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San Bernardino Terrorists’ Neighbor Who Gave Them Guns Was Muslim

   DailyWire.com

Enrique Marquez, the neighbor accused of selling AR-15s to the San Bernardino Terrorist couple is Muslim and a family member of the Farooks.

Marquez “is an in-law of [Syed] Farook — [who] had converted to Islam about three or four years ago, according to the son of the imam at the Islamic Center of Riverside,” reports NBC News. “Marquez, along with [the terrorist couple] attended the mosque, officials have said. In 2014, records show, Marquez married a woman named Mariya Chernykh — the sister of Tatiana Farook, who is married to Syed Rizwan Farook’s brother, Syed Raheel Farook.”

Federal authorities have already placed Farook’s mother and father on the terror watch list; Farook’s mother, who resided at the same apartment where the couple was planning jihad with several IEDs, is currently being questioned by law enforcement.

As new details emerge, Marquez’s involvement compounds suspicion. “Enrique Marquez and Mariya Chernykh also listed their home address as the same one belonging to Syed Raheel Farook and his father,” adds NBC.

The Muslim neighbor’s apparent involvement, or at the very least implicit facilitation, of the terrorist attack threatens to further disrupt the Leftist “myth of the tiny radical Muslim minority,” as Ben Shapiro notes in a piece for Breitbart:

In short, tens of millions of Muslims all over the world sympathize with the goals or tactics of terrorist groups – or both. That support is stronger outside the West, but it is present even in the West. Islamist extremism is not a passing or fading phenomenon – it is shockingly consistent over time. And the West’s attempts to brush off the ideology of fanaticism has been an overwhelming failure.

Although Marquez has yet to be named as a suspect, his ideological background in conjunction with his questionable affiliation with the terrorist couple, cannot, logically, be explained away as a mere coincidence.

As The Daily Wire reported earlier this week, “The neighbor of the San Bernardino terrorists reportedly bought two AR-15s for them, and then, to avoid talking to the police, he checked himself into a mental hospital.”

The Left’s obsession with gun control and utter disregard for the compounding evidence indicting Radical Islam have obscured the facts on the ground. Don’t be surprised if media outlets on the Left attempt to re-characterize Marquez as a religion-unspecified eccentric. Radical Islam — not Christian “extremism,” “conservative fear-mongering,” or “xenophobia” — is patient zero. The Left can keep burying its head in the sand or face some hard truths.

Charles C.W. Cooke highlights the absurdity of these blinding Leftist narratives:

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