The Synagogue Attack Isn't About 'Rising Antisemitism.' It's Part of a Wave of Anti-American Islamic Terrorism Sweeping the Nation
This isn’t about antisemitism. It’s about what unites the Jews and America, the values that weave us into the fabric of this nation.
On March 1, a gunman wearing a sweatshirt reading “Property of Allah” killed two people and wounded 14 in a bar in Austin, Texas.
On March 8, two men declared their allegiance to ISIS, screamed Allahu Akbar, and threw IEDs into a crowd in New York City at an anti-Muslim protest and counter-protest.
Today, a man convicted in the past of providing material support to ISIS screamed Allahu Akbar and shot up a classroom in Norfolk, Virginia, killing Lt. Col. Brandon Shah, a Professor of Military Science and a veteran of Operation Iraqi Freedom, Operation Enduring Freedom, and Atlantic Resolve.
Hours later, a Lebanese man drove a car full of explosives into a synagogue outside Detroit, Michigan, and by the grace of God, was killed by armed security before he succeeded in murdering the 140 children in the preschool down the hall.
We are in a wave of Islamist terror in America.
The media is already trying to spin these episodes as opposition to the war in Iran. Don’t buy it. That’s just a way to blame Trump—and in effect, excuse the violence. The FBI is investigating whether any of these are the result of activated Iranian sleeper cells, but it just doesn’t seem that coordinated to me. Others are decrying the synagogue attack as a symptom of a larger “rise in antisemitism.” But just one of the attacks was at a synagogue.
This isn’t about antisemitism. It’s about what unites the Jews and America—the values that weave us inextricably into the fabric of this nation.
The enemies of America are the enemies of the Jews—and vice versa.
What united these five men was a hatred of America and an ingratitude to the nation that gave them the greatest privilege on earth: U.S. citizenship.
The Austin shooter, Ndiaga Diagne, is a Senegalese immigrant who became a naturalized a U.S. citizen in 2013.
Emir Balat’s parents are Turkish citizens who were naturalized in the U.S. 10 years ago, along with their son.
Ibrahim Kayumi’s parents are from Afghanistan and were naturalized 15 years ago.
Mohammed Jalloh was a naturalized U.S. citizen from Sierra Leone.
Ayman Ghazaleh was a naturalized US citizen from Lebanon.
These terrorists are the result of an insane open-door immigration policy that has welcomed into our national hearth those who hate us and everything we stand for.
That policy was epitomized by a clip from the Saturday protests, in which a Leftist protestor is interrupted in his speech insisting all are welcome in New York by the child of immigrants literally using him to hurl a bomb into a crowd of civilians.
It was caught on tape:
This is what we’re fighting—not just the terrorists but those who cannot understand the danger posed by opening your door to people who hate you. People who refuse to accept the danger posed by a fraying national fabric—who fail to recognize what makes us unique, cohesive, and great.
It’s not our “diversity.” It’s the instinct that made the young cadets band together to take down Mohammed Jalloh with just a knife. It’s the instinct that allowed security guards at a synagogue kill Ayman Ghazaleh before those precious babies were hurt. It’s the instinct that made 30 police officers end up at the hospital being treated for smoke inhalation for storming the synagogue inferno to make sure the danger had subsided.
It’s what made Lt. Col. Brandon Shah deploy to defend his country again and again and again—while that country was importing and naturalizing the enemy who killed him, in the ultimate betrayal.
Love you Batya but your wrong. It's both.
Interpreting the reasons behind terrorist attacks is important, but way beyond the caricatures normally trotted out in the news. So, you are right in a sense, but you would need to go far deeper into Geopolitics and culture.