Democrats are now shamelessly attempting to blame the Texas synagogue attack on white supremacists, despite the fact that the attacker, Aafia Siddiqui, was an Islamic terrorist.
Appearing on MSNBC on Saturday afternoon, Michigan’s attorney general, Dana Nessel, said her “biggest concern” was that the attack was a “hate crime” or “domestic terrorism,” pointing to “white supremacy organizations.”
“We have seen an incredible rise in rhetoric that is anti-Semitic being trafficked all around the country,” Nessel said, warning of an “an exponential rise in the formation and the membership of these extremist organizations, many of which are white supremacy organizations, and they traffic in hatred against Jews and other minorities.”
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“If it does turn out that is the motivating factor here, it would hardly be a surprise,” Nessel added.
Freebeacon.com reports: More than an hour before Nessel’s appearance, ABC News reporter Aaron Katersky reported that the hostage-taker was demanding the release of Siddiqui, who is known as “Lady al Qaeda” and is serving an 86-year sentence in a Texas federal prison for trying to kill American soldiers. The effort to secure her freedom through violence is not a surprise—Muslim terrorists associated with ISIS and al Qaeda have been working to free Siddiqui for years, and Muslim groups in the United States such as the Council on American Islamic Relations have long advocated for her release.
Nessel made no mention of the chance that the attack on the Texas synagogue was carried out by a Muslim terrorist, speculating only that it was “domestic terrorism.”
The attacker was a British foreign national, identified on Sunday as Malik Faisal Akram. He was killed during the standoff, and all hostages were rescued.
Nessel was not the only Democrat hesitant to pin the attack on Muslim terrorists. President Joe Biden in a statement late Saturday night after the situation was already resolved said we still needed to learn the “motivations of the hostage-taker.” Biden also pledged to stand against “the rise of extremism in this country,” even though the attacker was not radicalized in the United States.
It is unclear whether Nessel had any Bloody Marys prior to the interview.
