Two people were killed and several others injured when a man launched an attack outside a synagogue in Manchester during Yom Kippur, the holiest day in the Jewish calendar.
Greater Manchester Police said the incident began when a car was driven into pedestrians gathered near the Heaton Park Hebrew Congregation Synagogue in Crumpsall. The attacker then attempted to stab worshippers with a knife while wearing what appeared to be an explosive vest.
Armed officers arrived at the scene within seven minutes and shot the suspect dead. The vest was later found to be non-viable.
The assailant was identified as Jihad Al-Shamie, 35, a British citizen of Syrian descent. Counter-terrorism police confirmed the incident is being treated as a terrorist attack.
At least three people were seriously injured and taken to hospital, while two victims were pronounced dead at the scene.
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Sir Keir’s insincerity
Immediately after the Manchester Attack, Sir Keir Starmer vowed to guarantee the security of Jews in Britain, but in a strange form of words. Speaking after a Cobra security meeting, he said: ‘To every Jewish person in this country, I also want to say this: I know how much fear you will be holding inside of you, I really do.’
The emphasis of ‘I really do’ reeks of insincerity. It calls to mind the old adage: ‘Never trust anyone who says “Trust me”.’
The Prime Minister went on, ‘And so I promise you that I will do everything in my power to guarantee you the security that you deserve, starting with a more visible police presence, protecting your community. I promise you that over the coming days, you will see the other Britain, the Britain of compassion, of decency, of love.
‘I promise you that this Britain will come together to wrap our arms around your community and show you that Britain is a place where you and your family are safe, secure and belong.’
Israel blames Keir Starmer
ITV news reports that Israel’s foreign minister has blamed the UK Government for the Manchester synagogue attack. Sir Keir Starmer has failed to curb ‘rampant antisemitic and anti-Israeli incitement in Britain’in the wake of the massacre in Israel almost two years ago on 7th October 2023.
Foreign Minister Gideon Sa’ar said Israel expects ‘more than words from the Starmer government’ and demanded a ‘change of course’ on tackling anti-Jewish hatred.
Chief Rabbi Sir Ephraim Mirvis said the attack in Crumpsall, north Manchester, was the ‘tragic result’ of an ‘unrelenting wave of Jew hatred on our streets, campuses, on social media and elsewhere’.
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Flotilla more important than murder
Christian Voice National Director Stephen Green said today: ‘Sir Keir’s expressions of sympathy are creepy and disingenous. In reality, this is how Sir Keir has wrapped his arms and his ‘British values’ around the UK’s Jews: He has criticised the State of Israel for defending itself, restricted arms shipments, banned Israeli officials from a major arms exhibition, allowed antisemitic marches and flags in our streets and recognised a “palestinian state”. He has thrown Britain’s Jews under a London bus. Sir Keir Starmer’s police force are still allowing even more antisemitic, pro-Hamas demonstrations and refusing to condemn those with no moral compass taking part.’
This time, in London, we read: ‘A total of 40 people were arrested, the Met said. The majority of arrests were for breaching the conditions of the protest, while six protesters were detained for assaults on police officers.’
Those turning up still managed to find the self-serving ‘Sumud’ flotilla of more importance than the deaths and bloody assaults on security guards and worshippers at the Heaton Park synagogue. Fiona Smith, 42, told The Telegraph: “I don’t give a f— about the Jewish community right now. I thought about it and I’m sorry about what happened, but the whole story and why we’re here is because of what happened yesterday [with the flotilla].”
‘Sumud’ is Arabic for ‘steadfastness’ but conveys a political strategy of active resistance, in other words, in Islamic terms, of violence.
The truth is that the Israel defence Force fed and watered Greta and her keffiyeh-wearing pals after their arrest. Brendan O’Neill in the Telegraph wrote: ‘Yesterday Israel handed out one million meals to suffering Gazans through the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation. Just think about that: as Greta Thunberg and her smug chums were sailing towards Gaza with paltry supplies, the state they hate was feeding Palestinian families.
‘As Leftists across the West cried “All eyes on the flotilla!”, in anticipation of Israel’s interception, young, nameless IDF soldiers were quietly securing the distribution of meals for the needy.
‘Yet still Israel is defamed as the “starver” of Palestinians while these preening sailors who delivered not so much as a crumb of food to Gaza are hailed as heroes. Israel provides food and yet is depicted as Gaza’s demonic destroyer. The sea-faring narcissists provide nothing and yet they’re celebrated as Gaza’s saviours.’
Attacker was called ‘Jihad’
The BBC are reporting the police have named the man who carried out the attack which left two Jewish people dead and three others injured as Jihad Al-Shamie, a 35-year-old British man of Syrian descent.
The BBC say: ‘No referrals related to Al-Shamie had been made to Prevent – the government’s anti-radicalisation scheme.’
In addition, ‘It is understood that Al-Shamie entered the UK as a young child, and was granted British citizenship in 2006 as a minor.’
Scripture makes very clear that the purpose of government is to protect the people from evil-doers:
Rom 13:4 For he (the ruler) is the minister of God to thee for good. But if thou do that which is evil, be afraid; for he beareth not the sword in vain: for he is the minister of God, a revenger to execute wrath upon him that doeth evil.
Al-Shamie was shot dead at the scene, but not until after he had attacked the innocent. We have to ask, ‘How many other Muslims are waiting to follow this man on the path of jihad’? His very name spelt trouble and violence.
Multiculturalism is to blame
Migration Policy Institute show that Tony Blair began the policy of encouraging immigration by Muslims around 2000, with the Nationality, Immigration and Asylum Act 2002. The policy was continued under David Cameron, by Theresa May, enthusiastically by Boris Johnson in the ‘Boris wave’, when the illegal entrants really started arriving, by Rishi Sunak and now continues under Keir Starmer.
It was supported by the policy of multiculturalism which it is hard not to see as designed to dilute our Christian heritage, culture and constitution over the last twenty-five years. Hence the replacement of an understanding of a homogenous British community by the current use among ministers and mayors of the plural ‘our communities’.
When will our elite realise that encouraging Muslim immigration, both legal and illegal, has put the British population at unimaginable risk? Not just Thursday’s attack, but the London bombings of 2005, the Manchester Arena attack of 2017, the Westminster knife attacks. When will they begin actively to reverse the policy?
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Read and pray
READ: Isa 26:2; 1Sam 13:14; Judges 10:13; Psa 9:17; Numb 32:23; Numb 35:30-31; Ezek 18:30; Jer 26:13; 2Chr 7:14.
PRAY: Pray for the families of the deceased.
Pray for the Jewish community.
Pray for peace in Manchester
Pray for our leaders to lead in wisdom and the fear of God.
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Thank you for a thought provoking article which will hopefully encourage prayer. Just one typo spotted: “Tony Blair began the policy of encouraging immigration by Muslims around 2020.” I expect you really mean the 2002 Nationality, Immigration and Asylum Act.
Correct! Thanks.