Malik Faisal Akram

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NGO links social-media campaign to hostage crisis at Texas synagogue

February 10, 2022

A new study issued by the Network Contagion Research Institute documents that the terror situation came in the wake of a Twitter campaign for “Lady Al-Qaeda.”

Malik Faisal Akram. Source: OurCalling Homeless Shelter Photo.

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UK, Jewish groups demand YouTube remove sermons inciting anti-Semitism

February 2, 2022

Nadine Dorries, secretary of state for culture, media and sport in the United Kingdom, said: “YouTube has allowed its site to be used to incite racial violence and terrorism, and to profit from it. We will hold social-media companies to account for extremist ideologies online.”

Illustration: a person holding a smartphone with the YouTube app open. Credit: AngieYeoh/Shutterstock.

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Melanie PhillipsJanuary 20, 2022

The unspoken truths behind the Texas synagogue attack

British intelligence has much to answer for. But there’s also the question of how Malik Faisal Akram was allowed into America in the first place.

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Texas terrorist in final phone call: ‘F***ing Jews … I’ve come to die’

January 20, 2022

In the recording of the call he made from the Beth Israel synagogue to his brother in the United Kingdom, Malik Faisal Akram says he came to America on a jihadi mission.

Police at Congregation Beth Israel in Colleyville, Texas, during the taking of hostages, Jan. 15, 2022. Credit: News 360 TV via Wikimedia Commons.

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UK police arrest two in connection with Texas hostage crisis

January 17, 2022

British Foreign Minister Liz Truss condemns the attack as an “act of terrorism and anti-Semitism”; U.K. ambassador to the United States says the two countries “stand shoulder to shoulder in defiance of terrorism.”

Four congregants at Congregation Beth Israel, a Reform synagogue in Colleyville, Texas, were released after being held hostage for nearly 11 hours, Jan. 15, 2022. Source: Screenshot.

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TERROR IN SYNAGOGUE

‘I’m grateful to be alive’: Jewish world shaken in aftermath of Texas synagogue attack

Maayan HoffmanJanuary 16, 2022

“We are living in dangerous times,” says World Jewish Congress president Ronald S. Lauder; “we cannot afford to become complacent” • Conference of Presidents CEO William Daroff: “It is a reality of the times we live in that there is danger from the far-left, the far-right and Islamic extremists.”

Four congregants at Congregation Beth Israel, a Reform synagogue in Colleyville, Texas, were released after being held hostage for nearly 11 hours, Jan. 15, 2022. Source: Screenshot.

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