The Bishop and the Butterfly: Murder, Politics, and the End of the Jazz Age
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    Cherchez la femme...

    By jollyroger on Tue, 09/20/2016 - 1:37pm |

    New details mention a trip to Quetta, Pakistan (parenthetically the seat of the Quetta Shura...) by Rahami, where he met and GOT MARRIED TO a local girl.  (well, the way they do it, he got married to and then met...)

     

    After that trip, say his compadres, he became markedly devout, you know the rest of the story.

     

    It's been so long since San Bernardino, you prolly forgot that the male shooter there had been a regular guy, until he married an already flame throwing woman from (wait for it, Pakistan).

     

    I'm thinkin' there might be a pattern here...

    Comments

    Eve did not force Adam to bite the apple. Adam did what he wanted to do. Adam was told by God not to eat the fruit, Adam did not stop Eve from eating the fruit. Adam wanted to taste the fruit.

    The guys traveled to the Middle East to fulfill a desire. They were radicalized before they left the United States. The women were afterthoughts. The women are convenient excuses used to protect the honor of the men. The San Bernardino guy and the Jersey guy were stone cold killers who did not need encouragement to do harm.


    by rmrd0000 on Tue, 09/20/2016 - 5:09pm

    Yeah really. A quick search and a bit of math and I estimate very roughly that close to a million Americans travel to the Middle East every year and almost none of them marry a Muslim woman while there, come back and murder a bunch of people. But you know, "The woman, she tempted me."


    by ocean-kat on Tue, 09/20/2016 - 6:32pm