(LA Times) They met online, built a life in San Bernardino — and silently planned a massacre

Syed Rizwan Farook was looking for a woman. A few years ago, not long out of college, he went online to find a match. He was slim, dark-eyed, 6 feet tall and living with a parent in Riverside, his dating profiles explained.

He was Chicago-born, with Pakistani roots. He didn’t drink or smoke. He avoided TV and movies, preferring instead to tinker with old cars, work out and memorize the Quran. He had a $49,000-a-year government job as a health inspector and wanted a young wife who shared his Sunni Muslim faith.

“Someone who takes her religion very seriously and is always trying to improve her religion and encouraging others to do the same using hikmah (wisdom) and not harshness,” he wrote on BestMuslim.com, one of several dating and matrimonial sites he used.

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One comment on “(LA Times) They met online, built a life in San Bernardino — and silently planned a massacre

  1. Pb says:

    Radicalization in inadequate to explain what is going on. John Kerry said he could not understand why someone would do this act. I think this is a major problem.