With the news that Syed Farook and wife Tashfeen Malik left their six-month-old infant with granny before they went on their massacre spree, Maggie Gallagher points out that they were
... willing to turn their baby’s home into a bomb factory, willing to drop the baby off at his mom’s, willing to go back to an office Christmas party with two assault rifles, several handguns, and three connected homemade pipe bombs and murder 14 people. ...
I am trying to imagine what kind of woman could do this: get married to a man she met online, come to America, have a baby that by all the neighbors’ accounts appeared well-loved and cared for — while building pipe bombs, collecting bullets, planning to die in a murderous spree in the name of her foul false god who demands blood sacrifices. What could she have felt when she dropped the baby off? Did she turn one last time to kiss the life she brought into the world, moments before she went to snuff out 14 other lives?
A mother whose soul is so dark that she calmly, deliberately, chooses mass murder over mothering — who can explain it?See my 2012 post, "He has a demon, and is mad."
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