“We weren’t quite sure if it was an exercise the staff were throwing that they forgot to tell us about”, he said, “but we all reacted instinctively and went under our tables”. U.S. media claims that investigators recovered photographs of Tashfeen with Maulana Abdul Aziz from data investigators recovered during search of Tashfeen Malik.
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Details about the mysterious 27-year-old are slowly emerging. However, a source told AFP that Malik did not complete her course.
“She would often watch religious TV programs and attended religious lectures”, the student said, adding: “She preferred to remain in veil or burqa throughout her stay in the university and provided veiled pictures for all her university documents”. The seminary is in Multan, a Pakistani city that has been linked to jihadist activity.
Federal authorities say they’re trying to determine how two assault rifles used in the California attack got from a buyer to the shooters.
“She was a good girl”.
“It was a two-year course, but she did not finish it”, the teacher said.
The madrassa insists it is not involved with the radicalization of its students. The school has no known links to extremists. “She was aware of the affairs of her university mates which I had never noticed”, said one of her classmates.
The southern region of Punjab from which Tashfeen hailed has always been associated with Sufism, a mystical form of Islam whose adherents worship with song and dance, attend shrines and devote themselves to historic saints-practices viewed as heretical by more orthodox Muslims.
Arif Rafiq, an analyst at the Washington-based Middle East Institute, told the Times of India that Malik’s attendance at the madrassa “suggests that she had embraced a more modern yet austere variant of Islam”.
“It may have made her more susceptible to the ideology of a transnational terrorist group like ISIS”.
But he cautioned that Al-Huda’s graduates rarely become militants.
Still, in the turbulence of that moment, and in the broader generational tensions stemming from Pakistani families who, like Malik’s, go to Saudi Arabia for opportunity and return practising a more conservative brand of Islam, there are clues to the cultural and religious way stations of her apparent transformation. She returned to her family after graduating from Bahauddin Zakariya in 2013, which is where she met her husband through an online, Islamic marriage service.
She met Farook online and the couple married in Mecca, Saudi Arabia, Islam’s holiest city, last year.
Friends and coworkers described Farook as becoming more distant after he and Malik were Wednesday.
“This is one of the first times one of them has crossed the line into violence, and there’s no way to know who is going to flip next”. “The Saudi narrative has varied to the extent that one official denied she had ever been there”, the report said.
Last month, police retrieved weapons from the men’s dorms on campus, arrested three students and confiscated mobile phones and laptops from others, he added.
“Whether you consider this a request or a dictation (order), I would advise you not to pursue this story”, one said. The FBI raided the Riverside home of Enrique Marquez Jr., early Saturday morning. It may be mentioned that Maulana Abdul Aziz escaped while wearing Burka when his Lal Masjid was attacked by law enforcing agencies in July 2007 to establish writ of the government. Malik, 29, and husband Syed Rizwan Farook, 28, were killed two hours later in a shootout with police.
The FBI has said it is investigating the shooting at a holiday gathering of Farook’s co-workers as an act of terrorism.
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Newly released emergency radio transmissions from the fast-moving tragedy show that police identified Farook as a suspect nearly immediately, even though witnesses reported that the attackers wore black ski masks.
