Two weeks before the San Bernardino shooting rampage, a friend of Nicholas Thalasinos said he was engaged in a discussion about Islam with Syed Rizwan Farook.
Kuuleme Stephens said she had called Thalasinos, 52, during his lunch break two weeks ago and that Thalasinos answered the phone as he was engaged in a conversation with Farook, who would become the attacker, with his wife, Tashfeen Malik, in the Inland Regional Center massacre.
Thalasinos, a Messianic Jew, told Stephens that he was having a conversation with Farook about politics, religion and Islam. Stephens said she could hear Farook talking in the background. Thalasinos was a health inspector and worked with Farook at the San Bernardino County Health Department’s environmental services division.
She said Thalasinos told her, “Syed did not believe Islam was not a peaceful religion.” Stephens said Thalasinos told her that Farook did not believe Israel belonged in the Middle East and that it was a Muslim homeland.
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