Posted on 01/18/2022 2:15:32 PM PST by E. Pluribus Unum
(CNSNews.com) – Former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee appeared to take a dig at Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn) on Monday when he asked how we can “expect to keep America-hating, anti-Semitic terrorists out of our synagogues when we can't even keep them out of Congress.”
Huckabee was referencing the hostage standoff at a Jewish synagogue in Dallas, Texas, during which a terrorist took four people hostage before being killed.
The FBI was criticized for saying that Malik Faisal Akram was “singularly focused on one issue, and it was not specifically related to the Jewish community.” They said that Akram had spoken repeatedly about Aafia Siddiqu “a convicted terrorist who is serving an 86-year prison sentence in the United States on terrorism charges.”
“I don't want to take anything away from the FBI agents who helped end the crisis, but let's give credit where credit is due. The real hero here was that young rabbi who literally put his life on the line and took action throwing the chair in order to give those other parishioners an opportunity to get out,” Huckabee told Fox News’s “Hannity.”
“He very well could have died because that shooter could have decided, okay, he has allowed them to get away, he’s not going to get away. He is a hero. He really is,” the former governor said.
“And Sean, I’ve got a question maybe I’d love to ask the FBI. How are we going to expect to keep America-hating, anti-Semitic terrorists out of our synagogues when we can't even keep them out of Congress? And a lot of this behavior is justified by people who sit in Congress today, and that is a tragedy,” he said.
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And that’s because we didn’t keep them out of our country.
Way to go Huck! I love it!!! Right on.
For sure for sure good buddy
Good question!
HA! good one, Mike!!!
What about Tlaib/
“how we can “expect to keep America-hating, anti-Semitic terrorists out of our synagogues when we can’t even keep them out of Congress.”
God Bless this man and his family. He’s way too good to be president of this dysfunctional group of states. I’m glad he didnt make it. He’s much better as a snark launcher!
Good one!
Great question. Ask all your Jewish friends and acquaintances this.
Good one.
But Huckabee should know better than to refer these congregants as parishioners.
Huckabee explaining “What I really meant was...” in three...two...one.
Why?
-— “But Huckabee should know better than to refer these congregants as parishioners.”
Yup. Now they’re called ex-Democrat voters.
Jews...Catholics...to-may-to...to-mah-to.
Yup. Now they’re called ex-Democrat voters.
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don’t bet on it
I can excuse some man-on-the-street for making such a mistake, but Huckabee has been around enough that he should be better with choosing words. And it’s not as if someone caught him on the fly. He knew he would be on Blowhard Hannity’s show and had prepared his words ahead of time.
Because those attending the synagogue belong to a congregation, but the synagogue is not referred to as a parish.
I know that but why would he necessarily know? He is not east coast.
Attendees are known as congregants.
Because Catholic and Episcopalian refer to their churches are 'parishes'. Jews and Protestants do not.
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