[Magdalen] San Bernardino & IS.

[Jay Weigel]

Several reports have said that he was checking out Muslim online dating
sites. Online dating is not that unusual these days. Ask our Brudder Jon.

On Fri, Dec 4, 2015 at 10:49 PM, Grace Cangialosi <gracecan at gmail.com>
wrote:

> One report said that they met online.
>
> > On 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
>