Remember the San Bernardino 14
Since Democrats want you to forget
Editor’s note: Last week, following the jihadist shooting of two National Guard troops in Washington DC, President Trump provoked outrage by saying that asylum seekers from certain Third World countries should be banned from coming to our shores. Lloyd Billingsley recalls that it was exactly 10 years ago today that a similar incident provoked then-candidate Trump to argue for a ban on immigration from certain Muslim nations. That incident is seldom recalled now, which is why we think it should be recalled.
—Steve
On December 2, 2015, Syed Farook stepped out of a morning meeting at the Inland Regional Center where he worked as a health inspector. Just before 11, Farook returned with wife Tashfeen Malik, barged into a holiday party and began firing.
The two Muslims shot dead Robert Adams, Isaac Amianos, Bennetta Betbadal, Harry Bowman, Sierra Clayborn, Juan Espinoza, Aurora Godoy, Shannon Johnson, Larry Daniel Kaufman, Damien Meins, Tin Nguyen, Nicholas Thalasinos, Yvette Velasco, and Michael Wetzel. The Muslims wounded more than 20 others before fleeing in a black SUV. After taking down the terrorists, San Bernardino police found a trigger device to detonate bombs Farook planted at the Regional Center. California attorney general at the time was Kamala Harris.
“We must seek justice for those who lost their lives in the recent attacks in Paris and San Bernardino,” said Harris in a December 17 statement but she failed to name a single victim. The dead included blacks, Hispanics and Asians but no word of a hate crime, terrorism or even “gun violence.” Harris also failed to name or condemn mass murderers Syed Farook and Tashfeen Malik, but she did have a beef with those who might criticize them.
“Ultimately,” Harris said, “not only is it immoral and contrary to our values to stoke fear and cast aspersions against an entire faith and the millions of law-abiding American Muslims, but it is also strategically unwise. This very community is a critical ally in the short and long term fight combatting terrorism and radicalization here at home and across the world.” As she had to know, Farook’s mother shredded a map her son made for the attack and Muslim convert Enrique Marquez procured weapons for Farook and Malik.
Harris was joined by officials from the Muslim Public Affairs Council and CAIR, a front for the Muslim Brotherhood, the Islamic Comintern. CAIR’s Los Angeles director, Hussam Ayloush said “Islamophobic and xenophobic rhetoric by certain public figures has made Muslim communities an easy target for hate crimes.” On the other hand, the CAIR mouthpiece said, attorney general Harris, “exemplified leadership” by addressing “the spike in hate crimes against American Muslims and other minorities,” and so on.
In a statement one year later, Harris recalled “those who lost their lives and the loved ones they left behind,” but again named not a single victim. By all indications, Harris attended not a single victim’s funeral and held no events to honor their memory or aid their families.
To paraphrase Walter Sobchak (John Goodman) in The Big Lebowski, this is what happens when Willie Brown’s girlfriend goes into politics. This is what happens when politicians divide the people into oppressed and oppressor groups. This is what happens when support for terrorists exceeds support for their victims, but there’s more to it.
This is what happens when, as at Fort Hood (2009) and the Boston Marathon (2013), the FBI fails to prevent the terrorist attack and plays no role in the takedown of the terrorists. In 2025 moving forward, the struggle against terrorism is the struggle of memory against forgetting.
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The late, great Norm MacDonald well understood, just like the Venn diagram savant, what would be the true kalamity:
"What terrifies me is if ISIS were to detonate a nuclear device and kill 50 million Americans. Imagine the backlash against peaceful Muslims?”
I think we, as a nation, are finally getting past the woke nonsense that has protected the Muslim community for years. None of the atrocities committed could have happened without at least the tacit awareness of what was going to happen on the part of fellow Muslims who remained silent.
What we are seeing has been pointed out by others. We are being invaded and slowly colonized. Bernard Lewis pointed out in one or more of his books that land once held by Muslims becomes, in their minds, permanently Dar al Islam. That leads to enclaves that allow Muslim immigrants to reside without becoming westernized. They can maintain all of the customs of their former homes while using the resources of their new home. They are not Americans, nor are they sharing our heritage of liberal democratic thought. Those concepts are, in fact, totally alien to their religion and culture. They are, indeed, strangers in a strange land, but their belief in the ultimate victory of Islam over the rest of the world keeps them secure. Was it Lenin who said that the capitalist will sell you the rope you use to hang them? I suspect that the Muslims have come to believe the same about all westerners, only we are not selling it. We are giving it to them gratis.