Andrew Peng noticed the tabloid switched its headline from “MURDER MISSION” to “MUSLIM KILLERS.” As information slowly rolled in about the mass shooting in California, we learned one of the shooters had been at a holiday party at the Inland Regional Center, and so it seemed like a case of a disgruntled employee. Now that the shooters have been identified as Syed Rizwan Farook and Tashfeen Malik—and Farook’s father described him as a “very religious” Muslim—assumptions about their motives have shifted.
But for the record, police have said they still don’t know the motive for the killings. An ABC News reporter suggested it was a “hybrid”—a “workplace jihad.”