How then San Bernadino terrorists don't fit the typical American husband and wife criminal narrative

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As Laurie Anderson sang in "Let X =X," it was "Oh boy. Right again" for me concerning Syed Rizwan Farook and his wife, Malik. I had just heard an "expert" interviewed on KCBS news radio. He had said that in most cases where husbands and wives commit crimes together, the husband heavily influences the wife. He said he expected this to be the case in the terrorist attack in San Bernadino. My experience as a psychologist for Department of Corrections in California confirmed this his overall assessment. Many of the women I worked with were incarcerated because of things they had done with their husbands. But I knew he was wrong about this case, even as I was driving and listening to the radio. Syed Rizwan Farook had worked for several years for the organization he eventually attacked, and he had only done so after he married Malik. According to articles I'm reading to today, Malik had moved from her native Pakistan to Saudi Arabia when she was two, and her father had become increasingly "conservative" and increasingly estranged from the rest of his family as the years progressed. Today, we're hearing that she had pledged allegiance to a Jihadist leader shortly before the attacks, and that she may have been instrumental in "radicalizing" her husband. It may be that the usual rules don't apply when it comes to Jihadist terrorists.