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Christmas Party May Have Triggered San Bernardino Terror Attack: Police
abcnews.go.com ^ | Dec.1, 2016 | MEGAN CHRISTIE, RHONDA SCHWARTZ, JOSH MARGOLIN and BRIAN ROSS

Posted on 12/01/2016 10:10:38 AM PST by PROCON

Authorities believe the terror attack on Dec. 2, 2015 in San Bernardino may have been triggered by a mandatory training session and lunch replete with holiday decorations including a Christmas tree which shooter Syed Farook was forced to attend.

Emails discovered by the FBI and police reveal Farook’s wife, Pakistani native Tashfeen Malik, objected to the Christmas setting and was upset her husband had to go.

Just before the attack, Farook had posed with four fellow county employees in front of a Christmas tree in the conference room.

A short time later, 14 people were killed and 22 others injured when Farook and his wife opened fire at the meeting with assault rifles.

“She had essentially made the statement in an online account that she didn’t think that a Muslim should have to participate in a non-Muslim holiday or event,” said San Bernardino police chief Jarrod Burguan in an exclusive interview with ABC News, that aired on the ABC News program Nightline.

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; News/Current Events; US: California
KEYWORDS: christmas; christmas2016; farook; muslims; sanbernardino; sanbernardinoattack; syedfarook; tashfeenmalik; terrorists
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replete with holiday decorations including a Christmas tree..

OMG, CHRISTIAN TERRORISTS made them do it! </media>

1 posted on 12/01/2016 10:10:38 AM PST by PROCON
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To: PROCON

BS....It was just an opportunity for a big, quaranteed kill.


2 posted on 12/01/2016 10:12:37 AM PST by Sacajaweau
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To: PROCON

The Christians are to blame.

I wonder what took them so long? /s


3 posted on 12/01/2016 10:13:35 AM PST by Electric Graffiti (Obama voters killed America. Treat them accordingly.)
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To: PROCON
Then he should have stayed home.

Geeeeez...they have every damn excuse to kill that they can think of...

4 posted on 12/01/2016 10:14:01 AM PST by Sacajaweau
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To: PROCON

May be their stinking cult religion that cause it?

If they’re offended by anything Christian, they’re welcome to take their sorry asses back to their backwards wastelands.


5 posted on 12/01/2016 10:14:20 AM PST by boycott (S)
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To: PROCON
Ahh, I knew it was the fault of the victims, just had to wait for them to spend enough time trying to find a way to spin it right.

I wonder, will Nightline start blaming women for being raped because they have female genitalia?

6 posted on 12/01/2016 10:14:48 AM PST by kingu (Everything starts with slashing the size and scope of the federal government.)
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To: PROCON

Not true. The wife was not seeing the Christmas decorations. They planned this. It came long before Christmas. The party just gave opportunity to get the most victims and that’s it.


7 posted on 12/01/2016 10:15:26 AM PST by poinq
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To: PROCON

So a Christmas tree was the cause instead of the Islamic admonition/obligation to conduct jihad against “infidels”?

Who knew?


8 posted on 12/01/2016 10:15:51 AM PST by House Atreides (Send BOTH Hillary & Bill to prison.)
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To: Sacajaweau

It’s more than just an excuse. it’s an attempt to shift the blame. It’s not the murderer who was at fault here, it’s the evil Christmas-party planners.


9 posted on 12/01/2016 10:15:57 AM PST by Leaning Right (I have already previewed or do not wish to preview this composition.)
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To: PROCON

And a Christmas tree isn’t even really a Christian symbol.


10 posted on 12/01/2016 10:16:01 AM PST by carolinablonde
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To: PROCON

UGH, this crap isn’t even newsworthy


11 posted on 12/01/2016 10:16:21 AM PST by 1Old Pro
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To: PROCON

Foreigners who hate and wish to kill Christians and Jews per their own religious beliefs should not be allowed into America. Commonsense.


12 posted on 12/01/2016 10:16:21 AM PST by Jim Robinson (Resistance to tyrants is obedience to God!)
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Naw, this story doesn’t stink. The guy worked weapons possession, ammunition, ingress and egress, the whole terrorist recipe months in advance in a reaction to a Christmas party? Now, I don’t want anyone to think I’m a cynical sort of feller, but really?


13 posted on 12/01/2016 10:16:23 AM PST by Billthedrill
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To: PROCON
A short time later, 14 people were killed and 22 others injured when Farook and his wife opened fire at the meeting with assault rifles.

What ever happened to the guy in the parking garage?

I remember listening to the police radio on line. They had a helicopter overhead, and dozens of officers advancing — with weapons drawn — through the garage.

Was that all just a false alarm?

14 posted on 12/01/2016 10:16:30 AM PST by Steely Tom ([VOTE FRAUD] == [CIVIL WAR])
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To: PROCON

MERRY CHRISTmas

Trump says we are bringing CHRIST back to CHRISTmas.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k9W-_El6GMc

Suck it up buttercup and get out of the USA!


15 posted on 12/01/2016 10:17:36 AM PST by GailA (Ret. SCPO wife: Merry CHRISTmas, Happy Birthday JESUS CHRIST, suck it up buttercup you lost)
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WE CANNOT WIN by APPEASMENT!

We should not be importing Muslims at all!


16 posted on 12/01/2016 10:17:50 AM PST by marktwain
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To: PROCON

So as soon as they got the Christmas Party invitation they began ordering terrorist materials to kill the party?

No one would believe this.


17 posted on 12/01/2016 10:17:55 AM PST by Beautiful_Gracious_Skies ('45 will be the best ever.)
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So...the attack was, indeed, instigated by the killers’ Islamic faith? Golly.

They could have celebrated diversity.
They could have put up with it.
They could have complained & gotten a waiver.
They could have just not gone.

But as a matter of their faith, in whatever details apply, their response was to violently attack people showing the most tenuous respect for a Christian tenet. (And we’re talking seriously tenuous. Safe to assume there were zero religious images/icons involved, and if there were it was a minuscule fraction of the decorations featuring nothing subjectively more objectionable than snowmen & trees.)

So...it was an Islamic hate crime?


18 posted on 12/01/2016 10:18:18 AM PST by ctdonath2 ("If anyone will not listen to your words, shake the dust from your feet and leave them." - Jesus)
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They saw a Christmas tree and spontaneously went out for an arsenal complete with rifles, pistols, and related tactical gear. Either...

1) They were terrorists who were preparing for an attack and found a gathering worthy of their effort. They shouldn’t have been here.

or

2) There were ordinary muslims who are so concerned about Christian religious symbols that they will commit mass murder when exposed... in which case, they shouldn’t have been here.


19 posted on 12/01/2016 10:19:00 AM PST by pgyanke (Republicans get in trouble when not living up to their principles. Democrats... when they do.)
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apparently there was a arch zionist at work and they used to really go at it - this might have been more of a going postal event than a pure muzzie terror event, but it’s hair splitting to determine the precise motives of a crazed killer


20 posted on 12/01/2016 10:19:06 AM PST by vooch
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