[Magdalen] San Bernardino & IS.

[Roger Stokes]

On 04/12/2015 18:12, Jay Weigel wrote:
> ​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.

One thing that struck me as strange was that he was apparently settled 
in the USA (I don't know where his parents came from).  He then went to 
Saudi Arabia and married someone he may have met over there.  Was there 
familial pressure on both sides to get married?  I am used to the idea 
of Muslims from this country going back to the area their family came 
from to find a spouse.  I don't think this is a good idea but I am 
familiar with it.  How was the match arranged?

Roger