[Magdalen] San Bernardino & IS.

[James Oppenheimer-Crawford]

My wife, who grew up in Saudi Arabia, said the couple met through an online
dating site, and that they were at the party of the company, someone said
something she or he didn't care for, he or she or they went home and got
guns and came back and shot the place up.
If that turns out to be what happened, it's more a case of white trash
reaction to being dissed -- happens all the time, but most folks just shoot
out a few walls and then calm down.

It will be interesting to find out what seems to have happened when the
facts are known and analysed, no?

Ah, but speculation is so dannn much fun!!!

James W. Oppenheimer-Crawford
*“A life is like a garden. Perfect moments can be had, but not preserved,
except in memory. LLAP**”  -- *Leonard Nimoy

On Fri, Dec 4, 2015 at 7:17 PM, Roger Stokes <roger.stokes65 at btinternet.com>
wrote:

> 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
>