By Abdul Masih —
A naturalized British (apparently) Muslim rammed Jews outside a Manchester synagogue with his car and then got out of his car and started stabbing more Jews, leaving two dead and at least three injured on Oct. 2.
Metropolitan Police shot and killed the suspect, identified as Jihad Al-Shamie, 35, who came from Syria when he was 6. He had been released on parole under investigation for rape.
Police said they are looking for a motive in the terror attack, but antisemitism has been rising to toxic levels not only in the U.K. but around the world, with Islamists taking a front role (along with progressives) in spreading hate. At the same time, the U.K. has an ongoing national enquiry into what it calls the roll of “Asian” men (usually Muslims from Pakistan) in grooming gangs raping young girls.
Islam allows for men to marry girls as young as 9 years old, and Muslim propagandists (such as Zakir Naik) blame girls for being raped because of they way they dress.
According to police, Jihad Al-Shamie attacked Heaton Park Hebrew Congregation Synagogue on Yom Kippur, a Jewish holy day.
Immediately after, raucous Palestinian protesters flooded Trafalgar Square and Downing Street of London in what appeared to many as related Islamist hatred and anger. Demonstration organizers condemned the attack on the synagogue but ignored Prime Minister Keir Starmer’s plea to postpone their protests out of respect for the grieving victims.
It wasn’t a good look at all. In fact, a lot people thought it was coordinated. Officials deny coordination. Protesters were manifesting their anger over the U.K. banning the group Palestine Action under anti-terrorism laws.
The dead victims were named as Adrian Daulby, 53, and Melvin Cravitz, 66, both from Crumpsall.
Additionally, three others were arrested Thursday on suspicion of the preparation or commission of acts of terrorism. They are two men in their 30s and a woman in her 60s.
“Antisemitism is a hatred that is rising, once again. Britain must defeat it, once again,” Starmer said. “To every Jewish person in this country: I promise that I will do everything in my power to guarantee you the security you deserve.”
More than 1,500 incidents of antisemitism were reported in the first half of the year, the second-highest reported since the record set a year earlier, according to Community Security Trust, a watchdog of British Jews.
