San Bernardino Suspect’s Brother-in-Law Speaks at CAIR-Hosted Briefing of

Just days after two Muslims were accused of gunning down 14 people in California, a Reuters/Ipsos poll shows 51 per cent of Americans view Muslims living in the United States the same as any other community, while 14.6 per cent are generally fearful.

In those attacks, officials said Syed Farook, 28, and his wife, Tashfeen Malik, 27, fired 65 to 75 rounds of ammunition during an office party at the Inland Regional Center, a social services provider for people with developmental disabilities.

“The guy who shot in Colorado [The Planned Parenthood shooting], he was left to defend himself, in our case, Muslims, every time somebody does this, he may be mentally ill, we are dragged into it”, Ahmad said. In 2006, Rafia Farook, who records indicate is his mother, filed in a Riverside court for divorce from her husband, also named Syed Farook.

“No one one should say that, because this couple is Muslim, that it led them to commit those acts”, he said. But he said that the “radicalization of Muslim youth is a problem”.

Similarly, those who attended a Riverside mosque, which he reportedly stopped attending two years ago, say they never saw any indication Farook was falling prey to violent extremist ideology or associating with suspicious people.

Kuko recalls Farook that night as being “very much pleased, relaxed, comfortable”, he said.

“I’m not responsible for what that man did or what him and his wife did”. When we lose sight of our fundamental values, we make America a less democratic place for all of us.

“They asked me if I knew this person Syed Farook”, he said.

“The Muslim community stands shoulder to shoulder with our fellow Americans in repudiating any twisted mindset that would claim to justify such sickening acts of violence”, Hussam Ayloush, an executive director at the Council on American-Islamic Relations, said.

CAIR said American Islamic communities everywhere will likely be a scapegoat for people’s anger.

In 2014, the terror outfit had said: “Muslims’ rights are forcibly seized in China, India, Palestine, Somalia, the Arabian Peninsula, the Caucasus, Sham, Egypt, Iraq, Indonesia, Afghanistan, the Philippines, Ahvaz, Iran, Pakistan, Tunisia, Libya, Algeria and Morocco, in the East and in the West”. “We’ve received a lot of death threats”, Ayloush said.

They remember when Farook announced that he would be getting married, saying he had met his future wife online and that she was Pakistani. Everything boils down to, ‘We should fear Muslims.

“Let’s judge communities by their teachings, by their actions as a community as a whole”, he said.

“Many Muslims”, the Post wrote, “said fear of Islam is being fueled by the heated rhetoric of Republican presidential candidates, particularly businessman Donald Trump, who has called for surveillance of some mosques and requiring Muslims to register with the government”.