Tashfeen Malik
One US official familiar with the investigation said Tashfeen Malik, 27, had posted on a Facebook account under a different name just as the attack was going on. The officials did not explain how they knew Malik was responsible for the post, CNN reported.
Malik and her American-born husband, Syed Rizwan Farook, had burst into a year-end party in San Bernardino, California on Wednesday afternoon and opened fire on a roomful of Farook’s co-workers, killing 14 and wounding 21.
David Bowdich, assistant director of the FBI’s Los Angeles office, announced at a press conference on Friday morning that they were investigating the mass shooting as an “act of terrorism” after details of Malik’s deleted Facebook post came to light.
A US official told the Associated Press on the condition of anonymity that Malik had expressed “admiration” for Baghdadi in the Facebook post. A Facebook executive said that the post was made at the same time the first calls to police were made about the attack.
Meanwhile, Malik’s relatives in her native district of Layyah said that they have been questioned by Pakistani security officials in connection with the attack.
Tashfeen hailed from DG Khan
Malik hailed from Taunsa tehsil in DG Khan district of Punjab but had lived much of her life in Saudi Arabia.
California shooting suspect was devout Muslim: father
Malik was born to Haji Gulzar Ahmed Malik, patron of a prosperous Seraiki-speaking family in Vehoa city, in DG Khan. She has two sisters and two brothers and was related to former provincial minister Ahmed Ali Aulak.
Haji Gulzar had moved from his native city to Layyah for a short while before taking his family to Rawalpindi as he pursued his business. That pursuit took Haji Gulzar to Riyadh in Saudi Arabia almost 25 years ago.
However, with educational opportunities limited for non-residents in Saudi Arabia, Haji Gulzar sent his daughters to Pakistan to complete their higher studies. Following in her older sister’s footsteps, Malik arrived in Pakistan to study pharmacy at the Bahauddin Zakaria University.
Her maternal uncle told The Express Tribune that she came back around five to six years ago. Like her sister, she completed her D-Pharm with a 74.88 percentage.
Pakistani-origin couple kept tight lid on plans for San Bernardino shooting
After completing her studies, Malik returned to Saudi Arabia.
Farook was born in an Urdu-speaking household in Illinois to Syed and Rafia Farook. In 2013 Farook visited Saudi Arabia to perform Hajj.
After he met Malik apparently through an online matrimonial service, Rizwan returned to Saudi Arabia to meet her family.
The two married and moved to the US where they had a six-month-old baby.
One of Malik’s uncles, Javed Rabbani, said her father, Haji Gulzar, had changed during their time in Saudi Arabia. “When relatives visited him, they would come back and tell us how conservative and hard-line he had become,” Rabbani said.
Her maternal uncle disclosed that both Malik and Farook were religiously inclined.
‘Radicalised’ California shooter had terror ties: reports
Pakistan condemns attack
The Pakistan embassy in Washington DC on Friday condemned the attack and offered condolences to families of the victims.
“It is hoped that the investigations would lead the authorities to the perpetrators of this act to justice sooner,” it said in a statement.
Meanwhile, security officials have started inquiring about Malik with her relatives in DG Khan questioned.
Published in The Express Tribune, December 5th, 2015.
Categories: Pakistan, Pakistan a peaceful nation, The Muslim Times
She is only ‘an innocent young mother profiled because of her religion and race’.
Namelee—please show me one verse in Al quran that Prophet Muhammad (pbuh) ordered his followers to kill innocent people, apostate, blasphemy, Gay lesbian and infidel—–except in war.
With love
There are numerous but this site will not publish that post if I should list the verses. If there is guaranty that the comment will be posted then I will give you the verses.
Ali hidayah, you failed to give me the guaranty. But I suggest you read the following suras and see how your prophet calls for unprovoked war on non muhammadans: sura 8:12, 55; sura 9:1-7: sura 9:26,38. In muhammadan parlance, only ‘believers’ are innocent people. There will be more if this one is posted.
Ali hidayah, you failed to give me the guaranty, as a result, attempts to give you the quranic verses have been aborted by the site editors.
Defensive War in the Holy Quran in 600 Words
Namely—-wrote There are numerous but this site will not publish that post if I should list the verses.
Yes, there are many verses in Al Quran which Prophet or Allah order to kill unbeliever such as;
So, when the sacred months expire, kill the Mushriks wherever you find them, and catch them and besiege them and sit in ambush for them everywhere. Then, if they repent and establish Salah and pay Zakah, leave their way. Surely, Allah is most Forgiving, Very-Merciful. QS 9;5 QS. 9:29
These verses sent to prophet Muhammad (pbuh) to defend him self from enemies or in battlefield.
on contrary; Allah and Prophet say in Al Quran;
If you kill a person as if you kill whole humanity, if you save a life as if you save whole mankind.
How cool Islamic teaching is?
Prophet says;
but those who plot evils, theirs will be severe torment. And the plotting of such will perish. QS 35;10.
Send not away those who call on their Lord morning and evening seeking His Face. In naught art thou accountable for them, and in naught are they accountable for thee, that thou shouldst turn them away, and thus be (one) of the unjust QS 6;52
Hopefully I can convince you with verses above from God.
With my love
Sura 9:1-5 has nothing to do with defence. It is pure aggression on people who choose not to believe. There are many like that. I have asked how many of Muhammad’s wars were really defensive but that will not be published.
Namelee—-read carefully thses verses;
Here is a disavowal (proclaimed) by Allah and His Messenger against the Mushriks (polytheists) with whom you have a treaty. 1 (1) So, move in the land freely for four months, and be aware that you can never frustrate Allah, and that Allah is going to disgrace the disbelievers. (2) And here is an announcement, from Allah and His Messenger, to the people on the day of the greater Hajj, 2 that Allah is free from (any commitment to) the Mushriks, and so is His Messenger. Now, if you repent, it is good for you. And if you turn away, then be aware that you can never frustrate Allah. And give those who disbelieve the ‘good’ news of a painful punishment. (3) Except those of the Mushriks with whom you have a treaty, and they were not deficient (in fulfilling the treaty) with you, and did not back up any one against you. So fulfill the treaty with them up to their term. Surely, Allah loves the God-fearing. (4) So, when the sacred months expire, kill the Mushriks wherever you find them, and catch them and besiege them and sit in ambush for them everywhere. Then, if they repent and establish Salah and pay Zakah, leave their way. Surely, Allah is most Forgiving, Very-Merciful. (5)
It is clear that there is a word of “TREATY”, it means people of Mushrik and people of Muhammad (pbuh) in WAR….
With love