Tashfeen Malik’s daily life was a common one that has not been an indicator of radicalization: ‘She’s a typical small-town,educated, middle-class conservative’Anyone looking for clues for why Tashfeen Malik turned from a young mother into an Islamic State-supporting mass killer capable of slaughtering 14 people with her husband will struggle to find anything in the picture that has so far emerged of the 29-year-musty Pakistani.
The news on Monday that she regularly attended a women’s religious group in her domestic country that promotes an austere form of Islam did nothing to change the emerging profile of a woman who resembles countless other young Pakistanis living at a time of social, and economic and religious upheaval.
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Source: theguardian.com