Posted on 01/16/2022 1:49:20 PM PST by Brilliant
The FBI is facing backlash on social media after an official said that the Texas synagogue hostage taker’s demands were "not specifically related to the Jewish community."
"The FBI is now an organization solely focused on destroying the domestic enemies of the Democratic Party," conservative talk radio show Jesse Kelly tweeted Sunday morning. "Any Republican Congress or Presidential candidate who doesn’t loudly proclaim his intention to massively reform or disband this organization should not be considered.
Kelly’s tweet came in response to the Associated Press reporting that FBI officials said "the Texas synagogue hostage taker's demands were specifically focused on issues not connected to the Jewish community."
"We do believe from our engaging with this subject that he was singularly focused on one issue, and it was not specifically related to the Jewish community. But we're continuing to work to find motive," FBI Special Agent in Charge Matt DeSarno said at a press conference.
The hostage taker, who has been identified as British national Malik Faisal Akram, took four hostages at Congregation Beth Israel in Colleyville, near Fort Worth on Saturday, the Jewish Sabbath.
He allegedly demanded the release of a Pakistani woman who is imprisoned in Texas on charges of trying to kill American service members in Afghanistan.
The FBI and Justice Department previously described the woman, Aafia Siddiqui, as an "al-Qaida operative and facilitator" at a May 2004 news conference. She is serving an 86-year prison sentence after being convicted in 2010 on charges that she sought to shoot U.S. military members while in Afghanistan two year earlier.
She has a history of anti-Semitism, including demanding that jurors in her case be DNA tested and removed "if they have a Zionist or Israeli background."…
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He targeted a synagogue because he knew it would be the only place in Texas where the hostages would be Democrats who are hell-bent on outlawing guns and wouldn’t be caught dead carrying firearms themselves.
I’m still convinced the communists want the FBI dismantled. The mistake is allowing the corruption to fester in all these organizations. It has metastasized and unfortunately only razing the FBI will rid us of the criminality (same for other govt agencies). Reforming through the current cast of characters will give us something that will NEVER expose corruption.
I suppose he was triple vaxxed.
What excuse did he 7se to get his visa?
How did he get to Colleyville and why that building?
The FBI response here is truly laughable. Whoever at the FBI thought this was the right thing to say needs to be fired.
The moment I read this I knew it was you.
Yeah but phew good thing he was not wearing a maga hat otherwise he would be in deep doggy doo doo
You are right in the sense that the Dems plot to destroy the FBI is to make it a political institution so the conservatives themselves will demand it be dismantled. Unfortunately their plan is working. We cannot tolerate an FBI that is a political instrumentality.
Yeah. He walked into the synagogue by mistake. He thought he was at a Wendy’s.
Whoever said this has to resign and the FBI needs to be investigated.
No noooo .... he wasn’t threatening the Jewish community... he just threatened some people who happened to be Jews who were in the midst of having a meeting in a building. This wasn’t an act of hate at all...
Ilhan Omar: “Right, yo, some people did somethin’”
Of course, all other things being equal, if he had demanded the release of the 1/6 political prisoners - I’m sure the fact that it happened in a synagogue would be page 1 news.
the alphabets have been bad actors for a very long time. They are beyond “reforming”.
Yes, those presntly in charge shouldn’t be the ones creating anything new or ‘purging’.
The ones now in charge of the country are there because of the alphabets.
You’re being facetious.
“But we’re continuing to work to find motive”
GOOD GRIEF - The MOTIVE IS CLEAR. Even if you want to downplay the hate aspect - the MOTIVE was to take a group of people hostage to negotiate the freedom of a prisoner.
That’s MOTIVE.
Taking the Jewish people hostage in the middle of prayer was MESSAGE.
“What is it you say you do here?”
Corrupt FBI should be eliminated? Hell, the entire US Justice Department should be eliminated! What a batch of rogues.
knew it was you........
hahahahhaaha. True dat.
LOL. And I despise the FBI. Better off leaving incidents like this in the hands of the Texas Rangers.
I've been trying to think of a single federal entity that isn't hopelessly compromised. All I can come up with is NIST.
LOL! but all my Jewish friends are big time MAGA gun owners!
One term of Obama they all did a 180.
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