ISIS likely motivated Texas synagogue hostage taking

 Raymond Ibrahim:

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But the aforementioned Rocket.Chat communiqués, which appeared in December 2021, had another message:

Imagine with me, brothers, if Muslim refugees in Crusader Europe took hostages while the pigs [Christians] celebrate their polytheistic holidays and forced the European crusaders to order their angry dogs to release our sisters from the Al-Hawl and Ain Issa camps or else they would cut off the pigs' heads.

This suggested scenario almost perfectly conforms to the actions of Malik Faisal Akram, who, before holding a synagogue in Texas hostage, was investigated in Britain for his known "radical" links — links that almost certainly suggest he visited, and was influenced by, sites such as Rocket.Chat. 

Akram did, however, make one minor alteration: he took hostage, not the "pigs" (one of Islam's epithets for Christians), but rather their partners in the infamous "Crusader-Zionist" alliance, the "apes" (one of Islam's epithet for Jews).  He did so not while Christians "celebrate their polytheistic holidays," but rather while Jews, whom Islam also accuses of polytheism, worshiped on their holy day, the Sabbath.  And he did it all, as ISIS had declared on Rocket.Chat, "to release our sisters," with Lady al-Qaeda — whom Akram repeatedly referred to as a "sister" — being the poster child of female Muslim prisoners.

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There is more.

It seems consistent wit the radical Islam MO.