Victor Davis Hanson: Terrorist Families See No Evil, Speak No Evil

[Geee]

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Amid all the furor over Islamic terrorism in the United States, a few themes are ignored: the role of friends and family of terrorists, and how well the U.S had treated many of those who went on to kill Americans.

 

Take the family members of Tashfeen Malik and Syed Rizwan Farook, who recently murdered 14 people and wounded 21 in San Bernardino before being killed by police.

 

The New York Times recently contacted Malik's sister in Pakistan, Fehda Malik, who insisted that her sister was not an extremist. "She knew what was right and wrong," Fehda Malik said.

 

The Times then noted of Fehda herself: "In 2011, on the 10th anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks, she posted a remark on Facebook beside a photo of a plane crashing into the World Trade Center that could be interpreted as anti-American."

 

Farook's father gave an interview to the Italian newspaper La Stampa shortly after his son's murderous rampage. He matter-of-factly remarked: "My son said that he shared (Islamic State leader Abu Bakr) al-Baghdadi's ideology and supported the creation of the Islamic State. He was also obsessed with Israel."

[Valin]

They may have opened themselves up to criminal charges of being an accessory before the fact. In particularly Farook's mother Rafia Farook.