[Magdalen] San Bernardino & IS.

[Jay Weigel]

​Going to Saudi Arabia is also not unusual for a Muslim, as making Hajj is
one of the Five Pillars of Islam, and Mecca also happens to be in Saudi
Arabia.​

Did her family also live in Saudi Arabia, or was she working there? There
are a lot of South Asians working in the Middle East. A fair number of the
South Asian nurses I worked with had worked in various countries on the
Arabian peninsula, some in Saudi Arabia.

On Fri, Dec 4, 2015 at 12:51 PM, Roger Stokes <roger.stokes65 at btinternet.com
> wrote:

> On 04/12/2015 17:29, Jay Weigel wrote:
>
>> That makes me wonder if she radicalized *him*. Stranger things have
>> happened.
>>
>
> I believe he went to Saudi Arabia where she lived (having moved there from
> Pakistan) and married her there.  That country includes Mecca and the Saudi
> Royal Family are adherents of Wahhabism, a very conservative branch of
> Islam which seeks to restore a purer form of that religion.
>
> Roger
>