Identification card from Pakistan

According to the Daily Mail, Tashfeen Malik was the daughter of a wealthy Pakistani family that moved to Saudi Arabia, although she returned to Pakistan to attend college at Bahuddin Zakri University in Multan.

Poor relatives in Pakistan say that Tashfeen used to wear western style clothing (there aren’t clothing laws for women in Pakistan), but that she became a much more devout woman several years ago, and wore a burka while in Saudi Arabia.  Apparently Saudi Arabia requires women to wear the hijab in public, but not a burka.

‘I recently heard it from relatives that she has become a religious person and she often tells people to live according to the teachings of Islam,’ Hifza Batool, 35, said of his step-niece, whose age is either 27 or 29.

Batool said that he had not ever actually met Malik because, ‘Tashfreen Malik’s parents are rich and we are poor and they don’t like to meet with their poor relatives’.

ISIS said in an online radio broadcast that two of their followers were responsible for the attacks in San Bernardino, CA.

Two followers of Islamic State attacked several days ago a center in San Bernardino in California,’ the group’s daily broadcast al-Bayan said.

US government sources have said that there is no evidence the attack was directed by the militant group, or that the organization even knew who the attackers were.

There is reason to believe that Malik influenced her husband to become more radical in his beliefs, which led to the attacks on Wednesday.

While Farook was in Saudi Arabia, either he, his wife, or both of them, may have reached out to Al Quaeda.

The LA Times reported that police sources said Farook also had some form of contact Al Nusra Front, an Al-Qaeda backed group in Syria, as well as al Shabaab in Somalia.

Sources have told Daily Mail Online that US officials communicated with their Pakistani counterparts about connections between Malik and the Red Mosque in Islamabad, which is known for radicalism.

Will the citizens of our country ever wake up?

In an interview with CNN after the shooting,  Barack Obama said the massacre demonstrates that the US needs stricter gun laws. As for the motives of the shooters, Obama shrugged. “We don’t yet know the motives of the shooters,” he insisted.

While ignoring what in all likelihood drove Farook and his wife to murder innocent people, Obama laid responsibility for the carnage at the feet of his political opponents who reject his demands for stricter limitations on gun ownership.

Tashfeen Malik, 27, reportedly made a bayat, or pledge of allegiance, to Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi – the shadowy leader of ISIS who has declared a worldwide caliphate and himself the leader of all Muslims.

He has called on all Sunni Muslims to join him – ISIS also wants to eradicate Shia Muslims – and expects a final apocalyptic showdown with the armies of ‘Rome’ (The West) in Dabiq, a small town of Megiddo near Aleppo in Syria.