All or most foreigners, aside from Mehico, generally assume American sounding names when it benefits them.
Sounds like a marriage break up that he could not endure.
That would be the understatement of the year.
The family ... the wife and children were exchanging presents at Christmas. Let’s go easy on these people. There is nothing here to suggest this is from Islam.
This happened a couple of years ago here in So Cal. Do you remember the guy who dressed up as Santa and attempted to [and was largely successful]in burning his ex-wife’s relatives at a Christmas party?
He was inadvertantly burned as well and drove to Sylmar and killed himself instead of escaping.
It happens.