{"id":1219666,"date":"2022-01-17T08:38:07","date_gmt":"2022-01-17T13:38:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1219666"},"modified":"2022-01-17T08:38:12","modified_gmt":"2022-01-17T13:38:12","slug":"fbi-claim-texas-hostage-situation-not-specifically-targeting-jews-slammed-as-absurd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/fbi-claim-texas-hostage-situation-not-specifically-targeting-jews-slammed-as-absurd\/","title":{"rendered":"FBI Claim Texas Hostage Situation &#039;Not Specifically Targeting Jews&#039; Slammed as &#039;Absurd&#039;"},"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\">24<\/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%2Ffbi-claim-texas-hostage-situation-not-specifically-targeting-jews-slammed-as-absurd%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=1219666&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 class=\"subheading\">The gunman who held worshipers hostage at Congregation Beth Israel in Colleyville, Texas, was \u201cnot specifically\u201d targeting the Jewish community, the&nbsp;Special Agent in charge of FBI Dallas claimed shortly after the attack, prompting incredulity from critics in light of \u201cLady Al-Qaeda\u2019s\u201d vociferous antisemitic rhetoric.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe do believe from our engagement with this subject that he was singularly focused on one issue, and it was not specifically related to the Jewish community,\u201d Special Agent Matthew Desarno said of the now-deceased suspect.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cBut we are continuing to work to find [the] motive,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">FBI: \u201cWe do believe from our engagement with this subject that he was singularly focused on one issue &amp; it was not specifically related to the Jewish community.\u201d Guy took a synagogue hostage on Sabbath to free the nearby notoriously anti-Semitic terrorist.<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/NCXqBxWyhn\">pic.twitter.com\/NCXqBxWyhn<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Jerry Dunleavy (@JerryDunleavy) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JerryDunleavy\/status\/1482715592910151682?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 16, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The suspect, since <a href=\"https:\/\/dfw.cbslocal.com\/2022\/01\/16\/dalas-fbi-identifies-colleyville-synagogue-hostage-taker-malik-faisal-akram\/\">identified<\/a> as UK citizen Malik Faisal Akram (pictured, top), was heard at the synagogue on Facebook live demanding the release of Aafia Siddiqui, a Pakistani national who is&nbsp;serving an 86-year sentence for the attempted killing of&nbsp;U.S. military personnel.&nbsp;Siddiqui is a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/israel-news\/article-692661\">raving antisemite<\/a>, according to the <em>Jerusalem Post<\/em>, and she blamed the Jews for 9\/11.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p>As per the <em>Post<\/em>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Siddiqui dismissed her legal defense team because she said the lawyers were Jewish, and she demanded that jurors in the trial take DNA tests to make sure they were not Israeli or Zionists, in order \u201cto be fair.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>She also wrote a letter to then-president Barack Obama telling him that Jews \u201chave always back-stabbed everyone who has taken pity on them and made the \u2018fatal\u2019 error of giving them shelter.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is this cruel, ungrateful back-stabbing of the Jews that has caused them to be mercilessly expelled from wherever they gain strength. This is why \u2018holocausts\u2019 keep happening to them repeatedly! If they would only learn to be grateful and change their behavior!!\u201d Siddiqui wrote.<\/p>\n<p>After her conviction, Siddiqui said: \u201cThis is a verdict coming from Israel and not from America. That\u2019s where the anger belongs.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The report went onto say that the likelihood of Akram demanding Siddiqui\u2019s release while being unaware of her anti-Jewish views is slim.<\/p>\n<p>The report also noted the unlikely scenario in which a would-be attacker would \u201crandomly\u201d pick a synagogue to pull of a hostage situation and without knowing that Saturday morning would be when Jewish worshipers gathered there to pray.<\/p>\n<p>According to the <em>Jerusalem Post<\/em>, one of the organizations that has been calling for Siddiqui\u2019s release in recent weeks is the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR).<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Seriously <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/guardian?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@guardian<\/a>? Why the f*ck is hostage in quotations? <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Colleyville?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Colleyville<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/lRhCecu2b9\">pic.twitter.com\/lRhCecu2b9<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Arsen Ostrovsky (@Ostrov_A) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Ostrov_A\/status\/1482459102697730048?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 15, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B3\" class=\"a8d adSo\"><\/figure>\n<p>In November, CAIR San Francisco executive director Zahra Billoo warned Muslims to \u201cknow your enemies\u201d and to be aware of the \u201cpolite Zionists\u201d hiding among Americans.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen we talk about Islamophobia, we often think of the vehement fascists\u2026 but I also want us to pay attention to the polite Zionists, the ones that say, \u2018Let\u2019s just break bread together\u2019\u2026 We need to pay attention to the Anti-Defamation League, we need to pay attention to the Jewish Federation, we need to pay attention to the Zionist synagogues, we need to pay attention to the Hillel chapters on our campuses,\u201d Billoo said.<\/p>\n<p>The head of the movement for Reform Judaism, Rabbi Rick Jacobs, also slammed the FBI\u2019s characterization of the event as random, saying that Desarno\u2019s comments \u201cconveys a completely wrong sense of what yesterday was all about.\u201d<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_19512330\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/GettyImages-1364974078.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-19512330\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/GettyImages-1364974078.jpg\" alt=\"COLLEYVILLE, TEXAS - JANUARY 16: A law enforcement vehicle sits near the Congregation Beth Israel synagogue on January 16, 2022 in Colleyville, Texas. All four people who were held hostage at the Congregation Beth Israel synagogue have been safely released after more than 10 hours of being held captive by a gunman. Yesterday, police responded to a hostage situation after reports of a man with a gun was holding people captive. (Photo by Brandon Bell\/Getty Images)\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>A law enforcement vehicle sits near the Congregation Beth Israel synagogue on January 16, 2022 in Colleyville, Texas. (Brandon Bell\/Getty Images)<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>\u201cThere\u2019s no doubt that the underlying whole premise of yesterday was antisemitism,\u201d Jacobs&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.msnbc.com\/yasmin-vossoughian-reports\/watch\/-it-s-part-of-a-larger-pattern-texas-synagogue-hostage-standoff-and-rising-anti-semitism-in-the-u-s-131007045587\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">told<\/a>&nbsp;MSNBC.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe hostage-taker didn\u2019t go to McDonald\u2019s, didn\u2019t go to some random place, and that is part of the story of antisemitism, to single Jews out.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI don\u2019t know one Jewish person who\u2019s in the dark about [the] antisemitic attack,\u201d Jacobs continued.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cObviously it\u2019s important to know what we\u2019re discovering about the hostage-taker, but the truth is, on a Sabbath morning, a community gathered in prayer\u2026 somebody come in bent on harm. That is hardly something we would call just an incidental detail. That is a focal point.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The gunman who held worshipers hostage at Congregation Beth Israel in Colleyville, Texas, was \u201cnot specifically\u201d targeting the Jewish community, the\u00a0Special Agent in charge of FBI Dallas claimed shortly after &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":83,"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-1219666","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\/1219666","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\/83"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1219666"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1219666\/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=1219666"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1219666"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1219666"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}