{"id":1229342,"date":"2022-01-21T09:09:00","date_gmt":"2022-01-21T14:09:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1229342"},"modified":"2022-01-21T09:09:06","modified_gmt":"2022-01-21T14:09:06","slug":"fbi-director-calls-texas-hostage-situation-act-of-terrorism-targeting-the-jewish-community","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/fbi-director-calls-texas-hostage-situation-act-of-terrorism-targeting-the-jewish-community\/","title":{"rendered":"FBI Director Calls Texas Hostage Situation &#039;Act of Terrorism Targeting the Jewish Community&#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\">26<\/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-director-calls-texas-hostage-situation-act-of-terrorism-targeting-the-jewish-community%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=1229342&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 FBI director has now called the Texas synagogue hostage situation this past Saturday an&nbsp;\u201cact of terrorism targeting the Jewish community\u201d after downplaying the antisemitic motives.<\/p>\n<p class=\"speakable\">Speaking to the Anti-Defamation League during a webinar on Wednesday, FBI Director Christopher Wray said the agency has been treating the events as an act of terrorism against Jews.<\/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>\u201cNow let me be clear and blunt, the FBI is, and has been, treating Saturday\u2019s events as an act of terrorism targeting the Jewish community,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/us\/fbi-director-calls-texas-hostage-situation-act-of-terrorism-targeting-the-jewish-community\">Wray said<\/a>. \u201cWithin a matter of hours, we deployed FBI SWAT, two highly trained units from our elite Hostage Rescue Team; those are the folks who ultimately were the ones who went into the synagogue, along with canines.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Last Saturday,&nbsp;44-year-old British national Malik Faisal Akram was shot dead after taking four people hostage at the&nbsp;Beth Israel synagogue in Texas for nearly 11 hours.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">A video shot by a Dallas ABC news crew shows the final moments of the near 12-hour standoff at the Congregation Beth Israel synagogue late Saturday night. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/IXCiHbVuvf\">https:\/\/t.co\/IXCiHbVuvf<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Breitbart News (@BreitbartNews) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BreitbartNews\/status\/1482733164187602950?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 16, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p>Malik allegedly took hostages to secure the release of convicted Pakistani terrorist Aafia Siddiqu, a.k.a. Lady al-Qaeda. At the time,&nbsp;<u>FBI<\/u>&nbsp;Special Agent in Charge Matt DeSarno said that \u201cthe Texas synagogue hostage taker\u2019s demands were specifically focused on issues not connected to the Jewish community.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>However, evidence <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/middle-east\/2022\/01\/20\/fucking-jews-last-words-of-hostage-taker-deemed-not-targeting-jews-by-fbi\/\">later surfaced<\/a> that Malik indeed had antisemitic motives for the attack and told his brother in a phone conversation prior to his death that \u201cf***ing Jews\u201d were rapists of Muslim women and children.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhy do these f***ing motherf***ers come to our countries, rape our women and f*** our kids?\u201d Malik told his brother. \u201cI\u2019m setting a precedent \u2026 maybe they\u2019ll have compassion for f***ing Jews.\u201d<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_19514178\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/AP22016488021879.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-19514178\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/AP22016488021879.jpg\" alt=\"Police stand in front of the Congregation Beth Israel synagogue, Sunday, Jan. 16, 2022, in Colleyville, Texas. A man held hostages for more than 10 hours Saturday inside the temple. The hostages were able to escape and the hostage taker was killed. FBI Special Agent in Charge Matt DeSarno said a team would investigate &quot;the shooting incident.&quot; (AP Photo\/Brandon Wade)\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>Police stand in front of the Congregation Beth Israel synagogue, Sunday, Jan. 16, 2022, in Colleyville, Texas.&nbsp; (AP Photo\/Brandon Wade)<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>When Malik\u2019s brother tried to convince him to surrender, he responded, \u201cLive your f***ing life bro,&nbsp;you f***ing coward. We\u2019re coming to f***ing America. F*** them if they want to f*** with us. We\u2019ll give them f***ing war.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>During the webinar on Wednesday, Christopher Wray said that the Jewish community faces threats&nbsp;\u201cacross the hate spectrum\u201d and that the FBI&nbsp;considers \u201cthe enduring threats to the Jewish community to be among our very highest priorities,\u201d according to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/us\/fbi-director-calls-texas-hostage-situation-act-of-terrorism-targeting-the-jewish-community\">Fox News<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The FBI director has now called the Texas synagogue hostage situation this past Saturday an\u00a0\u201cact of terrorism targeting the Jewish community\u201d after downplaying the antisemitic motives. Speaking to the Anti-Defamation &#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-1229342","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\/1229342","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=1229342"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1229342\/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=1229342"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1229342"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1229342"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}