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Investigators: Wife may have been driving force in rampage
*Separately, a law enforcement official said investigators are looking into whether Malik was radicalized in the Middle East, where she spent considerable time, and used her 2014 marriage to Farook to penetrate the U.S. and commit jihad. But the official said it is only one among a number of theories that are being pursued.
The two officials were not authorized to discuss the investigation publicly and spoke on condition of anonymity.
While radical Islamic groups at times have mobilized women as suicide bombers, and extremist women may exhort their men to attacks, it is extremely rare in conservative Muslim societies for female jihadists to take part in actual combat, as Malik did.
Malik, 29, and Farook, 28, were killed in a furious shootout with police hours after they opened fire with assault rifles on a gathering of Farook’s colleagues from the San Bernardino County public health department, where he worked as a restaurant inspector.
Former college classmates of Malik’s and others who knew her in Pakistan said that in recent years, she began dressing more conservatively - including wearing a black head-to-toe garment or a scarf that covered nearly her entire face - and became more fervent in her faith.
Former classmate Afsheen Butt said Malik showed drastic changes after a trip to Saudi Arabia in late 2008 or early 2009.
“She used to tell us that this is the real life. We are a nation that has strayed from the right path,” Butt said. “She used to give us Islamic religious literature.”*
It’s hard to fathom how motherhood didn’t moderate any skewed ideas that she might have adopted. She has chosen to leave a defenseless 6 month old child in the world alone. No mother would ever make such a decision in the way she did. I’m desperate to know what is creating these antisocial automatons, both Islamist and westerner.
rolleyes