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| - - What are you guys out here for today? | |
| Well, giving our support for the community, coming out and offering our condolences on behalf of the community. | |
| I mean, me and my brother, we were born here, raised here in San Bernardino. | |
| This is our home, and we just want to show the support, you know? | |
| And unfortunately, we had some confrontation with one person that... | |
| Today? | |
| Yeah, right now. | |
| But five minutes ago, I mean, most of the people that were here, they've seen it. | |
| And, I mean, it happens, and, you know, there's a lot of mixed feelings and emotions, so understandable. | |
| Did you guys hear that Saeed Farouk's father came out and said that his son told him that he supported ISIS? Really? | |
| No, we didn't hear that. | |
| We actually knew him from the mosque. | |
| We had acquaintance with him. | |
| And he would come to our mosque and pray on lunch break. | |
| So we had established some type of relation with him. | |
| He was not a friend of ours. | |
| And that's the unfortunate part that we knew him to be a nice person, to be a gentleman, to be humble and all of that. | |
| But unfortunately... | |
| This is what was behind it. | |
| And we had no clues. | |
| Did he keep to himself? | |
| Absolutely. | |
| He was very reserved. | |
| He was a very shy person. | |
| So as I mentioned to the community when this guy was attacking me, I said, had I known, had I known myself and any of my community members known, and if I know of any person that is going to do something like this, that is making bombs, me and my community are the first people. | |
| We'll be the first of people to call the law enforcement and prevent any type of action from happening. | |
| I mean, we're helping the FBI. FBI came to my house. | |
| The night of the event and asked me, you know, that there's phone. | |
| I see that you had phone contact with him and stuff. | |
| I said, yeah, I would see him at the mosque. | |
| I helped, you know, arrange a banquet for his wedding when he got married. | |
| And that was it. | |
| I mean, I never became a friend, so we never had that. | |
| How long had he been married? | |
| I think about a year now. | |
| Did you ever talk about her much? | |
| No, never. | |
| Never. | |
| Did she ever come around? | |
| No. | |
| No. | |
| So it's just a shock. | |
| And, you know, it's so sad. | |
| And we wish that we would have had signs that said this is what he was doing. | |
| So we could have went to the authorities and prevented such an atrocity from happening, you know, this tragedy. | |
| Well, it's awesome you guys are out here at least trying to open up a dialogue. | |
| I mean, that's what our religion teaches us, you know, to be merciful, to be soft, to be gentle and unite with the community when there's times of grief and when there's time of mourning. | |
| We're mourning with the community. | |
| We're crying with the families, you know. | |
| It hurts us just as much as it hurts anyone else, you know, in this community. | |
| So it makes it our duty to come out here. | |
| We must come out here. | |
| And, you know, our parents told us, don't go. | |
| You know, we're afraid of backlashes. | |
| My mom specifically told... | |
| This is my brother, by the way. | |
| And, you know, she told us, don't go out. | |
| You know, don't say anything because we're afraid someone might do something to you. | |
| And I said, no, mom, I have to go. | |
| If I don't go, then the community is going to think that, oh, we had something to do with this, that we were plotting behind their backs or something. | |
| And I swear. | |
| We have nothing to do with this. | |
| And this person's actions is not a reflection of my community, the Muslim community, whether here at home, or in a nation, at a national level, or at an international level. | |
| Muslims, whether in America or abroad, this is not our belief. | |
| These people that have hijacked our faith, this is their ideology, and this is what they're pushing out, but this is not what Islam teaches. | |
| Yeah, so you know, like ISIS, they push homosexuals off bridges, buildings, all that stuff, so that's something that... | |
| Islam doesn't teach, you know. | |
| I mean, on that note, yesterday we went to the memorial of Mr. Daniel. | |
| He was one of the community members who was also gay, right? | |
| We went to go and show our support of him. | |
| We're Muslims. | |
| We went there and the community welcomed us, you know, his partner. | |
| He welcomed us so beautifully. | |
| I mean, he gave us hugs and he was so happy to see us, you know, and to see our support. | |
| And even he said the same thing that, you know, it's not a Muslim that did it. | |
| It has nothing to do with the religion. | |
| Just because he was a Muslim, he said, I'm going to fight, you know, with this, this idea that, no, it's Islamophobia. | |
| You know, fight this Islamophobia and not to make it, you know, an Islamic issue, but make it. | |
| His issue. | |
| That this person, he individually, he did it. | |
| Not him. | |
| But, you know, so it's unfortunate. | |
| Do you have anything you'd like to say? | |
| Well, the one thing I would like to say is that as Americans, as Muslims, we just want to make everyone... | |
| We feel it's our responsibility to make sure everyone feels as safe as possible. | |
| We're all mourning, like my friend said, we were raised in this community. | |
| And we just want everyone to know that we're just as concerned as everyone's safety. | |
| And that's the thing about America. | |
| We can differ. | |
| And go to a home and just call it a day. | |
| It didn't have to come to this, you know? | |
| And like we said, if we knew this person, if this was his views, we would have done whatever we could to make sure that this wouldn't have happened. | |
| One more thing I want to add to that. | |
| As I mentioned to the other people that were here, that I believe this is a time for unification. | |
| This is a time for us to unite as Americans, whether you're Muslim, non-Muslim, Jew or Christian or what have you. | |
| Our country, the most beautiful thing about our country is we don't discriminate based upon color, gender, or most importantly, religion or ethnicity, right? | |
| And this is the time that we need to show that to the world and say, look, we are that country that can move on without having any of these problems. | |
| We can go through that. | |
| As I mentioned, we were born here and raised here. | |
| I'm enjoying all the opportunities. | |
| That all the Americans are. | |
| And I'm proud of that. | |
| That I'm able to pursue an education. | |
| I'm going to Cal State San Bernardino. | |
| And many of my other colleagues and friends from this area are. | |
| I'm trying to establish some sort of business. | |
| I'm trying to be active in my community. | |
| And most importantly, I get to pray in my mosque. | |
| I get to... | |
| Hold my faith sincerely without anyone coming and telling me that I don't have the right to do so. | |
| Didn't Saeed even come out and say that he was trying to pursue a master or something like that? | |
| Yeah, absolutely. | |
| This is one of the things that he mentioned to me. | |
| That this was around the time that his wife was going to give birth and he was going to become a father. | |
| And I remember in those days he was saying that I'm planning on going and pursuing a master. | |
| So that alone just said to me that... | |
| A person that wants to get a master's, it shows that they have some forward thinking in life, that they're going to go and, you know, they're thinking some betterment for their family, something, you know, advancing or something like that, correct? | |
| Maybe it was all planned, I guess, just to seem normal, I guess. | |
| We'll find out when the FBI releases their official investigation report, right? | |
| And we're also curious to see what happens. | |
| Do you guys feel that the mainstream media helps push Islamophobia? | |
| Do you think that it's... | |
| Fox News absolutely does. | |
| I mean, I was watching some stuff yesterday and I was like, this is ridiculous. | |
| You disrespect the President of the United States. | |
| I mean, that's... | |
| I have nothing to say. | |
| I understand this freedom of press, this freedom of speech. | |
| Fine. | |
| I mean, I'm all for that. | |
| But I think that there should be a fine line between being disrespectful and having that free speech. | |
| Like, for me to come and disrespect you and having that right... | |
| I mean, it's just a moral thing I'm saying, you know? | |
| It's morally wrong. | |
| What do you think about the president, just like with the attack that happened at Umpco College up in Oregon? | |
| He doesn't come out and really offer any condolences. | |
| He starts pushing for stricter gun control. | |
| Right. | |
| I mean, we're in California. | |
| It has some of the strictest gun control laws. | |
| The guns were bought legally, mostly. | |
| Right. | |
| I mean, how do you feel about that? | |
| I think that's kind of disrespectful. | |
| Instead of, like, talking to the family, how do you feel about gun control? | |
| That is true. | |
| Do you think people should have the right to bear arms, or do you think that they should sweep them all up? | |
| No, it's our constitutional right. | |
| I mean, absolutely, we have to have the right to bear arms. | |
| That's our constitution. | |
| I've got, like, 100 guns. | |
| I don't have any. | |
| But on that note, I would say that, however, I do believe at the same time that perhaps the government should work and try and maybe limit some things, such as semi-automatic weapons. | |
| Okay, the right to bear weapons, I believe that the purpose behind this from the Founding Fathers was that we have the right to bear, protect ourselves. | |
| And to stand up against a tyrannical government that's gotten out of control. | |
| Right. | |
| But I don't think having semi-automatic weapons, as we see... | |
| That this is what most of the shooters are using, whether they're Muslim or not, right? | |
| Whatever their backgrounds may be. | |
| They're using semi-automatic rifles or weapons and shooting. | |
| Not handguns, not rifles. | |
| I mean, I would say that maybe if we were to re-look at what type of weapons were used and do a report on that and research, what type of weapons are used and try and limit those compared to saying... | |
| Outlaw all guns, period. | |
| And say, hunters, you can use your whatever, you know, it may be whatever type of guns. | |
| I'm not familiar with guns, but whatever type of guns they need for hunting deer or whatever they have, you know? | |
| So that's what I would think that have some balance between the two. | |
| I mean, I just hope that, you know, we can be united in this time. | |
| And I hope that all the members of the community, specifically in California and specifically in San Bernardino and the nation at large. | |
| Use this opportunity to unite rather than disunite. | |
| And I hope that we don't have any backlashes. | |
| Do you think the president's doing everything he can to defeat ISIS? Or do you think he's kind of taking a step back and not really doing what he should do as a president? | |
| Honestly, I'm not sure. | |
| I don't know what his intentions are. | |
| I don't know what his motives are. | |
| I don't know what he's planning on doing. | |
| But I would imagine that, of course, this is a national security issue. | |
| And I'm confident that he, of all people, would have some idea, some plan, you know, to deal with the issue. | |
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