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SB jihad murderer’s father: killer “supported the creation of the Islamic State. He was also obsessed with Israel.”

Dec 6, 2015 11:49 am By Robert Spencer

“Farook declared himself in complete despair and disbelief over what his son allegedly did. His daughters, Rizwan’s sisters, told The New York Times that they had seen no warning signs.” He supported the Islamic State, and they saw no warning signs. Right. The Islamic State has repeatedly called upon Muslims in the U.S. to murder American civilians. The support for the Islamic State in itself should have been seen as a warning sign, if the family members were being honest about how “moderate” they are.

Syed Rizwan Malik

“San Bernardino shooter’s dad: He was ‘obsessed’ with Israel,” by Rossella Tercatin, Times of Israel, December 6, 2015:

Syed Farook, father of San Bernardino terrorist Syed Rizwan Farook, has described his son as negatively “obsessed” with Israel.

In an interview with Italian daily La Stampa, Farook said that he once tried to console his son by promising him that Israel would not exist in another two years because “China, Russia and America will bring the Jews back to Ukraine.”

In Sunday’s La Stampa (link in Italian) report, Farook said, “My son said that he shared [IS leader Abu Bakr] Al Baghdadi’s ideology and supported the creation of the Islamic State. He was also obsessed with Israel.”

“I told him he had to stay calm and be patient because in two years Israel will not exist any more. Geopolitics is changing: Russia, China and America don’t want Jews there any more. 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,” Farook explained to US correspondent Paolo Mastrolilli.

Farook’s son is suspected of carrying out a mass shooting that killed 14 people in San Bernardino. The father was interviewed in Corona, California, where he lives with his older son, Syed Raheel Farook, a US Navy veteran.

Farook senior was born in Pakistan and arrived in the US in 1973. The family has been described by many as very integrated in American society, almost the embodiment of the American dream.

Farook told La Stampa how, once in the US, he got a degree in engineering and started to work hard to guarantee his children “an education and the opportunity to succeed in life.”

Other reports told a more nuanced story: Farook split from his wife Rafia, also Pakistan-born, who filed for divorce in 2006 and, according to The New York Times, said her husband was violent and an alcoholic and beat her and the children.

In the La Stampa interview, Farook denied the accusations, saying that “Rizwan’s mother is very religious, as he was, and they united against me. Once we had a dispute over the historical figure of Jesus. My son called me a godless person and he decided that my marriage with my wife had to end,” he recalled. “They destroyed the family.”

Farook declared himself in complete despair and disbelief over what his son allegedly did. His daughters, Rizwan’s sisters, told The New York Times that they had seen no warning signs.

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  1. Jay Boo says

    Dec 6, 2015 at 12:10 pm

    All about Jerusalem

    Muslims want Jerusalem.
    Muslims worldwide foam at the mouth with desire for Jerusalem.
    By stealing Jerusalem from Christians and Jews Muslims hope they can claim falsely that Islam is a religion too.

    Muhammad was such a thieving buffoon.

  2. Lawrence says

    Dec 6, 2015 at 1:06 pm

    He was obsessed with Israel, and not in a good way. In other words just like Obama, Kerry and liberals in general.

  3. Michael Copeland says

    Dec 6, 2015 at 2:46 pm

    “There were no warning signs”,
    another item to add to the pro-forma template of reaction to jihad.

  4. Michael Copeland says

    Dec 6, 2015 at 2:51 pm

    He went always to the mosque.
    He became more devout.
    He grew his beard.
    He adopted Islamic dress.
    He memorized the Koran.
    He was obsessed by Israel.

    No. No warning signs at all.
    Still baffled.

  5. Angemon says

    Dec 6, 2015 at 2:57 pm

    In Sunday’s La Stampa (link in Italian) report, Farook said, “My son said that he shared [IS leader Abu Bakr] Al Baghdadi’s ideology and supported the creation of the Islamic State. He was also obsessed with Israel.”

    Wasn’t his father “shocked” at what his son did?

  6. RaznCA says

    Dec 6, 2015 at 4:29 pm

    The father of Farook, the killer in CA massacre, who killed in support of ISIS, states his son was obsessed with the desire to see the downfall of ISRAEL…but Farook sisters claim to not notice any warning signs that he could become violent…hmmm…I guess none in his family went over to their home to babysit or visit… oblivious to all the materials to make pipe bombs and see all the weapons? I’m having a serious problem believing their story, especially when there’s a baby involved. Yet neighbors had noticed. Did someone from the Obama administration brief him on his answers? Because it sure sounds like more of the stupid stuff we’ve been hearing from the white house.

  7. Judi says

    Dec 6, 2015 at 6:44 pm

    So…..once again the blame for the shootings rests with Israel, just like 9/11 and numerous other terrorist attacks. Who would the scapegoat be if Israel didn’t exist I wonder?

  8. Aron says

    Dec 7, 2015 at 1:59 am

    CHANGE IN TUNE- DIFFERENT STROKES. FROM- WE CANT BELIEVE HE DID IT…WE KNEW HE WHAT WAS GOING ON HIS HEAD

    http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3348276/Momma-s-boy-Farook-fiercely-religious-conservative-told-dad-shared-ideology-ISIS-wanted-eliminate-Israel.html

    Speaking outside his Californian home, Syed Farook, 67, told the Italian newspaper La Stampa that his 28-year-old son was a ‘momma’s boy’ who had become ‘too shy, conservative and fixated against Israel’.
    Mr Farook also claimed that his son, who died along with his Pakistani-born wife Tashfeen Malik on Wednesday after killing 14 and injuring 21, rarely went to parties with her because he thought no other man should see her dancing.

    Mr Farook added that he tried to argue with his son that opposition to Israel was best done with politics rather than weapons, and became angry with his son after seeing that he had acquired a gun.

    JUST ANGRY HE DIDNT BELIEVE ISRAEL WILL BE WIPED OUT IN 2 YEARS WITHOUT NEED FOR THESE GUNS- AND DIDNT REPORT THIS? WHAT A MODERATE ANTISEMITIST?

    The father also made a bizarre claim to the younger Farook that the Jewish state would not exist in two years because world powers such as the US, China and Russia did not want it and all of the Israelis would move to Ukraine.
    ‘He said he shared the ideology of Al Baghdadi to create an Islamic state, and it was fixed with Israel,’ said Mr Farook.
    He said he did not know for sure if his son was in direct contact with jihadist fighters abroad or in the United States, but said, ‘who knows, with the Internet and all that technology.’

    Yeah…who knows?

  9. François Gravel says

    Dec 7, 2015 at 2:34 am

    The Jooooos made me do it!

  10. Mulakush says

    Dec 7, 2015 at 12:49 pm

    If we had more money put on spying and intelligence activities (by reducing Pentagon Budget and directing it to NSA etc.), we could have spotted Farook and others of his ilk in a timely manner. We need less Pentagon and more NSA.

  11. Twister says

    Dec 7, 2015 at 3:24 pm

    The Christian Bible does say that at the last days, people will be kept blind and that is what we are seeing now. These poor Muslims who think they will earn a perverted Paradise with their actions never question themselves if they might be wrong and whether their actions could lead to an eternity that’s not in Paradise. The only place to change your mind is on this side of eternity.

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