#also this is now my favorite example of Zionist as code for Jewish

[attackfish]

The FBI and Texas Department of Public Safety are assisting a hostage situation at a synagogue in Texas, where authorities say the suspect may be motivated by the desire to free a Pakistani scientist who was convicted of attempting to kill US officers in Afghanistan.

A law enforcement official familiar with the investigation told CNN there were believed to be four hostages, including a rabbi, at Congregation Beth Israel in Colleyville, just outside Fort Worth. Several hours into the standoff, Colleyville Police Sgt. Dara Nelson said one hostage had been released.

Two law enforcement officials told CNN that investigators believe the hostage taker may have been motivated by a desire to release Aafia Sidiqqui, who is serving an 86-year sentence at a facility in Texas. She was convicted in 2010 on seven charges, including attempted murder and armed assault on US officers in Afghanistan.

Not mentioned in the article, but relevant to why the hostage chose to target a synagogue, is that Sidiqqui alleged that the charges against her were a Jewish conspiracy, refused to work with the lawyers the Pakistani embassy hired for her because two of them were Jewish, and tried to demand that jurors take DNA tests to prove they didn't have a "Zionist" background. She also wrote a letter to President Obama in which she called the Jewish people back stabbers and blamed us for the Holocaust, and other acts of antisemitism throughout history. The hostage taker plainly agrees with her on this, and I suppose, decided to attack the people that he, and Sidiqqui (who we have no reason to believe is involved, except as a motivating factor) see as the puppet masters.

This is antisemitism all the way down, of course.

Shabbat Shalom, everyone. We can only hope this situation resolves without bloodshed, and that all of the hostages will soon be free to return to their loved ones unharmed.

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