ABC News is reporting that police suspect that the Christmas party itself may have been the trigger for the jihadi attack exactly one year ago today that claimed 14 lives:
This is quite different from the reporting in the LA Times this morning:
Why was the IRC targeted?
Officials said they don’t know for sure.
San Bernardino Police Lt. Mike Madden noted that in 2014, Farook attended another work event in that room, which was decorated for Christmas. Malik later stated in an online account that she felt Muslims should not have to attend Christian events, Madden said.
Madden added that she did not specifically mention the event in her posting and that it’s far from clear that it played any role in last year’s attack.
“It is open to speculation why they chose the party,” he said. “I don’t know if we can say with any certainty why the party was chosen apart from it was a soft target.”
San Bernardino Police Chief Jarrod Burguan agreed.
“There are a lot of questions, and we don’t have all the answers,” he said Thursday. “We never established the motive. The best we can do is theorize.”
I have no doubt that the evil Jihadi Farook and his Muslim mistress from hell Malik were offended by having to attend a Christmas party. But to suggest this was the motive or to suggest we may never know is absurd and shows little to no understanding of Islam and Muslim salvation.
But even more so, if this was the ‘trigger’, then why were they planning this jihad extensively for months?
How extensively did they plan an attack?
Officials believe they planned for months, gathering weapons and building bombs in their garage.
Farook traveled to the Middle East before the attack and came back with his wife. Farook was born in Illinois, but Malik was raised in Pakistan and lived in Saudi Arabia before marrying him. From the beginning, one of the biggest questions was whether the attack was part of a larger international plot hatched by Islamic State or some other Islamic terror group. Malik posted a note on Facebook pledging allegiance to Islamic State shortly after the attack, authorities said.
The FBI concluded fairly quickly that the two were “self-radicalized.” They were inspired by terrorist groups, officials said, but did not receive financial support from any foreign or domestic organizations.
The only thing the Christmas party afforded these Muslim jihadis was that it gathered all these people in one place. They were probably more thankful for it in an evil way than they were offended or ‘triggered’ by it.
But let’s just not let this post be about stupid assumptions by people who refuse to acknowledge the threat of Islam. Let’s remember those who died in the attack (click to enlarge):
