10 lessons from the Manchester synagogue attack
Bare Facts
Jihad Al-Shamie, a 35 year old British Syrian attacked a Jewish synagogue in Manchester on Yom Kippur killing one man and injuring about three more before he was himself killed by counter-terror police.
I proceed to highlight the following lessons from this incident and its fall out.
Lessons
- Handing a person a British passport does not automatically make them British
Jihad Al-Shamie had a British passport, he had been given citizenship. However, his true allegiance was never to Britain or to the king, but rather to the ideology that drove him. The idea literally represented in his name.
So when Shabana Mahmood gives the British public a lecture on who is English and who is not. When she implies that somebody that looks like her and has a faith like hers can be British, Jihad Al-Shamie calls that into very serious question. Somebody with ill intentions towards your country does not automatically become a lover of your country because you have handed a passport to them.
Imagine with me that some three days before this guy carried out this attack, the government had said that despite the fact he is a citizen and has been in the UK since the early 2000s, some concerns over his past behaviour (as we will look into shortly) now means his citizenship will be revoked and he will be deported to Syria. Can you see the human rights lawyers falling over each other to take up his case? Can you see the mainstream media crying out “Islamophobia! racism! against the British system of fair play!” nonstop? Can you hear the Muslim Council of Britain putting out statements condemning the move? Now we see why mass deportations even of those who have been in the country a while is not as crazy an idea as it sounds!
2. An immigrant could be a lawyer, doctor and also a terrorist?
It was also discovered that his father Faraj Al-Shamie, a surgeon in the UK, supported the October 7th HAMAS massacre, calling those who perpetrated the rape and murder of Jews, “true men of Allah on the earth”. He has a social media history that reveals he was no lover of the Jews.
One of the defences of continued immigration we hear is “But they contribute to the economy! they work as lawyers and doctors!”. What the father of Jihad has just shown is that there is not a contradiction between an immigrant working and contributing to the economy and being a terrorist sympathizer. None whatsoever!
In fact we saw doctors in Australia saying they kill their Jewish patients (unsure if they were just bluffing or serious). In the UK, a Jewish child was deprived of treatment by the NHS…because he is a Jew. In fact, we even saw the British NHS for a brief moment extol the virtues of cousin marriage saying it fosters familial bond and has economic benefits before it was taken down due to intense backlash. Again, it does not matter what somebody does for a living, their overarching ideology defines them!
When ISIS called for Jihad, Muslims from various countries around the world trooped in to join their ranks. I am sure some of them were also hard working people contributing to the economy. But is their contribution to the economy worth the risk they pose to society because of their ideologies?
3. There really is no appeasing Jihad
The UK government has spent years pandering to and appeasing the Muslim population of the country. Whether by way of protecting their religion from criticism, looking the other way when its own young girls were raped and gangraped by men predominantly from that community, arresting and persecuting people that drew attention to said grooming gangs or doing absolutely nothing to protect people whose lives are under threat for daring to offend their religion or letting a man who threatened another man with a knife while attacking him, spitting at him and saying “I will kill you!” walk without a custodial sentence.
Keir Starmer took the pandering one step further by, contrary to the very same international law he claims to love and respect so much that he will let unvetted and unchecked men live at tax payer’s expense in hotels and accommodation across the country, recognised Palestine. This “kind hearted gesture” had absolutely no bearing on Jihad Al-Shamie and his intentions towards the Jewish synagogue or his perception of Jews.
The very same day this terror attack was carried out, there were pro-Palestine protests on the streets of, get this, Manchester just hours later. The state of Palestine recognized and two innocent dead Jews later, the Pro-Palestine mob is still not quelled. To quote the words of Benjamin Netanyahu to the governments who recognized Palestine, “You cannot appease your way out of Jihad!”
Nothing short of turning the United Kingdom into the United Caliphate will appease those who take Islam seriously.
And make no mistake, these Pro Palestine marches are about Jihad against Israel and the west, the goings on in the middle east is a pretext.
4. Pro Palestine marches are not about Palestine
The bulk of Pro Palestine slogans are not about the sufferings of the Palestinians or their right to self-determination. I see you shaking your head in disagreement. Sure those things are relevant but only relevant in as much as it demonizes and vilifies Israel and Jews.
We have seen Jihad called for on the streets of London and the MET police explaining that Jihad can have a variety of meanings and is not necessarily linked with terrorism.
We have heard things like “Hitler knew how to deal with these people!” and “From the river to the sea” from these marches. What exactly do these kinds of rhetoric provoke? Are these not genocidal chants? There tends not to be any mention of HAMAS, any calls for them to release hostage or surrender, all the focus is on Israel, why is that though?
Because the very idea of Palestine exists solely as a means to wage war on Israel, nothing else. There is no such thing as the indigenous peoples of Palestine and if Israel had lost the 1948 war, the region in question would only have Egypt, Jordan and Syria.
Even Zuheir Mohsen, an executive member of PLO, was very clear on this point,
“The Palestinian people do not exist. The creation of a Palestinian state is only a means for continuing our struggle against the state of Israel for our Arab unity. In reality today there is no difference between Jordanians, Palestinians, Syrians and Lebanese. Only for political and tactical reasons do we speak today about the existence of a Palestinian people, since Arab national interests demand that we posit the existence of a distinct ‘Palestinian people’ to oppose Zionism. Yes, the existence of a separate Palestinian identity exists only for tactical reasons…”
If this is the case, it follows that the very cause these marches are based on is fundamentally opposition to the Jews. So Pro-Palestine by definition is anti-Jewish and anti-Israel.
What exactly is the logic of protesting the arrest of Greta Thunberg? The Vatican had already told her if she had aid for Gaza, they should hand it to them and they would make sure it gets into Gaza. No unauthorised person can just sail into a combat zone at will, an arrest was the only logical outcome of such an endeavour. How in the world is this grounds for protest? In fact one of the protesters stated that they could not care less about the Jewish community at this time and what happened to Greta Thunberg was more important.
I ask again, is this really about Palestine?
Another protest is planned for today (the weekend after this attack on Jews) and Shabana Mahmoud, the home secretary has stated she has no legal power to cancel the protest (I call bull on this, if I wanted to have a march calling for the death of homosexuals or for all Muslims to be deported, I am sure she would find legal rights to cancel that quick like).
And speaking of the government,
5. Keir Starmer’s response is very different from Southport but also very similar
During the Southport riots in the previous year, Keir Starmer was very quick to condemn the riots and talk about the motive for the unrest. It was “far-right thuggery”. Never mind a good number of those people were concerned every day citizens fed up of uncontrolled mass migration and the assaults being committed by illegal immigrants, they were all far right thugs!
When it comes to this terror attack by a guy named Jihad, there is absolutely no mention of what could have motivated the attack by Starmer. Again it is similar to Southport where people were jailed for speculating on Axel Rudabakana’s motives but later revelation proved them right. In that instance as well Keir Starmer did not mention one word about Islam and the role it played via the Al-Qaeda manual found in Axel’s possession. He instead moved to ban ninja swords!
Not only that, Starmer had very quick responses to the riots, mobilising the police, the courts and law enforcement (and yes, increasing government funding for mosques) to crack down on these protests. But other than increasing security around Jewish synagogues and very meaningless words, nothing else was done.
But this is not the only time the government of Starmer has had a two-tiered approach to things.
7. Labour’s response to the pro Palestine protests after the terror attack is very different from the response to Tommy Robinson’s rally.
Keir Starmer and Shabana Mahmood were very quick to point out the motives and motivations of those who attended Tommy Robinson’s September 13th rally. Suggesting some of them were heirs to the skinheads and Paki-bashers of old. They endlessly highlighted the fact that there were 25 arrests (out of over a million or 150k according to mainstream media figures) made. There has been radio silence from Shabana Mahmoud, Sadiq Kahn and Keir Starmer on the protests hours after the terror attack on Jews despite the fact there were 40 arrests, on massively smaller numbers than the Tommy Robinson rally.
Speaking of Shabana Mahmood,
8. Shabana Mahmood’s tame response and attempt to single out Jihad
Shabana Mahmoud was also at pains to stress that only the perpetrator of the terror attack, Jihad, is responsible for what happened.
Issue though is that these Pro Palestine marches themselves are cesspools of festering Jewish hate. Shabana herself has been to these marches. She at some point joined a protest that prevented a Sainsbury’s from operating at peak business hours because they were in her words as I understand them, supporting goods from the Israeli settlements. These marches themselves are part of the enabling atmosphere that led to the terror attacks on the Jewish community.
Also, Shabana, as a Muslim, should very well know that her religion, her prophet and her religious primary sources all lend themselves to promoting Jew hatred. (Surah 5:51, 82, 9:29). Her prophet hated Jews so much he taught that the day of judgment will not come until the Jews are fought,
“Narrated Abu Huraira:
Allah’s Messenger (ﷺ) said, “The Hour will not be established until you fight with the Jews, and the stone behind which a Jew will be hiding will say. “O Muslim! There is a Jew hiding behind me, so kill him.”
(Sahih Bukhari 2926)
In fact, her prophet blamed the Jews for food decay,
“Narrated Abu Huraira:
The Prophet (ﷺ) said, “But for the Israelis, meat would not decay and but for Eve, wives would never betray their husbands.”
(Sahih Bukhari 3330)
That is how much he hated them!
Jihad Al-Shamie was following the teachings and example of her prophet. So to say that ONLY Jihad bears responsibility for what he did is nonsense. Her government bears responsibility for not taking control of Pro Palestine marches, for allowing calls for violence against the Jews to ring on the streets, she bears responsibility for attending these marches and doing nothing to “bring down the temperature” among people sharing this fundamentally anti-Jewish sentiment and her prophet bears responsibility for influencing millions of people world wide to hate the Jews and see them as a people to be exterminated for the sake of Allah.
9. The current government will do absolutely nothing about this going forward
From the very robotic statements by Keir Starmer and Shabana Mahmood, to David Lammy’s abysmal speech to the Manchester Jewish community, it is very clear what the government will do going forward. Absolutely nothing!
The messaging seems to be let us grieve this but not be divided, we are a tolerant country and we will move on. This ignores the obvious problem which has not been mentioned once by any government official, Islam! Islam has quite a presence in the UK and for as long as Islam remains a force that is being protected and cuddled by highfalutin politicians whose daily lives are unburdened from its tangible adverse effects on UK streets, these attacks will happen again and again, while the government and in particular Starmer, continues to bang on about how the country is a beautiful country, a tolerant country and a diverse country.
Will this incident cause Labour to be stronger on borders and perhaps as Donald Trump suggested, deploy the military? Of course not!
Will there be a realistic and honest discussion about Islam? Don’t be ridiculous!
Will Faraj Al-Shamie (Jihad’s father) have his citizenship revoked and be deported to Syria along with his dependants? Are you a heartless monster??
Will this cause the government to pause on its scheme to bring in “students” and injured kids from Gaza as well as their relatives? Are you Hitler for even daring to utter those words?
Will they rethink recognising Palestine? Proscribe the Muslim Brotherhood perhaps? Goodluck with that!
Nothing will change…the government will move on from this very quickly and gaslight British citizens who do not do the same.
10. Islam is a religion of rape and murder
It also emerged that the perpetrator Jihad Al-Shamie, was on bail after committing rape. Which again perfectly corroborates my earlier article on why Islam is a religion of rape and murder (linked below). If you think this is an unfair representation of Islam based on one isolated incident, then I recommend you have a look at the article and prove me wrong if you can.
Conclusion
There needs to be a national open discourse on Islam, there really is no other way forward. There is a reason it is overwhelmingly and disproportionately responsible for terror attacks on UK soil.
The government has blood on its hands and kind words are nowhere near enough.
Finally, what exactly are the moderate Muslims doing to root out the extremists in their midst?
