No sooner had the Justice Department opened a new domestic terrorism unit to fight “an elevated threat” from American citizens holding “anti-government and anti-authority ideologies” than a British-born Muslim held Jewish worshipers hostage inside a synagogue. The 44-year-old jihadist said he was holding Rabbi Charlie Cytron-Walker and three others inside the Congregation Beth Israel in Colleyville, Texas, in hopes of freeing imprisoned, Pakistani-born terrorist Aafia Siddiqui, who is nicknamed “Lady al-Qaeda.” Puzzlingly, the FBI initially claimed this act of terror “was not,” in the words of FBI Special Agent in Charge Matt DeSarno, “specifically related to the Jewish community.” To his credit, President Joe Biden insisted, “This was an act of terror” motivated by anti-Semitism, and the FBI corrected the record the next day to read, “This is a terrorism-related matter, in which the Jewish community was targeted.”
Unfortunately, the FBI’s initial denial of reality represents an improvement over the Left’s reaction to other acts of Islamic terrorism, which erased not only the anti-Semitic subtext but denied those deadly attacks were acts of terrorism. Instead, leftists dismissed mass murders as acts of stress-related “workplace violence” or claimed the gunman’s motives seemed indecipherable, even as he shouted, “Allahu akbar!” Here are a few such incidents:
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