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October 3, 2025 at 6:00 AM

His First Name Was ‘Jihad’

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UK's Counter Terrorism Police name Manchester synagogue attacker as Jihad Al-Shamie, a 35-year-old UK citizen, of Syrian descent.

This is my shocked face.

I listened to and watched several news reports this morning out of Britain, looking through GBN, BBC, or SkyNews — not a single one of them speculated on who the attacker, who was wearing a suicide bomb vest, could have been. A commentator on BBC News even articulated that the Jewish community in Britain was equally wary of those on the left and the fascist right. Are suicide vests a signature of fascist terrorists? There was much handwringing and pleas for people to be nicer to their neighbors. But the elephant in the room, illegal Islamic immigrants flooding into the country who don't assimilate — including one individual, a known Muslim Brotherhood bombmaker whom the Starmer government put up in a 4-star hotel and who later raped a young woman — was not addressed.

My guess is that law-abiding Britons may speak up and march in Manchester and other cities around the country very, very soon.

Here's the Daily Mail's story on this attack.

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    GrannyDude@GrannyDude·1y

    Every Christian in Britain should begin wearing a Jewish star every day, everwhere. And the men should don a kippah.

    And go to services, or gather quietly, peacefully and protectively around them during services.

    Going to my local synagogue tomorrow night.

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    Percival@Percival·1y
    Brian Watt (View Post):

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    Freedom of expression.

    Pull the other one, Keir.

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    GrannyDude@GrannyDude·1y

    See, everyone in Britain who hears about the woman getting arrested for posting the wrong thing...should promptly post exactly the same thing. A thousand people should go pray silently in front of the abortion clinic. While wearing a kippah and a star of David and an "I stand with Israel" t-shirt.

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    Charles Mark@CharlesMark·1y

    A couple of prominent ex-BBC types are concerned that this slaughter will be “weaponised by the Far Right”!

    The truth is that politicians and media have been channelling Hamas propaganda for the last two years, and now we have crocodile tears in the UK and here in Ireland, the “most Pro-Palestinian country in the World”.

    I feel just a little bit less safe today.

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    Miffed White Male@MiffedWhiteMale·1y

    Remember, "Jihad" just means "struggle".

    Just like the famous book "Mein Kampf".

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