{"id":1219247,"date":"2022-01-16T16:19:32","date_gmt":"2022-01-16T21:19:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1219247"},"modified":"2022-01-16T16:19:40","modified_gmt":"2022-01-16T21:19:40","slug":"this-was-an-act-of-terror-biden-condemns-anti-semitism-promises-security-for-synagogues-churches-after-hostage-scene","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/this-was-an-act-of-terror-biden-condemns-anti-semitism-promises-security-for-synagogues-churches-after-hostage-scene\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018This Was An Act Of Terror\u2019: Biden Condemns Anti-Semitism, Promises Security For Synagogues, Churches After Hostage Scene"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">34<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fthis-was-an-act-of-terror-biden-condemns-anti-semitism-promises-security-for-synagogues-churches-after-hostage-scene%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1219247&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>President Joe Biden condemned anti-Semitism and referred to Saturday\u2019s hostage situation at a Texas synagogue as an \u201cact of terror.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The president spent part of the day Sunday volunteering with First Lady Jill Biden at non-profit Philadelphia food bank Philabundance, and he spoke briefly with reporters about the gunman who took several people hostage at Congregation Beth Israel synagogue in <a href=\"https:\/\/dailywire.com\/news\/congressman-on-synagogue-hostage-situation-now-an-international-investigation-theres-something-more-here\/\">Colleyville, Texas<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Biden calls Texas synagogue hostage situation an act of terror, adding, \u201cI don\u2019t think there is sufficient information to know about why he targeted that synagogue \u2026 why he was using anti-Semitic &amp; anti-Israeli comments.\u201d<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/zu3Fpk7hYM\">pic.twitter.com\/zu3Fpk7hYM<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Breaking911 (@Breaking911) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Breaking911\/status\/1482800614153330694?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 16, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cWith regard to Texas and the synagogue, I spoke this morning with the attorney general, and \u2014 to get a rundown and \u2014 he said there\u2019s overwhelming cooperation with the local authorities and the FBI,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/dailywire.com\/news\/biden-harris-respond-to-man-taking-hostages-at-synagogue-there-is-more-to-learn-about-his-motives\/\">Biden<\/a> began. \u201cThey did one hell of a job. This was an act of terror. This was an act of terror, and not only was \u2014 related to someone who had been arrested, I might add, fifteen years ago and been in jail for ten years \u2026 they did just a great job.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI also told him that I wanted to make sure we got the word out to synagogues and places of worship that we\u2019re not going to tolerate this, that we have this capacity to deal with assaults and particularly the anti-Semitism that has grown up,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aspendailynews.com\/associated_press\/british-man-identified-as-hostage-taker-at-texas-synagogue\/article_a780dfb4-4460-53f7-850f-5ff6bf7b0404.html\">Biden<\/a> continued. \u201cAnd so, and I\u2019ll be talking with \u2014 I put a call in to the rabbi, we missed one another on the way up here. But they should rest assured that we are focused, we are focused, the attorney general is focused, on making sure that we deal with these kind of acts.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Biden voiced his thanks for the professionalism displayed by the FBI and other officials as they managed the situation and then began their full investigation.<\/p>\n<p>Biden went on to take questions from the gathered reporters, who asked how the gunman \u2014 who claimed to be the brother of Aafia \u201cLady of al Qaeda\u201d Siddiqui and demanded her release \u2014 had been able to purchase the weapons he used.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAllegedly \u2014 I don\u2019t have all the facts, nor does the attorney general,\u201d Biden replied. \u201cAllegedly the assertion was he got the weapons on the street.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Biden pivoted briefly to complain about a lack of focus on the number of guns being bought and sold in the United States, noting that it was impossible to stop person-to-person black market sales and seeming to suggest that if fewer Americans were permitted to buy their firearms legally, there would also be fewer guns on the street for criminals to buy.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe should be \u2014 the idea of background checks are critical, but you can\u2019t stop something like this if someone is on the street buying something from somebody else on the street,\u201d he explained, \u201cExcept that there\u2019s so many guns that have been sold of late, it\u2019s just ridiculous. And it\u2019s because of the failure of us to focus as hard as we should and as consistent as we should on gun purchases, gun sales, ghost guns, and a whole range of things that I\u2019m trying to do.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Biden concluded by saying that he did not have any updates on the hostage-taker\u2019s motivation or why that particular synagogue may have bee targeted, promising to provide more information at the press conference he had planned for later in the week.<\/p>\n<p>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. Get inside access to The Daily Wire by becoming a&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\">member<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Joe Biden condemned anti-Semitism and referred to Saturday\u2019s hostage situation at a Texas synagogue as an \u201cact of terror.\u201d The president spent part of the day Sunday volunteering with First Lady Jill Biden at non-profit Philadelphia food bank Philabundance, and he spoke briefly with reporters about the gunman who took several people hostage at &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1219247","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1219247","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1219247"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1219247\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1219247"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1219247"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1219247"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}