Shooter’s father says son ‘agreed with IS ideology’

One of the suspects in Wednesday’s massacre that killed 14 people in San Bernardino supported the Islamic State and was obsessed with Israel, an Italian newspaper reported Sunday, Dec. 6. They will put them all in Ukraine.

A Pakistan-based relative of Farook, who had met him in the USA, said the gunman started following a stricter interpretation of Islam three to four years ago, and the whole family was anxious about the shift in his character.

Additionally, the father claims Farook was “obsessed with Israel”.

The father did not get along with Farook’s mother. “You can’t beat Israel with armies but with politics”.

Farook, who gave his interview with Italy’s La Stampa Mondo, also said that he tried to calm down his son with a belief that Israel would soon cease to exist because Russia, China and America “don’t want Jews there any more”.

Syed Rizwan Farook’s journey to “radicalization” doesn’t seem so long, if that’s the supposedly non-radical ideology he was getting at home.

“My husband is mentally ill and is on medication but is also an alcoholic and drinks with the medicine”, she said, according to The New York Times.

The elder Farook admits “My son said that he shared al-Baghdadi’s ideology and supported the creation of the Islamic State”.

He said that his younger son had sided against him with Rafia, and that Rizwan had said his parents” marriage must end after an argument about Jesus Christ where the future gunman called his father an “unbeliever’.

The 67-year-old said that he did not know whether his son had contact with terrorist suspects overseas, but said that it was possible with technology.

Farook declared himself in complete despair and disbelief over what his son allegedly did.

Mr Farook blamed officials in Chicago and said that his sons were always named Rizwan and Raheel Farook respectively and not Syed.

The ISIS group – also called ISIL or Daesh – hailed the couple as “soldiers” of its self-proclaimed caliphate in Syria and Iraq.

“All Pakistanis coming from major cities are liberal people”, Syed Farook said.

Indeed the sisters of the deceased Farook have said they do not know why the California health inspector and his Pakistani-born wife committed their violent crime, which is now being investigated as an act of terrorism.

USA correspondent Paolo Mastrolilli asked whether Farook believes his son may have been radicalized by his 29-year-old wife, Tashfeen Malik.

But ISIS’ acknowledgment of Malik and Farook as supporters doesn’t mean they were members or that someone from the group ordered it, said retired Air Force Lt. Col. Rick Francona, a CNN military analyst and a former intelligence officer. Not even covered in that burqa she wore.