Islamization of the West – Page 265

Being Jewish in an Unraveling America

The bad guy was killed. The good guys were saved. But the reaction to the hostage-taking in Colleyville, Texas, should alarm American Jews.

Last week, I met a rabbi in Los Angeles. We talked about surfing where to get the best pizza in the city and her kids and politics. At the end of the evening, she was making plans with a colleague, and they extended an invitation. Would I want to go to the shooting range with them next weekend?

I thought about the rabbi with her guns a lot over this Shabbat, as Jews who had gathered for services at Congregation Beth Israel in Colleyville, Texas, were taken hostage by a man named Malik Faisal Akram. After nearly 11 hours, thanks to earthly miracles of law enforcement and perhaps heavenly ones as well, they were freed unharmed. Akram, who had predicted his own death in his rantings captured on Facebook livestream, was dead.

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by Blazingcatfur•January 18, 2022January 18, 2022•0•"Islamophobia", Islam, Islam and violence, Islamization of the West, USA

Known Wolf: MI5 investigated Texas synagogue hostage-taker in 2020

The British man who took hostages at a Texas synagogue had been under investigation by MI5 as a possible Islamist terrorist threat as recently as 2020, Whitehall sources have acknowledged.

British intelligence closed the investigation, however, after officers had concluded Malik Faisal Akram from Blackburn posed no threat, and as a result he was able to travel freely to the US and purchase a gun.

by Blazingcatfur•January 18, 2022January 18, 2022•0•"Islamophobia", Islam, Islam and violence, Islamization of the West, UK, USA

When are we going to take radical Islam seriously?

The terror in Texas confirms that British Islamism has become a global menace.

So, Britain is now exporting anti-Semitism. Not content with harassing and abusing the Jewish community here in the UK, our racists are now taking their Jew-hatred overseas. It transpires that the man who held Jews hostage for 11 hours in the Congregation Beth Israel synagogue in Colleyville, Texas was a British national of Pakistani heritage named Malik Faisal Akram. He was from Blackburn. Two teenagers have now been arrested in Manchester in connection with this racist act of terror. Trekking from Blackburn to Texas to terrorise Jews – that’s some serious commitment to racial hatred right there.

by Blazingcatfur•January 18, 2022January 17, 2022•0•"Islamophobia", Islam, Islam and violence, Islamization of the West

Texas Synagogue Terrorist Came Out of UK Islamist No-Go Zone

His community hopes Allah will “bless him with the highest ranks of Paradise”.

As far back as 2013, Pakistani Muslim terrorists had plotted to take “foreign Jews” hostage to trade for ‘Lady Al Qaeda’. In 2022, a Pakistani Muslim terrorist actually went out and did it.

The hostage crisis at Congregation Beth Israel, a Reform Temple in Texas, ended with Faisal Akram of Blackburn, another post-industrial English town where Muslims make up a third of the population and Pakistanis account for over 10 percent, dead, and his Jewish hostages set free.

by Blazingcatfur•January 17, 2022January 17, 2022•0•"Islamophobia", Islam, Islam and violence, Islamization of the West, UK, USA

Europe is blind to the next jihadi threat

Politicians and the press have ignored the evolution of Islamism

It’s been a while since Isis staged a major attack on the West. Occasionally the group’s degraded propaganda organs will try and claim one, but even that is less common nowadays. Still, just because Isis central isn’t orchestrating mass murder in Europe, it doesn’t mean that there aren’t still people killing in the name of jihad — if anything, the Islamist terror threat is still claiming many more lives and much more frequently than we realise.

ISIS Conducted 2,700-Plus Attacks Worldwide in 2021

by Blazingcatfur•January 17, 2022January 17, 2022•0•"Islamophobia", Islam, Islam and violence, Islamization of the West

FBI finally admits Texas synagogue siege WAS an anti-Semitic terror attack after first claiming it was ‘not specifically related to the Jewish community’

The FBI has finally admitted the Texas synagogue siege was an anti-Semitic terror attack after initially claiming it was not directly targeting Jews.

Malik Faisal Akram, from Blackburn in the UK, held four people hostage, including a rabbi, for ten hours at the Congregation Beth Israel synagogue in Colleyville, Texas, Saturday night.

Speaking Saturday after the attack, which ended with the death of Akram in a hail of bullets, FBI Special Agent Matt DeSarno said: ‘We do believe from our engaging with this subject that he was singularly focused on one issue, and it was not specifically related to the Jewish community. But we’re continuing to work to find motive.’

by Blazingcatfur•January 17, 2022January 17, 2022•0•"Islamophobia", FBI, Islam, Islam and violence, Islamization of the West, USA, WTF?

Mohammedan terrorist shot dead in Texas synagogue siege was banned from Blackburn court 20 years ago for ranting about 9/11

The British Muslim shot dead after taking a rabbi and three of his congregation hostage in a Texas synagogue was once banned from court buildings in his hometown after ranting about 9/11, MailOnline can exclusively reveal today.

As police in the US and UK scramble to discover if he was part of a wider terror cell, it has emerged that Malik Faisal Akram, 44, from Blackburn, Lancashire, was branded a ‘menace’ for raving about the attack on the World Trade Centre in 2001.

The terror suspect was given a rare Exclusion Order at Blackburn’s magistrates’ court – the first in 25 years – for abusing staff about 9/11 on the day after the attack that claimed more than 2,750 lives.

by Blazingcatfur•January 17, 2022January 17, 2022•0•"Islamophobia", Islam, Islam and violence, Islamization of the West, USA

Texas synagogue siege: Teens held in UK

Two teenagers have been arrested in England as part of the investigation into a hostage-taking incident at a synagogue in Texas on Saturday.

British citizen Malik Faisal Akram, 44, from Blackburn, was shot dead after a standoff with police in Colleyville.

Details of the ages or genders of the pair arrested in south Manchester on Sunday evening were not revealed.

Greater Manchester Police said it was liaising with local communities and continuing to assist in the US inquiry.

by Blazingcatfur•January 16, 2022•0•"Islamophobia", Islam, Islam and violence, Islamization of the West, USA

Good timing Huffpost UK – “Islamophobia Plagues Our Education, Politics, and Media. Why Is Nothing Changing?”

What a day to post this pile of crap.

” … In February, the first female secretary general to the Muslim Council of Britain, Zara Mohammed, was subjected to a hostile interview on the BBC, and forced to negate the “backward”, sexist ways of her religion.

By March, two schools in Birmingham and Slough were being told to train Muslim students to effectively spy on one another, according to Prevent Watch, a community-led initiative that monitors the Prevent scheme.”

Later in the year, anti-Muslim hate showed its face again when MP David Amess’s tragic killing in October led to death threats to British Somalis.

The Horror!

A sense of permanent victimhood and a hatred of the nation that took them in. Ain’t diversity swell?

by Blazingcatfur•January 16, 2022January 16, 2022•0•"Islamophobia", Islam, Islam and violence, Islamization of the West, UK

Of course the Colleyville terrorist was “mentally ill”

… Shortly after Akram was named as the hostage taker, a post on the Blackburn Muslim Community Facebook page was uploaded, purportedly written by his brother Gulbar.

The post stated that Akram “was suffering from mental health issues” but the family were “confident that he would not harm the hostages”. It stated that family members had been sat in an incident room all night liaising with Akram, the FBI and hostage negotiators.

The post claimed that Akram released all the remaining three hostages before “a firefight has taken place and he was shot and killed”.

BREAKING: Statement from the brother of Faisal Akram of Blackburn who was the gunman in #ColleyvilleSynagogue hostage scenario, shared with @SkyNews pic.twitter.com/CxcuAeDolN

— Inzamam Rashid (@inzyrashid) January 16, 2022

by Blazingcatfur•January 16, 2022January 16, 2022•0•"Islamophobia", Islam, Islam and violence, Islamization of the West, USA

Colleyville Texas synagogue siege: hostage-taker named as Briton Malik Faisal Akram

A man who died after taking four people hostage at a Texas synagogue has been named by the FBI as 44-year-old British national Malik Faisal Akram.

Akram began a standoff with police after disrupting a religious service at the Congregation Beth Israel in Colleyville, in the Dallas-Fort Worth metropolitan area, and taking hostages including the rabbi. He released one hostage unharmed after six hours.

More than 10 hours after the siege began, members of the FBI’s hostage rescue team stormed the synagogue to free the three remaining hostages. They were said to be “alive and well” after the siege had been brought to an end.

The Guardian is still searching for motive but wishes to ensure its readers that Islam has mothing to do with Islam and that White Supremacist Jews probably put poor Malik up to it.

by Blazingcatfur•January 16, 2022January 16, 2022•0•"Islamophobia", Islam, Islam and violence, Islamization of the West, USA

Colleyville Texas synagogue hostage taker was British Muslim – reports

A hostage taker who detained four people at a synagogue in a suburb of Dallas, Texas, was a British citizen, reports say.

The man interrupted a morning service in Colleyville on Saturday and has since died.

Police deployed special weapons teams, while FBI negotiators spent hours talking to the assailant.

Explosions and gunfire could be heard before the ten-hour stand-off ended. The hostages have been freed unharmed.

In a statement, the UK Foreign Office said it was aware of the death of a British man in Texas and was in contact with the local authorities. It is not yet clear how the hostage-taker died or who he was.

Video from @WFAA-TV shows the moment hostages were released from a synagogue in Colleyville, Texas. https://t.co/NkZC9Nq9x9

— Bulletin (@bulletinletters) January 16, 2022

by Blazingcatfur•January 16, 2022January 16, 2022•0•"Islamophobia", Islam, Islam and violence, Islamization of the West, USA

The Islamists Around New York’s Mayor Eric Adams Love Jihad

“Allah is our goal. The Prophet is our leader. The Koran is our constitution. Jihad is our way.”

Imam Talib Abdur-Rashid believes that Muslims were in America before Columbus and spread their religion to the Indians, and that a California earthquake was Allah’s warning to America.

The Imam defended his refusal to celebrate July 4th by comparing the founding of America and Israel to dropping atom bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

Rashid suggested that the Charlie Hebdo terror attack and the ISIS attack on the Mohammed cartoon contest in Texas were “examples of ‘chickens coming home to roost’”.

by Blazingcatfur•January 16, 2022January 15, 2022•0•"Islamophobia", Islam, Islam and violence, Islamization of the West, USA

What’s going wrong in Britain’s mosques?

Ed Husain’s Among the Mosques explores our diverse and divided Muslim communities.

“… However, towards the end of Among the Mosques, Husain reaches a sober conclusion. He concludes that it is the literalists who have gained the upper hand:

‘After travelling the length and breadth of Great Britain, meeting Muslims from every denomination, it is clear to me that blind reliance on scripture and the clerics is overwhelmingly strong within British Islam. Adherence to the seventh-century Koran, ninth-century hadith and 10th- and 11th-century Islamic scholarship is deeply embedded.’

He feels that three distinct trends are at work among Britain’s Muslim communities. First, communalism, whereby what might have been a private, religious identity is becoming increasingly public and political. Second, clericalism, in which the power of clerics is subverting the authority of the state. And finally, caliphism, which encourages Muslims to believe that secular Britain is flawed and failing…”

by Blazingcatfur•January 16, 2022January 15, 2022•0•"Islamophobia", Islam, Islam and violence, Islamization of the West, UK

Texas officials say all hostages safe, out of Colleyville synagogue; Muslim hostage-taker dead

Texas officials say all hostages safe, out of Colleyville synagogue; Muslim hostage-taker dead

Gov. Greg Abbott tweeted about 9:35 p.m. that all hostages are safe and out of a Colleyville synagogue after a loud bang and gunfire were heard.

U.S. Rep. Beth Van Duyne told a Star-Telegram reporter in a text and the hostage-taker is dead.

A loud bang followed by what sounded like gunfire was heard about 9:12 p.m. Saturday outside the Colleyville synagogue where a hostage situation has been ongoing for hours. This developing story will be updated.

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by Blazingcatfur•January 15, 2022January 15, 2022•0•"Islamophobia", Islam, Islam and violence, Islamization of the West, USA, WTF?