Monday, 6 October 2025

With a name like Jihad Al-Shamie, how could you not be on somebody's watchlist?

 

Jihad Al-Shamie

If you're single and want your own council house in Prestwich, call yourself Jihad Al-Shamie. With a name like that, how could he not be on somebody's watchlist? We know what 'Jihad' is, and 'Al-Shamie', translates as "the Syrian." You really couldn't make yourself more conspicuous.

It has been reported that Al-Shamie was on police bail after being arrested on suspicion of rape. His father is a trauma surgeon who was trained in Britain, but is now believed to work abroad. It should be reasonably clear to most people, that what drives anti-Semitism, is Israel's war on innocent Palestinians in Gaza and the occupied territories. The Israeli President, Benjamin Netanyahu, is wanted for war crimes and crimes against humanity by the International Criminal Court (ICC).

Two people died at the Heaton Park synagogue and three were injured. One Jewish worshipper at the Mosque was accidentally shot dead by the police. As Jihad Al-Shamie was shot dead by the police, we will probably never know what his precise motive was for carrying out the killings. Nevertheless, what is reasonably clear is that Al-Shamie went to the synagogue to kill people and to get himself killed. Suicide by cop?

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