-to-america/
A billion Muslims can be wrong
http://liberalsbackwardsthink.com/2015/12/07/a-billion-muslims-can-be-wrong/
Delusional Democrats follow Obama into climate change terrorism
http://liberalsbackwardsthink.com/2015/11/30/delusional-democrats-follow-obama-into-climate-change-terrorism/
Dustin says
Liberals invite Moslems who chant ‘Death to America’ to come to America
http://liberalsbackwardsthink.com/2015/12/08/liberals-invite-moslems-who-chant-death-to-america-to-come-to-america/
A billion Muslims can be wrong
http://liberalsbackwardsthink.com/2015/12/07/a-billion-muslims-can-be-wrong/
Delusional Democrats follow Obama into climate change terrorism
http://liberalsbackwardsthink.com/2015/11/30/delusional-democrats-follow-obama-into-climate-change-terrorism/
fouse, gary c says
I wonder if she was at that ICNA charity dinner in Yorba Linda that was sponsored by ICNA a few years ago that we protested. The speakers were Siraj Wahhaj and Amir Abdel Malik Ali