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Home Front: WoT
Mateen had two wives: basic facts
2016-06-13
Orlando terror attack gunman Omar Mateen was married to a 30-year-old woman, the mother of his young son, according to public records.

Mateen had lived in St. Lucie County, Florida, with his second wife, Noor Zahi Salman, but it is not clear if they were together or separated at the time of the shooting. Omar Mateen, 29, and Noor Zahi Salman, 30, have been married since at least 2013, according to a mortgage document. They have a 3-year-old son together.

The status of their relationship is not clear. The Washington Post reports that it appears Salman had left Mateen prior to the shooting. Salman did not respond to requests for comment from Heavy.com and also declined to speak to the Post.

Salman has lived in California and Illinois, and attended the now-defunct Heald College-Concord in California.

Little else is known about Salman, who has deleted her social media profiles, including her Facebook page, in the wake of the shooting.
Facebook may have banned Pam Geller but Ms. Salman, I'm sure, was in good standing...
Mateen was previously married to Sitora Yusufiy, a New Jersey woman, in 2009. Their marriage ended after only a few months when she left him. They were officially divorced in 2011.
That's the one featured in the story below.
In an interview with Heavy.com, Yusufiy said that she lived in Florida with Mateen between April 2009 and August 2009. She said that her parents then “rescued” her from the relationship and she never saw Mateen again. The divorce process took two years because of the long distance.

She posted a message to Facebook after the shootings, “Great Spirit I offer my deepest prayer and condolences to the victims of the Orlando shooting…May they transition in peace may their souls be healed, may the wounded victims recover and heal in peace, may the families and loved ones heal and find their peace….Archangel Michael Please protect us from suffering and the suffered…. Please protect us from hate, violence, anger and instability…. Amen.”

Mateen’s ex-wife, Sitora Yusufiy, who now lives in Colorado, said Mateen was abusive during their brief relationship.

“He was not a stable person. He beat me,” she told the Washington Post. “He would just come home and start beating me up because the laundry wasn’t finished or something like that…He seemed like a normal human being. He was a very private person.”

She said her parents “literally saved her life” when they rescued her from the Florida condo she shared with Mateen.
Posted by:Steve White

#11  Pappy...

Posted by: Thing From Snowy Mountain   2016-06-13 16:53  

#10  Meds, Ship - ya gotta take 'em.
Posted by: Pappy   2016-06-13 16:47  

#9  Who let him out?
Posted by: g(r)omgoru   2016-06-13 16:03  

#8  G(r)0m and JOE! for people's choice MODS!

Suggest Reverse out type on Jooo Blue for G(r)0m

Screaming Blinking Signal Orange for JOE!
Posted by: Shipman   2016-06-13 15:42  

#7  That's right, Crusader. They need to be ridiculed openly, publicly and often by media and politicians until they finally become desensitized to it. Ideally, we could reason with them but you can't reason with people who want to kill you for it. But if you can't reason with them you can't live with them either unless you want to submit to them. They need to be ridiculed, isolated and suppressed until such time as they decide to be reasonable.
Posted by: Ebbang Uluque6305   2016-06-13 13:26  

#6  And anyway, I was talking about mistaking branches for trunk & roots. Sorry it went other your head, Thagum.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru   2016-06-13 13:24  

#5  We can go after the roots and the trees and the leaves--it doesn't have to be an either-or selection.

Further, we need to ridicule the *ideology* that intertwines them all. We must stop pulling our punches when it comes to talking of this backwards-ass "religion". The false-equivalence that we allow when comparing/contrasting Islam and Christianity must be shouted down (and not just by Christians). Even secularlists must surely see the difference between the two, and this tendency to pretend that "religion" is the problem in fact its ISLAM that is the problem must be shoved to the front of the public conversation.
Posted by: Crusader   2016-06-13 13:01  

#4  So now Rantburg mods oppose killing terrorists?

Last I checked, g(r)romgoru wasn't a "Rantburg mod". He's a commenter from Israel; someone who probably has a bit more experience with terrorism than some multi-nymed commenter from Virginia.
Posted by: Pappy   2016-06-13 12:51  

#3  Don't forget Iran.

Funny how, in all this ISIS vs Gasy talk we never hear about Islam vs Gays. Iran still hangs homosexuals - in public. I suspect other 'Islamic Governments' do the same.
Posted by: CrazyFool   2016-06-13 11:07  

#2  This is a leaf. You need to go after the tree. The only way to be effective is to rip out the roots.Destroy ISIS and kill all the members wherever they are.

An get heartfelt thanks from Al Qaida, Taliban, Hizb'allah, and a dozen more?
Posted by: g(r)omgoru   2016-06-13 06:55  

#1  
He would just come home and start beating me up because the laundry wasn’t finished or something like that…He seemed like a normal human being.


Those elipses hide something, or she has an odd sense of "normal".
Posted by: Rob Crawford   2016-06-13 00:05  

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