Of all the victims of the latest mass shooting, in San Bernardino, Calif., the most troubling of all well might be a six-month-old girl.
She’s still alive. But she is the daughter of the two people suspected of carrying out the terrorist attack that killed 14 people and injured many more.
How does one comprehend the act of taking an infant to her grandparents’ home, leaving her there, and then launching a mission of terror against innocent victims at a social services agency?
What happens now to this little girl? Sure, she’ll be reared by her grandparents. I get that. What is more difficult to get is what will become of her as she comes of age.
Will she ever know of the tragedy that her parents, Tafsheen Malik and Syed Farook, inflicted on the world? Should she know what her parents did?
I’ll let others debate that one. I’m not going there.
A little girl now is left to grow up without a set of parents who presumably loved her, but who felt compelled to commit this horrific act.
Who’s the villain in this tragedy? It’s looking as though Malik was the “radicalized” one, that she persuaded her husband to join her in this jihad against those at the agency who were celebrating at a Christmas party.
But, of course, that does not absolve Farook of anything. They both abandoned their baby girl to take up for some demented cause.
She’s now left to grow upĀ and enter a world that’s been made decidedly less safe andĀ comforting by the two people who broke their solemn pledge to protect her.
This is a singular tragedy that defies logic at every level imaginable.