Colleyville Synagogue Attack
On January 15, 2022, a gunman entered Congregation Beth Israel in Colleyville, Texas, during services, taking three congregants and a rabbi as hostages. The standoff ended more than ten hours later with all hostages released, unharmed, and the alleged perpetrator, identified as 44-year-old British national Malik Faisal Akram, fatally shot by an FBI SWAT team. Akram allegedly demanded the release of Aafia Siddiqui, who is serving an 86-year prison sentence for assault and attempted murder of U.S. nationals in Afghanistan at the Federal Medical Center in Carswell in Fort Worth, Texas, roughly 20 miles from the synagogue.
Other terms tagged with Islamist
Hate Group
An organization whose goals and activities are primarily or substantially based on a shared antipathy towards people of one or more other different races, religions, ethnicities/nationalities/national origins, genders, and/or sexual identities. The mere presence of bigoted members... Read more
Aafia Siddiqui
Siddiqui is a Pakistani woman who studied neuroscience at Brandeis and MIT in the 1990s and returned to Pakistan in 2003. She allegedly worked as a courier and financier for Al Qaeda. She was taken into custody... Read more
Baqiya wa Tatamadad
"Baqiya wa Tatamadad" is an Arabic phrase meaning "remaining and expanding," which became the slogan of the Islamic State after the collapse of the territorial caliphate. ISIS supporters will often add the phrase as a hashtag or... Read more