Investigators probe whether wife radicalized husband before San Bernardino massacre

[B2G]

OK, I know it's Faux News, but there's a lot of infomation consolidated in one article here. More at link if you're interested.

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Investigators probe whether wife radicalized husband before San Bernardino massacre

Published December 04, 2015
·FoxNews.com

Federal investigators believe there is a "very serious" possibility that Tashfeen Malik, one of two shooters who murdered 14 people and wounded 21 others in San Bernardino, Calif. Wednesday, radicalized her husband and co-assailant, county restaurant inspector Syed Farook, Fox News has learned.

Investigators also believe that the couple had planned a second attack after the shooting at a social service center for the disabled when they were killed in a shootout with local authorities approximately two miles away.

Little is known about Malik's background prior to her meeting Farook. However, a U.S. official confirmed to Fox News that the two met and became engaged after Farook traveled to Saudi Arabia in September 2013. Malik, a Pakistani citizen, applied for a K-1 visa at the American embassy in Islamabad in May 2014 and Farook traveled to Saudi Arabia that July to bring her to the U.S. The Saudi Embassy in Washington has confirmed that Farook's 2014 trip lasted nine days.

They were married on Aug. 16, 2014, in nearby Riverside County, Calif. according to their marriage license. Both listed their religion as Muslim.

http://www.foxnews.com/us/2015/12/04/investigators-probe-whether-wife-radicalized-husband-before-san-bernardino/?intcmp=hpbt1

[2naSalit]

1. Interestingly

As I was watching the Frence24 news they kept referring to her as Qatari. Wonder why.

[B2G]

2. I'm really beginning to question if that's even her real name. nt

[KamaAina]

3. A woman converting a man to radical Islam?!

That'd be a first!

[2naSalit]

4. That we know of...

Since we are not always completely informed, I am not willing to think that could be so uncommon.

[B2G]

5. Hardly a first. More like a growing trend.

http://www.latimes.com/world/europe/la-fg-france-terror-women-20150125-story.html

[bettyellen]

7. Not exactly - they use women to get men to join as jihadi all the time

Promises or brides (encouragement of having offspring(, raping infidel women and then there's that plethora of virgins later. Their MO has always been to use women to get men.
Seems like this could be a variation on that theme.
If she was a deeply devout woman, it's likely allowed the men in her family to choose a man for her. He'd be a great target- an American government worker. Shit. It's not exactly Tinder that got them together.

[bklyncowgirl]

6. This seems very possible, unfortunately. At the very least she was as crazy as he was.

She's Pakistani. He's of Pakistani descent. There's a whole lot of religious crazy in Pakistan and then she went to Saudi Arabia the homeland of Jihadi insanity.

His increasing religiosity seems to coincide with his marriage to her. According to the Imam, she attended the mosque he frequented just once, wearing full niqab. Perhaps she found their conservative but more mainstream version of Islam not to her liking. Eventually he too stopped attending.

Did they radicalize each other? Did she radicalize him? Do we have to worry about Jihadi women lurking on Muslim lonely hearts sites to lure confused westernized Muslim men.