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SB killers ID’d as Syed Farook and Tashfeen Melik, cops search for motive

Dec 3, 2015 7:54 am By Robert Spencer

Syed Farook’s father said of the shooter: “He was very religious. He would go to work, come back, go to pray, come back. He’s Muslim.” The search for the motive continues, as it always does when the killers are Muslim — after all the idea that a believer in the Religion of Peace would commit an act of violence for any reason is inconceivable.

Syed Farook identified

“Suspects identified in San Bernardino shooting that left 14 people dead,” CNNwire, December 3, 2015:

SAN BERNARDINO, California– The two suspects killed in the gunfight with police in the San Bernardino shooting were Syed Farook and Tashfeen Melik, said San Bernardino Police Chief Jarrod Burguan. Some 20 officers were involved in the shootout with the two.

The two suspects killed in the SUV were in a relationship. They were “either boyfriend, girlfriend; husband and wife,” said San Bernardino Police Chief Jarrod Burguan.

“I think that what we have seen and how they were equipped, there had to be some kind of planning in this,” Burguan said. But he added that police still do not know the motive for the shooting.

The shootout with the suspects happened after authorities say they burst into a holiday party at a center for people with developmental disabilities and killed 14 people and wounded 17 others.

Multiple law enforcement sources tell CNN that Farook was an inspector with the county health department, who abruptly left the event at the Inland Regional Center before the shootings.

*More on the center here*

The sources said the residence in Redlands, California, currently surrounded by law enforcement is connected to Farook. It is that house where the chase began that led to the shoot-out with the occupants of the SUV. The sources said that Farook is known to be a U.S. citizen.

Farook’s family has not been able to track him down or his wife since Wednesday morning, said Hussam Ayloush, executive director of CAIR (the Council on American Islamic Relations). Farhan Khan, Farook’s brother-in-law, told reporters, “I have no idea why he would he do something like this. I have absolutely no idea. I am in shock myself.”

Khan said he last talked to Farook a week ago. “I don’t have words to express how sad and how devastated I am,” Khan said.

“We will go where the evidence takes us,” said the Los Angeles FBI Director when asked about the possibility of this shooting being related to terrorism….

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  1. john spielman says

    Dec 3, 2015 at 8:03 am

    ” we will go every where the evidence takes us” Does that include the White House and the Obmanation who sits in the Oval office, for his unrestrained support for islam in whose name this was almost certainly carried out?

    • Jay Boo says

      Dec 3, 2015 at 9:56 am

      Motive —

      Obama praised their motives (loaded their guns)
      1 Cairo Speech
      2 Apology to Islam immediately after the Benghazi attack
      3 Releasing Guantanamo detainees immediately after the Paris attack
      3 Ranting about refugees immediately after the Paris attack

      • Spot On says

        Dec 3, 2015 at 10:10 am

        I am surprised Obama didn’t claim that we have 14 more victims of Global Warming. He and his followers are totally delusional…if not they are criminals.

        • john spielman says

          Dec 3, 2015 at 10:47 am

          more than that, they are traitors

  2. Sam says

    Dec 3, 2015 at 8:09 am

    I am shocked too like his Muslim family, friends at his mosque, his close friends. I am sure he has never expressed his devotion to the religion of peace. He always had good relations with Christians and especially with Jews.

    I guaranty we will be shocked and shocked and shocked until we become dimmies
    Might as well say ALLAH U AKBAR.

  3. Baucent says

    Dec 3, 2015 at 8:09 am

    “We will go where the evidence takes us,” said the Los Angeles FBI Director when asked about the possibility of this shooting being related to terrorism….

    “We will go where the evidence takes us, but we may not ever reveal what we find.”

    The Obama administration will be directing the FBI not to mention the “I-S-L-A-M” word. Let the story fall off the news cycle and then three weeks later announce “no clear motive has been found.”

  4. jewdog says

    Dec 3, 2015 at 8:13 am

    Global Warming strikes again.

    • Hindu American says

      Dec 3, 2015 at 9:23 am

      That’s funny. I guess, instead of calling it “work-place” violence, perhaps this should be blamed as “work-place thirst-related infraction” (you know, muslims are more affected by CA’s water conservation directives).

      Remember the phrase “going postal”? Lets coin a new one – “going Islamic”.

      • jewdog says

        Dec 3, 2015 at 9:27 am

        And when they got thirsty they drank the Kool-Aid.

        • Hindu American says

          Dec 3, 2015 at 9:57 am

          It’s called Zim-Zim cola.

        • Ainu888 says

          Dec 3, 2015 at 11:05 am

          Correction – that would be Zamzam cold.

      • john spielman says

        Dec 3, 2015 at 11:00 am

        it’s called SUDDEN JIHAD SYNDROME( I believe thanks to Robert Spencer)

        • gravenimage says

          Dec 3, 2015 at 7:29 pm

          True, John–except it’s not all that sudden if you spend months corresponding with other Jihadists, taking target practice in your yard, and building IEDs…

  5. Jaladhi says

    Dec 3, 2015 at 8:14 am

    Elephant in the room and nobody wants to see it!! Morons of the country(MSM, leadership, academia) will never say Islam is causing Muslims to kill non-Muslims. They can look and attribute any number of excuses but it will never change the above fact – Muslims kill for Islamic demon Mo/allah!!

    • Raja says

      Dec 3, 2015 at 10:44 am

      Well said Jaladhi,

      The West has been trapped by stupid ideology called Politically correctness in a cruel world dominated by Islamist. THIS IS MODERN DAY SLAVERY and NO ONE /not even God can help such stupid tribe !!!!!!

  6. Always On Watch says

    Dec 3, 2015 at 8:20 am

    Cops still searching for a motive?

    Political correctness just killed 14 people in San Bernardino.

    Many more deaths to come before the West can see the reality! See Einstein’s definition of insanity!

    • Ainu888 says

      Dec 3, 2015 at 11:09 am

      If my co-workers served pork and I had a problem with that, and returned with my spouse brandishing AR-15 rifles, IEDs, tactical gear etc, we would need rocket scientists to guess the motive.

  7. ThisObamaNation says

    Dec 3, 2015 at 8:41 am

    I would have been shocked to find out the shooters were not muslims. I don’t wonder about the motive, it is almost a forgone conclusion.

  8. Ginger says

    Dec 3, 2015 at 8:51 am

    No whining about the ‘inevitable’ backlash against the innocent Muslim ‘community’? Some mistake, surely.

    • gravenimage says

      Dec 3, 2015 at 7:36 pm

      Ginger, we all knew it was coming, and that the wait would not be long:

      “Muslim Americans fear backlash after San Bernardino shooting”

      http://www.inforum.com/news/3895791-muslim-americans-fear-backlash-after-san-bernardino-shooting

      The fake Muslim victim-mongering is utterly predictable in the wake of any Muslim atrocity.

      Notice that not a single one of these Mohammedans expresses even the most perfunctory concern over the Infidel victims.

      • Ginger says

        Dec 4, 2015 at 2:32 am

        Thanks. They never disappoint, do they?

  9. Westman says

    Dec 3, 2015 at 8:56 am

    It’s claimed that: “Winston Churchill once famously observed that Americans will always do the right thing, only after they have tried everything else.”

    This certainly applies to MSM and politicians assigning motives to Islamic terrorism and Islamic militancy. We are waiting for them to realize that the truth can’t be supressed until after the 2016 election.

    https://creepingsharia.files.wordpress.com/2014/12/b5a1a8fiuaes1bb.jpg?w=952&h=636

  10. Jim says

    Dec 3, 2015 at 9:01 am

    The FBI would not even be on the scene conducting a Counterterrorism Investigation if it was just a work place violence incident. The FBI needs to raid the mosque he attended, read his emails, media postings. Anybody that is a contact, friend, religous partner needs to be detained and questioned. Those who did not report Farooks Jihadist beliefs are charged with facilitating terrorism, jail then deportation to a desert in the Middle East. The fact that LE agencies are still being forced to wait on Search Warrants is absurd. Meanwhile the Golfer in Chief goes public saying more gun controls are needed, especially in one of the most gun controlled States.

  11. Kuffar says

    Dec 3, 2015 at 9:18 am

    Motive…???

    They’re muslim scum…

    And they have been told by their “book” that their duty is to “kill the unbelievers when ever you find them…”

    What better place than a Christmas party…

    • john spielman says

      Dec 3, 2015 at 11:02 am

      maybe he felt rejected because No body drew his name for the gift exchange

    • Jay Boo says

      Dec 3, 2015 at 11:12 am

      Workplace Christmas parties have always been essentially secular in nature.
      A simple Christmas tree and donated gifts for needy children is common.
      Most of the food items are not pork based.

      Islam is all about envy, vanity, and resentment.

  12. Laurence says

    Dec 3, 2015 at 9:29 am

    So let me see if I have got this right:

    In Islam if you are religious, especially the more religious you are, you are much more likely to be a public menace; whereas if you are secular, there is a much greater chance and opportunity of you being a healthier and happier human being, and better integrating into civil society and contributing to the common good, and thus are far less likely of being a menace to society.

    As I see it, the best we may hope for is for adherents of Islam to:
    1) completely ignore those parts of its scripture and its other authoritative writings that permit, condone, or command deeds of violence (against Muslim *and* non-Muslim alike)
    2) perform whatever surgical procedure is necessary or gymnastic moves as need be, and interpret those violent writings in such a way that they now only apply in a spiritual sense and are no longer to be taken literally (ever)

    Although for any peaceful approach to be even possibly successful, whatever it might be, there would have to be real change among all Muslims who hold sway, influence, power, and authority within the Middle East itself, and the messages which spring and arise from that part of the world would have to significantly change; and that is not going to happen anytime soon, and likely not anytime later.

    Islam is Islam, nothing more, nothing less.

    • Westman says

      Dec 3, 2015 at 11:38 am

      What’s missing is a “Muslim Jesus” Mahdi to declare the old ways are done and expound some equivalence to the Golden Rule.

      Islam is burdened with unearned supremacy and world ownership claims; a sure road to discord and violence.

    • Carolyne says

      Dec 4, 2015 at 8:53 am

      We also badly need a real change among those Muslims who hold sway, influence, power and authority within our own White House and federal government.

  13. Charli Main says

    Dec 3, 2015 at 9:32 am

    Farhan Khan, Farook’s brother-in-law, told reporters, “I have no idea why he would he do something like this. I have absolutely no idea. I am in shock myself.”

    The usual torrent of verbal diarrhoea pouring out of the mouths of relatives. Will be shortly followed by ” he was always such a lovely, sweet, caring, kind boy who wouldn´t hurt a fly. Why he even loved dogs and Jews”
    Yes, its all going to be the fault of the Kaffirs. His Islamo-rabies virus was activated because he felt disenfranchised and discriminated against.

    • Raja says

      Dec 3, 2015 at 11:02 am

      Charli,

      How long will the relatives of terrorists feign ignorance of the would be activity?

      The Muslim families have a culture of HATE thanks to the Islamic culture and Koran/imams etc.They breed terrorists from a very young age like feeding snakes with milk.They slander about Christianity, secular culture, democracy, freedom, (which is misused by West) and the list is endless. They are brainwashed to be supremacists and to top it all they lie that the terrorist (after heinous crime) was such a nice person.

      This must be the biggest horse shit/ bull shit for mankind to digest BUT Obama and such repackage the same thing and sell it back to us !!!!!!! .

      • Charli Main says

        Dec 3, 2015 at 12:08 pm

        @ Raja
        Just been following this story on MSN ( UK) blog. You would not believe the torrent of abuse hurled at posters commenting on this Muslim terrorist atrocity. We are all vile, bigoted, racist pigs for blaming Islam and its adherents for these murders. We all need to understand the REAL Islam and stop attacking all the poor peace loving Muslims who are living in fear for their lives blah—blah—blah.
        These ignorant Muslim apologists have got their heads so far up their arses, I despair for our future.

    • Westman says

      Dec 3, 2015 at 11:54 am

      Yup. It was never in his mind to commit mayhem. He simply snapped at a Christmas Party, went home and read about tactical gear and weapons, went to the gun shop and bought an assault rifle, ordered the tactical gear online from Amazon for rush drone delivery, and presto!, drove back to the party and shot everyone in sight.

      This guy was a fully prepared Islamic Terrorist in waiting for the right efficient circumstance and trigger.

  14. epistemology says

    Dec 3, 2015 at 9:35 am

    I wonder what kind of evidence they need. The motive is crystal clear. Muzzies on a killing spree. The motive is Islam, stupid

  15. gfmucci says

    Dec 3, 2015 at 10:02 am

    You want a motive, PC media? Here’s a motive: Devout Muslims practicing their Islamic doctrine. More here —> http://www.muccings.blogspot.com/2015/12/no-allahu-akbar-but-it-was-christmas.html

  16. Angemon says

    Dec 3, 2015 at 10:21 am

    “We will go where the evidence takes us,” said the Los Angeles FBI Director when asked about the possibility of this shooting being related to terrorism….

    No, I bet it’s ““We will go where the evidence takes us, asterisk, see footnote”, with the footnote reading “as long as it is terrorism committed by white, heterosexual Christian men”.

  17. Neil Jennison says

    Dec 3, 2015 at 10:29 am

    I see the great Obama is trying to say it is just another of the “madmen doing a mass shooting”.

    Certainly, and all together now you all know the words, “NOTHING TO DO WITH ISLAM”.

    • Myxlplik says

      Dec 3, 2015 at 11:10 am

      That’s why I don’t even have cable TV anymore, I just go with an Internet connection. Nothing anyone says on the enemedia is aimed at the truth, but rather it’s all more agenda based. In this case, the message/agenda is, we need more Muslims & all creeds are equal & they’ll say anything in spite of reality to further the goal, because recent immigrants will almost always vote for the party who gives them the stuff they want, so naturally liberals want a free for all. The free for all gives libs power, while we the people get increased taxes, death by Jihad, and demographic gerrymandering.

  18. wallace says

    Dec 3, 2015 at 11:35 am

    Not a Xmas party, it was a “holiday party

    Not a Xmas party, it was a “holiday party” us dhimmis realy do need to work on our terminology.

    2

    • gravenimage says

      Dec 3, 2015 at 7:40 pm

      Even a “holiday party” is offensive to pious Mohammedans. Not that I believe for a moment that this Jihad atrocity was anything less than pre-planned.

  19. loluLibertards says

    Dec 3, 2015 at 1:05 pm

    Motive = The 1%

  20. Heather says

    Dec 3, 2015 at 3:15 pm

    You want motive? Just watched Youtube called ‘Islam Insanity, Brainwashed little muslim girl, must see original’. Girl is TWO wearing blue headscarf. This is nothing short of child abuse & brainwashing.
    If this is how muslims are brought up, they ALL have a motive. But how does one get through to such people that, from almost birth, are brought up with such hatred & fear. Even if they wanted to question Islam would be too afraid of being killed & knowing that their entire life was based on lies. It’s no wonder they’re mental, angry and have murderous thoughts.

    • Heather says

      Dec 3, 2015 at 3:20 pm

      I forgot to say: I was shocked when I heard about this, that they were ‘3 white guys’. Shocked that it wasn’t a terrorist attack. But not for long, as the news came later on that they were, indeed, muslims.

      • Carolyne says

        Dec 4, 2015 at 8:47 am

        Heather, Doncha know? Muslim men go into a sexual frenzy at the mere sight of female hair-and if it isn’t covered, it’s the female’s fault.

  21. shrugger says

    Dec 4, 2015 at 3:32 am

    Robert, please stop using ‘shooter’ or ‘gunman’. They both gave up their names when they did this.The only proper name when referring to either of them is ‘Murderer’.

  22. Carolyne says

    Dec 4, 2015 at 7:25 am

    The cops need search no further. I think 99% of Americans can tell them the motive for these senseless murder–Islamic Jihad. While they are fiddling, Rome burns. Obama won’t say it and he won’t allow Federal agents to say it. We can say it. Jihad!

  23. gordon miller says

    Dec 5, 2015 at 6:33 am

    Why are the authorities searching so hard for a motive? These two are Muslim terrorists. That’s it.

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