It was inevitable. When cornered with conclusive evidence of wrongdoing, guilty parties point at the accuser.
Once leaders who desperately wished to avoid any possible mention that Islamic terrorism was what led the husband and wife terror team who committed the San Bernardino massacre, they had to pivot and point at the United States (or Israel).
And now it has happened.
Reports began surfacing early on Friday, Dec. 4, that Tashfeen Malik, the female half of the murderous couple, had pledged allegiance on Facebook, using an alias, to the leader (“caliph”) of ISIS, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi. According to ISIS lore, believers shouldn’t die in a state of disobedience & should swear allegiance before death. Sounds like they had a plan.
Although those social media postings have been deleted, national media said a government source had provided the information. CBS News confirmed the report, based on government sources.
The best reason to believe that the SB murderers were tied to ISIS is factual is the response to it by the Council on American Islamic Relations (CAIR).
At 4:34 a.m. local time on Friday Hussam Ayloush, the executive director of CAIR, tweeted out that he was headed to San Bernardino for a CNN interview. He included that the victims of the “shooting” are in his prayers.
Several hours later, a Fox Business source sent a startling message: “The executive director of CAIR… has just said that the U.S. is partly responsible for ISIS,” a Fox Business production team account.
Many people will find it hard to believe any public figure would say something like that, at least in public.
But Hussam Ayloush, the executive director of the Council on American Islamic Relations, blames American foreign policy for the global terrorism of ISIS and other terrorist organizations. He says during a live interview, the video is below, that some of American policies have fueled the extremism that led to ISIS. As examples, he points to U.S. support for Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi.
Ayloush obviously preferred the ousted president Mohammad Morsi, who was a leader in the Muslim Brotherhood and was ousted in a coup d’état in 2013.
Ayloush said Americans and the West support “dictatorships, repressive regimes around the world and that pushes people over the edge, then they become extremists, they become terrorists – we are partially responsible.”
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But justifying terrorist attacks is never okay. And once a nation has become accustomed to hearing its leaders do it, it becomes an accepted response to wrongdoing. Even murder. And think about it: how many times have the members of this and other administrations claimed Israel’s alleged “occupation” or the so-called “settlements” or non-existent Israeli apartheid for “causing” Palestinian Arab terrorism?
Let’s see how those who insisted that terrorism was not behind the San Bernardino massacre try to spin this. Or maybe they’ll simply take a leaf from Mr. Ayloush’s book and blame American foreign policy. But not this administration’s. It may be back to blaming Bush. Just in time for this new election cycle.