Reports that one of the dead suspects in the San Bernardino attacks, pledged allegiance to ISIS on Facebook have led to the media labeling her a "terrorist bride." The truth could have been very different. Tashfeen Malik was born in Pakistan and raised in Saudi Arabia — one of the world's most conservative Islamic countries. It's been widely speculated that she "radicalized" her American husband. Rafia Zakaria is a Pakistani-American, an attorney and columnist for Al Jazeera. She's also author of The Upstairs Wife: An Intimate History of Pakistan.
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