Daniel Greenfield, a Shillman Journalism Fellow at the Freedom Center, is an investigative journalist and writer focusing on the radical Left and Islamic terrorism.
As far back as 2013, Pakistani Muslim terrorists had plotted to take “foreign Jews” hostage to trade for ‘Lady Al Qaeda’. In 2022, a Pakistani Muslim terrorist actually went out and did it.
The hostage crisis at Congregation Beth Israel, a Reform Temple in Texas, ended with Faisal Akram of Blackburn, another post-industrial English town where Muslims make up a third of the population and Pakistanis account for over 10 percent, dead, and his Jewish hostages set free.
Back home, the Blackburn Muslim Community page announced that “Faisal Akram has sadly departed from this temporary world” and prayed that Allah “bless him with the highest ranks of Paradise”.
The BMC page had previously promoted a “charity” event to raise money for “Palestinians” by the Human Relief Foundation, which had been banned by Israel over its ties to Hamas.
The town has produced no shortage of Jihadists, including the youngest terrorist in the UK, as well as a number of Jihadis who traveled to join ISIS, an associate of shoe bomber Richard Reid, and a terrorist who played a key role in an Al Qaeda plot that targeted New York and D.C.
Blackburn is one of the most segregated towns in the country and has been described as a “no-go zone”. The area that produced the Temple Terrorist has the highest Muslim population outside of London where some claim that flying the English flag has been effectively outlawed.
The setting couldn’t be any better for the media to whitewash the murderous terrorist with the familiar excuses that he was the victim of failed integration in the United Kingdom. His family, in an even more familiar excuse, is claiming that he “was suffering from mental health issues”.
That, along with the claim by FBI Special Agent in Charge Matt DeSarno that the terrorist, “was singularly focused on one issue, and it was not specifically related to the Jewish community”, is becoming the very familiar narrative for covering up the latest Muslim terror attack.
But antisemitism, like Islamism, was part of the air that Faisal Akram breathed in Blackburn.
Salim Mulla, Blackburn’s former mayor and current Labour councilor, claimed that Israel was behind ISIS and school shootings in America. Last year, four Muslim men from Blackburn took part in a “Palestinian” convoy while shouting, “F*** the Jews… F*** all of them. F*** their mothers, f*** their daughters and show your support for Palestine. Rape their daughters and we have to send a message like that. Please do it for the poor children in Gaza.”
Siddiqui aka Lady Al Qaeda, on whose behalf the Texas synagogue attack took place, was married to the nephew of 9/11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, and had assorted recipes for mass murder in her possession when she was captured. Despite graduating from Brandeis, a formerly Jewish university, she demanded at her trial that jurors undergo DNA tests to prove that they are not Jewish. And the Aafia Foundation posted bizarre antisemitic rants about the “degree of poisonous venum (sic) within the heart of American mainstream jewry”.
The harted of Jews, like the hatred of all non-Muslims, is a crucial motive for Islamic terrorism.
If Blackburn is a miserable place, the tale of the Akram family may reveal why. The official family statement by the terrorist’s brother, Gulbar Akram, claims that “although my brother was suffering from mental health issues we were confident that he would not harm the hostages” and denied that the FBI had rescued the hostages from being killed by his brother. “Don’t believe the bull#### in the media they were released from the fire exit and Not rescued.”
The Blackburn Community message describes the terrorist as having brothers named “Gulbar”, “Malik” and the “Late Gulzameer Akram”.
Two brothers named Gulbar Akram and Gulzameer Akram in Blackburn had been locked up over stolen cars. Another time, a Blackburn resident named Gulbar Akram almost had his nose sliced off. A Gulzameer Akram ran a massive counterfeiting operation from a Blackburn home. A Malik Akram was locked up for harassing girls. Were all of them members of the same clan?
The best way to cover up a terrorist attack is to shift the context. And that’s what they’re doing. But it’s important to dig into the true context to understand the true origins of the Texas attack.
In his book, Among the Mosques, ex-Islamist Ed Husain described Blackburn as “another global hub for the Deobandis and the Tableeghi Jamaat” where the mosques pray for the destruction of the enemies of Islam and texts declare that “there can be no reconciliation between Islam and democracy”.
The Deobandis, who control many of the mosques in Blackburn, originated the Taliban.
Aafia Siddiqui, better known as ‘Lady Al Qaeda’, is a Deobandi, the terrorist on whose behalf Faisal Akram took a synagogue hostage, and a popular cause with Pakistanis. A few years ago the Pakistani Senate had even named the Islamic terrorist, the “Daughter of the Nation”.
Indian Mujahideen co-founder Riyaz Bhatkal had plotted to take Jews hostage a decade ago in order to force ‘Lady Al Qaeda’s release. British Muslim “charities” were a major source of funding to the Jihadist group as they are for many Pakistani Jihadist enterprises.
While much has been made of the advocacy on behalf of Siddiqui by CAIR and other Islamist colonists in America, top Muslim politicians in the UK also vocally demanded her release, including Lord Nazir Ahmed and Lord Altaf Sheikh.
When Husain visited Blackburn, he warned that, “it is clear that a caliphist subculture thrives here, a separate world from the rest of British society.”
Tableeghi Jamaat, whose mosques are known as “breeding grounds” for Jihad, is closely intertwined with Pakistani Islamism and vectored Islamic terrorism. Quite a number have joined Al Qaeda. It is no coincidence that so many Islamic terrorists have come out of Blackburn.
Nor is it a coincidence that the latest Islamic terrorist attack on America originated there.
Faisal Akram traveled to Texas, where ‘Lady Al Qaeda’ sleeps at the Federal Medical Center, Carswell in Fort Worth. He was one of many Muslim pilgrims seeking to extricate her. Just last fall, the Dallas-Forth Worth CAIR and the Pakistani terror regime claimed that Aafia Siddiqui had been assaulted in U.S. custody in the latest effort of many on behalf of ‘Lady Al Qaeda’.
Faisal’s target, a progressive Reform Temple which happened to carry the traditional name of Congregation Beth Israel despite its social justice activist clergyman’s hostility to Israel, was ideally selected to fit Muslim antisemitic obsessions with both Israel and Jews.
The antisemitic rants, the hostage crisis, and the rapid cover-up are all regular features of life for Jews in Europe. Changing demographics are making them a new reality for American Jews.
Any American city or town can become the new Blackburn. That’s the harsh lesson here.
Pakistani antisemitism and obscure Jihadist movements are not local issues, they are global threats. The poison nurtured in a declining British post-industrial town blew up in Texas. We are all interconnected, and that interconnectedness has made the Jihad into a global enterprise. Ideas, tactics, and organizations that once took centuries to colonize the world can travel around it at the speed of the internet and a terror plot can happen at the speed of a jet plane.
We can either police our borders, control our immigration, and build walls around our nations, or we must be resigned to being hunted, stalked, and killed anywhere and at any given moment.
In Blackburn, Muslims anticipate the Texas Jihadist ascending to the “highest ranks of Paradise” where he will enjoy the company of 72 virgins. More Muslims from Blackburn, marinating in the same hatred for America, for Jews, and for anyone unlike them, will follow in his footsteps.
Michael Copeland says
““Indeed, Allah has purchased from the believers their lives and their properties [in exchange] for that they will have Paradise. They fight in the cause of Allah , so they kill and are killed. ….” Koran 9:111
The jihadi accomplished the second part of this bargain, but not the first: presumably he is thus not entitled to the benefit.
gravenimage says
Michael, Islam has never been clear on this. Some Muslims believe that the Jihadist only gets paradise if he murders Infidels; other believe that a sincere intent to murder Infidels is sufficient.
revereridesagain says
“Highest ranks” = 72 mythical renewable virgin hookers, the “blessing” of the bordello paradise. One look at him is enough to know that’s the only way that thug was ever going to get a girl unless one of his friends sold him a daughter. Apparently Faisal never learned effective harassment technique from his brother.
gravenimage says
+1
somehistory says
His “brothers” in satan’s filth, will wish to join him in the fake paradise….it doesn’t exist, nor would it be “paradise” with what allegedly is happening there, unless a person lusts for filthy days and nights of evil rape, and drunkenness. Of course, that is what mozlums such as this, now-dead, creep lust for…filth and evil from their “father” satan the devil.
tim gallagher says
Blackburn has 33% Muslims!!. That place has obviously had it. Any place with that many Muslims, in any western non-Muslim country, is a complete disaster. I suppose, if we keep letting the Muslim enemy invaders in, Blackburn is no different to what many of our cities and towns will end up becoming. What a disaster it is. and such a fate is avoidable if enough of our populations would wake up from their slumber. Hungary and those other Visegrad bloc countries are never going to have to put up with disasters like Blackburn. They are awake to islam and Muslims and they aren’t going to let this horrendous situation happen. IT’s obvious that the enemy Muslim invaders have set up a poisonous country within a country in the Blackburn community where this dead maggot from the hostage taking in the USA is considered to be a hero.
gravenimage says
Grimly true.
tim gallagher says
I believe that any city or town that has 33% Muslims is in huge trouble, gravenimage. When the Muslims numbers are smaller, they’ll pretend that they are willing and able to fit into civilised, non-Muslim countries, but, when their numbers are allowed to multiply to this degree, they’ll show clearly that they are the enemy of the civilised countries’ values and bare their fangs. It is a disaster to let their numbers become so big in any non-Muslim country and it is unbelievably stupid to let it happen. The UK is in big trouble.
gravenimage says
True, Tim.
Here is an article in the Guardian lamenting the lack of mixing between Muslims and native English–but it never once mentions Jihad terror, the elephant in the room:
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/nov/01/segregation-blackburn-whalley-range
Andy says
So let us think about America. Hamtramac, Michigan fell to Muslims. Next perhaps Toledo, OH. This is what the cancer of the world has arrived in the US. Next perhaps Minneapolis. US congress has already been invaded by two women. Let us UNITE. Pround Americans of ALL faiths (sans Islam) must UNITE. Otherwise it is just a matter of time.
tim gallagher says
Thanks for that, gravenimage. It is an interesting article. I’d say the same thing is happening everywhere. Some suburbs in Sydney, Lakemba (often jokingly referred to as Lebkemba, since so many of the early Muslims in Australia seemed to be from Lebanon) and other suburbs around Bankstown, Auburn, etc, would have a similar situation. I’m sure most non-Muslims have cleared out of those suburbs. Other suburbs, including suburbs where I sometimes spend time, do have more mixing among Muslims and non-Muslims and others, but Islam has such a rotten attitude towards non-Muslims that there is never really much genuine friendship I’d say. Definitely people are divided off into their tribes. To my mind, islam just doesn’t belong. I think other groups, say Buddhists and Christians, Hindus, etc, seem to get along OK. As you say, jihad terror from Muslims, and I’d say just the bad attitude of Muslims, the entrenched hatred they have for non-Muslims, makes letting Muslims into non-Muslim countries a hopeless idea. Muslims are always out to impose Islam on all of us and there is nothing of worth that I can find in islam. It is barbaric rubbish and should have become extinct ages ago.
gravenimage says
Andy, it is not just Ilhan Omar and Rashida Tlaib–there is also Muslim Congressman André Carson–and until recently Keith Ellison (also Muslim despite his Western-sounding name).
Toledo, Ohio seems fairly safe–for now, at least. Its Muslim population is not even .5%, under the national average. But I agree that nowhere is safe.
gravenimage says
Agree, Tim–the implication, of course, it that it is Westerners–especially white Westerners–who are racist and “Islamophobic”, but there is no mention of the Muslim hatred and aggression towards Infidels.
tim gallagher says
Yes, gravenimage, it’s always the white man’s fault these days. That’s the orthodoxy with a lot of people these days, even though Islam is full of hatred for non-Muslims and has, and has always had, a rotten attitude towards any people who don’t belong to their barbaric religion. It is ridiculous how the Muslims manage to get away with their scam where they are the supposed victims of people’s undeserved dislike.
James Lincoln says
Blackburn images ( 1963 )
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B9vCzJELOY8
gravenimage says
Thanks, James.
Here are ugly images of Blackburn todayl overrun by Mohammedans:
https://www.google.com/search?q=blackburn+muslims+england&tbm=isch&ved=2ahUKEwj9sIDGkbr1AhXH6FMKHdvpAOUQ2-cCegQIABAA&oq=blackburn+muslims+england&gs_lcp=CgNpbWcQAzoHCCMQ7wMQJzoFCAAQgAQ6BggAEAgQHjoECAAQGDoICAAQCBAHEB5Q6wdYkxdg4htoAHAAeACAAY4BiAGvCZIBAzAuOZgBAKABAaoBC2d3cy13aXotaW1nwAEB&sclient=img&ei=OxbmYb2nKcfRzwLb04OoDg&bih=417&biw=911&rlz=1C1CHBF_enUS861US861
tim gallagher says
That was interesting, James. Looked like a peaceful place back then. Horrible images of the place these days, gravenimage. Muslim diversity (as Robert Spencer often writes, “Are we diverse enough yet?”) is taking the supposed benefits of diversity way too far. Some parts of the UK seem almost too far gone to salvage.
gravenimage says
I wish I could disagree, Tim.
Walter Sieruk says
This the shows how completely delusional those Muslim are because of their religion .As explained in detail in previous posting .Which is that the god of Islam isn’t the God of the Bible in spite ofthe bogus the to the contrary , but a pagan nothing false god .
That their hopes for that , now dead , jihadist, are a false hope . For according to the Bible he is now in hell.
Pray Hard says
If the Jewish community wasn’t part of the issue, why didn’t he take hostages at Walmart?
gravenimage says
Exactly, Pray Hard.
gravenimage says
Texas synagogue jihadi’s UK community hopes Allah will ‘bless him with the highest ranks of Paradise’
………….
So the Blackburn Muslim commity isn’t even pretending anymore that they do not support Jihad terror.
Yesterday their Facebook page was available:
https://www.facebook.com/BlackburnMuslimCommunity/
Now it has this message, and an icon of a padlock:
This content isn’t available at the moment
When this happens, it’s usually because the owner only shared it with a small group of people or changed who can see it, or it’s been deleted.
So are they only “sharing” this with fellow Muslims? Or has Facebook taken down this approval of Jihad terror? (This second is of course unlikely).
Jerry says
“How dreadful are the curses which Mohammedanism lays on its votaries! Besides the fanatical frenzy, which is as dangerous in a man as hydrophobia in a dog, there is this fearful fatalistic apathy. The effects are apparent in many countries, improvident habits, slovenly systems of agriculture, sluggish methods of commerce, and insecurity of property exist wherever the followers of the Prophet rule or live.
A degraded sensualism deprives this life of its grace and refinement, the next of its dignity and sanctity. The fact that in Mohammedan law every woman must belong to some man as his absolute property, either as a child, a wife, or a concubine, must delay the final extinction of slavery until the faith of Islam has ceased to be a great power among men.
Individual Muslims may show splendid qualities, but the influence of the religion paralyses the social development of those who follow it. No stronger retrograde force exists in the world. Far from being moribund, Mohammedanism is a militant and proselytizing faith. It has already spread throughout Central Africa, raising fearless warriors at every step; and were it not that Christianity is sheltered in the strong arms of science, the science against which it had vainly struggled, the civilization of modern Europe might fall, as fell the civilization of ancient Rome.
He also wrote ***Individual Moslems may show splendid qualities. Thousands become the brave and loyal soldiers of the Queen;all know how to die. No stronger retrograde force exists in the world.”
Ref; Winston Churchill The River War: An Historical Account of the Reconquest of the Soudan (1899) original version,The Churchill Centre.
gravenimage says
+1
David Foot says
The problem in which a country like England finds itself, where there is a substantial minority which favours missogyny, terror, religious tyranny according to the law which they bring to force on to us. The minority doesn’t believe in equality and democracy but uses these notions to give us all the contrary to them according to their law.
A community which has come to England not to learn success but to teach us failure.
Carole Brown says
Why do we have to have these evil, murderous people living in our nation?
OLD GUY says
May his paradise turn out to be queer.
Carole Brown says
Why do we have to have these evil, murderous people living in our nation?
John Allan says
Put another way … they hope he DIES, and meets his maker!
Steve says
The imam at the Islamic Center of Greater Toledo regularly posts anti-white and anti-American bigotry (his name is Ahmad Deeb). Today he posted a story to his instagram calling Americans evil and “white supremacist imperialists”. Of course, this simp lives here instead of one of those Islamic countries with Islamic hygiene so he’s a complete hypocrite for choosing to live here. He goes on social media everyday and has since he was hired and blasts America, whites (especially white men), and even his “savior” Joe Biden! Cowards like him have no shame and need to be locked in prison.