(FrontPage) Tayyab Ismail’s family-life appears to be over, or at least it is going to take a very big hiatus. On Friday, December 14th, Ismail was arrested on terrorism-related charges. Federal authorities claim that he repeatedly posted bomb-making instructions on forums frequented by Islamic extremists and expressed support for the Islamic State. For years, he was leading up to this moment, making terrorist threats, affiliating with radicals like himself, and violently putting his wife’s life in peril. Question: Was his wife aware of any of it?
Tayyab Tahir Ismail and Romaisa Waseem, both Pakistani-born immigrants to the US, were wedded on April 30, 2012. About a year later, the couple had a child. This was not the model family, though, as just three years into the marriage, while their two-year-old daughter was with them in their Miramar apartment, an enraged Ismail nearly strangled his wife to death.
