An Analysis of the San Bernardino Massacre
Both shooters were apparently of Pakistani ethnicity , although Syed was born in America, and his wife lived recently in Saudi Arabia. And he had travelled there and to Pakistan. He is described by others as a “devout Muslim.” What kind of religiosity can justify this? A perverted one. It was an Islamic Bonnie & Clyde – his wife fully participating in the shooting, armed as he was w. an assault rifle & handgun, and she shooting out the back of their rented van at police in pursuit. They had dropped their 6 month old baby girl off with relatives before the attack. Their hatred clearly was greater than any love they had for their baby. Just months before they’d put up items on a baby registry. He enjoyed all that this country had to offer – educated, a stable job of several years, a fine home in a middle-class neighborhood. But he chose rather to buy into the jihadi rhetoric and examples. No, this was not jus...