Offering examples of the threat faced by the Jewish community, Mr Wray cited a man who was arrested in Texas last week for trying to build a bomb and posting about his support for killing Jews, and another man who was arrested in Illinois for killing a six-year-old Muslim boy.
Was him being arrested antisemitic?
Not saying antisemitism isn’t on the rise, the bomb story sounds horrific, but it seems like islamaphobia also is and the article seems to gloss over it completely until it tries to pass off an example of it as antisemitism.
The article is poorly written. Wray’s comments were talking about “violent domestic extremists targeting Jewish or Muslim communities, such as…”
He does elsewhere talk about the specific rise in antisemitism and disproportionate recent increase of threats against Jews, including as called for by foreign terrorist organizations.
So the overall article theme isn’t incorrect.
But his primary focus was on how events in the Middle East might lead to violence against Americans, and was discussing both Jewish and Muslim Americans in the part of his speech those examples were pulled from.
It was kind of hard finding information on this case as everyone wants to talk about the little boy that died. I didnt do a lot of digging but here is some info I could find..
Shaheen told investigators that when first confronted by Czuba over the violence in the Holy Land, she told him, “Let’s pray for peace.”
I dont understand how someone could say ‘lets pray for peace’ that would lead a guy into a murderous rampage. I would say my bullshit detector is going off and she probably insinuated that this guy is a murdererous jew for his name and time in the military/his involvement and it set him off. I am also reading some other stuff trying to debunk him being jewish but i dont know what the altercation was about. I understand its a shitty thing to think but I can see how it might be antisemitism but it might just be good old fashioned Islamophobia. I dont want to judge but he looks like a regular crazy white guy.
Was him being arrested antisemitic?
Not saying antisemitism isn’t on the rise, the bomb story sounds horrific, but it seems like islamaphobia also is and the article seems to gloss over it completely until it tries to pass off an example of it as antisemitism.
The article is poorly written. Wray’s comments were talking about “violent domestic extremists targeting Jewish or Muslim communities, such as…”
He does elsewhere talk about the specific rise in antisemitism and disproportionate recent increase of threats against Jews, including as called for by foreign terrorist organizations.
So the overall article theme isn’t incorrect.
But his primary focus was on how events in the Middle East might lead to violence against Americans, and was discussing both Jewish and Muslim Americans in the part of his speech those examples were pulled from.
It was kind of hard finding information on this case as everyone wants to talk about the little boy that died. I didnt do a lot of digging but here is some info I could find..
I dont understand how someone could say ‘lets pray for peace’ that would lead a guy into a murderous rampage. I would say my bullshit detector is going off and she probably insinuated that this guy is a murdererous jew for his name and time in the military/his involvement and it set him off. I am also reading some other stuff trying to debunk him being jewish but i dont know what the altercation was about. I understand its a shitty thing to think but I can see how it might be antisemitism but it might just be good old fashioned Islamophobia. I dont want to judge but he looks like a regular crazy white guy.
This man stabbed a 6 year old boy 26 times. I don’t care what the mother said to the man. Stabbing a child 26 times is psychopathic.
Ah yes, if someone calls you a murderer becoming one is the logical next step. /s