It is good to see that de Blasio is not so hamstrung by his Leftist and Islamic supremacist friends and associates that he would be unable to recognize this threat. But will those friends and associates call him to task for “Islamophobia”? “4 People, Including Americans, Killed In Jerusalem Synagogue Attack,” CBS New York, November 18, 2014:
NEW YORK (CBSNewYork/AP) — Two Palestinian cousins armed with meat cleavers and a gun stormed a Jerusalem synagogue during morning prayers Tuesday, killing four people in the city’s bloodiest attack in years. Police killed the attackers in a shootout.
The attack ratcheted up fears of sustained violence in the city, which is already on edge amid soaring tensions over its most contested holy site.
Police said the dead worshippers were three Americans and a Briton, and that all held dual Israeli citizenship. The attack occurred in Har Nof, an ultra-Orthodox neighborhood that has a large population of English-speaking immigrants.
New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio said he is “horrified and heartbroken” by the attack.
“New York City stands in solidarity with Israel at this difficult time, and we hope and pray for a peaceful and secure future for all of its people,” de Blasio said in a statement.
De Blasio and NYPD Commissioner Bill Bratton said the city has increased its police presence at synagogues and other key locations around New York City.
“The NYPD is following developments in Jerusalem closely and working with the FBI Joint Terrorism Task Force to monitor any further developments,” Bratton said in a statement. “As of now, there is no specific credible threat to New York City.”
“The NYPD is in close contact with its liaison post in Israel,” de Blasio said. “As always, we ask New Yorkers to stay alert and immediately report any suspicious activity.”
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu vowed to “respond harshly,” describing the attack as a “cruel murder of Jews who came to pray and were killed by despicable murderers.”
U.S. State Department spokeswoman Jen Psaki named the three U.S. citizens as Mosheh Twersky, Aryeh Kupinsky and Cary William Levine.
Twersky, the grandson of a renowned rabbi from Boston, Joseph Soloveichik, was the head of Yeshivas Toras Moshe, a religious seminary for English-speaking students….
Champ says
Crazy that one of the most dangerous places to be is a place of worship–courtesy evil islam and company.
AnneM says
Not surprised.
Got to remember this is part of the devil’s war against both Jews and Christians via Islam.
Ha Meshuga says
They dont respect their own places of worship, they aint gonna respect ours…in fact that can be shortened to simply say “they dont respect”…..
Jack says
NYC Muslims fear backlash, demand Federal dollars for security systems; half of which will be sent for knives and ak-47’s.
AnneM says
A “backlash” that could be realized because of the actions of their own?
Jack says
Yes Anne, every time they attack, they claim they are the true victims. It’s sickening.
mortimer says
Western Libtard journalists are religious illiterates who know even less about Islam. They follow the ‘official victims of racism’ narrative. Muslims are ‘innocent’ because Westerners are ‘racist’. But these Libtards have not yet revealed the ‘race’ of Islam.
Michael Copeland says
Increasing the cost of security is part of the bankruptcy jihad.
mortimer says
The growing cost of the supremacist ideology of Islam.
Darren says
Creative isn’t it? These people turn everything even basic human rights into a weapon against us. It reminds me of prisoners in a jail making shanks out of anything and everything they find even items you wouldn’t expect one could make a weapon out of. The same proves true when it comes to muslims engaging in jihad. We in the west view warfare in two dimensions due to a whole host of factors. I’m not saying our well trained soldiers and intel people can’t see it but due to chain of command and those who are politicians usually getting to the top positions they can’t do much. Chain of command is also a weapon.
Darren says
People in intel, law enforcement, and the military need to start trying to imagine any and everything as a weapon used against them and trying to think up counters and defenses against such tactics, or this is going to get a whole lot worse and much more bloody.
mortimer says
Ipso facto DiBlasio is admitting that SOME Muslims believe Islam teaches warfare against the disbelievers.
“Turhibunna” (terrorize them) Koran 8.60
mariam rove says
There is a prominent synagogue on E. 63rd between 5th and Madison and I just passed by it this morning and there was a heavy presence of NYPD. M
Bettina says
Comforting, Mariam, up to a point, isn’t it?
dumbledoresarmy says
If the NYPD has any sense, they’ll think of it as a “stakeout”.
They wouldn’t be “guarding”…they’d be *lying in wait*, ready to take out any nasty sneaking mohammedans who even *thought* of emulating the bloody exploits of the mohammedans in that synagogue in Jerusalem.
Wellington says
The State Department spokeswoman mentioned in this article, Jen Psaki, was the twit who not long ago said that Israel had not taken enough precautions to insure civilian safety during the recent Gaza campaign. Frankly, with people like her, and there are a great many people like her in the State Department and the Obama Administration, these murders in Jerusalem won’t in the least disabuse such people of holding to ideas which are rooted in fantasy rather than reality.
Bettina says
The new problem is the visuals of the Gaza war, propagandized ad nauseam by our leftist media. This provides now the ‘moral’ counter-balance that many jump to, when learning of new muslim atrocities against Israel.
All people choose to remember are the deaths of Gazans, not the perpetual attacks by arabs. How sadly true.
ECAW says
In England we call this following the ball ie moving the fielders in a game of cricket to where the batsman just hit the ball, rather than anticipating where he’s going to hit it or even bowling to him in such a way that his options are restricted.
But if you’re not allowed to study the batsman’s style you’re bound to be chasing him around the field. In other words the next one won’t be a war memorial guard or policemen or rabbis but something else which will come as a surprise and then be guarded in turn.
Darren says
We keep reacting to them, they have the initiative in this war and are winning on multiple fronts, anyone who denies this is either suffering from a massive case of cognitive dissonance or is truly blind.
awake says
A sensible move, but one that likely had quite a bit more to do with Bratton than Warren Wilhelm Jr.
Charli Main says
“Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu vowed to “respond harshly,” describing the attack as a “cruel murder of Jews who came to pray and were killed by despicable murderers.”
The Pallywood movie industry will soon be in full production producing “authentic” videos of Israeli “atrocities” against the poor Pally victims. Bombing baby milk factories, hospitals, nursery schools, mosques and kids playing football with pensioners.
Salah says
“The Pallywood movie industry will soon be in full production producing “authentic” videos of Israeli “atrocities” against the poor Pally victims.”
Check out this Muslim “Brotherwood” production:
http://crossmuslims.blogspot.ca/2014/04/al-jazeera-busted-strong-bias-of-al.html
Bettina says
These long, studied poses are too laughable to be true!
Alex says
I couldn’t help but notice NYPD’s motto stamped on their vehicle: Courtesy, Professionalism, Respect. Gee, that’s going to scare the criminals away for sure… (Where I live, our local police’s motto is: Vigilance, Courage, Pride.)
Darren says
They will just laugh at the stupid infidel reacting to them and think up 10 other strategies and tactics which we won’t counter.
Stanton Cordray says
Mahmoud Abbas, while “condemning” the attacks, did not fail to find a way to blame Israel: “provocations” regarding the Temple Mount and its mosques.
I wonder if the murder of four defenseless people at prayer qualifies as a provocation? Would it justify Israelis for charging into a mosque and doing the same thing?
Presumably it would, by P.A. standards – as long as somebody “condemned” the attack after the victims were well and truly dead.
Darren says
Due to being neutralized by weaponized political correctness they will never do that. The enemy knows we lack the will for this war and exploits it constantly.
dumbledoresarmy says
A thought for the NYPD. And for other police forces in non-Muslim lands around the world.
By all means, step up security around Synagogues (and other prominently-Jewish shopfronts, and in Jewish precincts), and also around churches and any Sikh, Hindu, Buddhist or Taoist religious meeting places in NYC.
Because although Mohammedans love to attack and kill Jews, they are not averse to doing the same thing to other kinds of non-Muslims, as well.
I would not be surprised *at all* if a similar attack takes place against a church somewhere within *the West*, pretty soon; it’s *already* been happening all over the place to churches inside or on the edges of the Desolation of Mohammed aka “dar al Islam”. And if not against a church, against a Buddhist or HIndu temple.
But as for mosques…don’t bother. They don’t need protection. Mafia don hideouts didn’t need protection, crack houses don’t need protection, thuggee temples didn’t need protection, nazi Bund clubhouses didn’t need protection.
It’s all the rest of us – non-Muslims – who need to be protected from *them*. Protected from the mosques and those who gather there and get all fired up, high on hate, high on their feelings of lust and greed, and then are wont to swarm or sneak out amongst us to rob and kill and rape and *destroy*.
As far as mosques are concerned, my advice to the NYPD would be to step up *surveillance* of every single known mosque in NYC. Not even a *mouse* should be able to get in and out without being tracked. And if you see or hear anything the *least* bit sus…do as your brother Infidel Cops in Kenya have done, and …RAID THE MOSQUES and surprise-search them.
Frankly, what should be happening in the wake of this heinous Muslim assault on unarmed worshippers in a synagogue, is surprise raids on and searches of every known mosque in the USA and the UK.
A mosque is the functional equivalent of the clubhouse and hangout of an outlaw bikie gang, or the local base/ safe-house of an organised crime syndicate.
I think it’s about time that Infidel law enforcement and intelligence agencies began to treat mosques as the sinister establishments that they are.
Ryan Muhammad says
Wow! Police in America actually make a move to protect the TARGETS of jihad instead of the BREEDING GROUND of the terrorists! When I clicked on the article I was bracing for the usual “stepped up police presence at mosques out of fear of backlash”. But when I saw that the response was actually to protect the victims of jihad, wow!
This is what needs to happen. When Muslims attack Christians, which is all the time, step up police protection of churches. When Muslims attack Jews, which is all the time, step up police protection of synagogues. The same with Hindu and Buddhist temples, but do NOT provide any “stepped up protection” of mosques! When Muslims cry “we’re the real victims here, we need protection”, the response should be “we are protecting the buildings of the co-religionists targeted by Muslims.” Sunni Muslims will then cry, “Shi’a attack our brethren and we are scared”, and the Shi’ites will do the same. the response should then be “I though all Muslims were one Ummah of 1.something billion Muslims? You guys need to work that out. Christians are being murdered by Muslims, so we protect the churches. And Muslims are murdering synagogues, so we protect the synagogues. When Christians start blowing up mosques overseas, then you can call us to protect your mosques here.”
Muslims and leftists would foam at the mouth, but that tough approach is what is needed to put them in their place. Time to end this nonsense of protecting the co-religionists of terrorists and of granting them more and more concessions, which only emboldens them that their allah is giving them victory. Put supremacists in their place.
Using resources to protect mosques instead of the victims is like protecting KKK centers each time they lynch a black person. The blacks needed protection from the KKK, not the other way around. Using resources to protect mosques instead of victims is like protecting Nazi centers each time the murder more Jews and other victims, instead of protecting the victims.
ENOUGH IS ENOUGH!
Glad that the synagogues are getting police protection, and that I didn’t read about any stupid “stepped up measure” to protect mosques.
Don’t get me wrong though, I would like to see police presence at mosques, to shut them down!!!
Bettina says
You rang many bells here, Ryan 🙂
Say, why use that last name? Sounds atrocious until one reads you…
Bettina says
Here’s an urban legend from Casablanca — I never looked up its veracity, but …
As was common for many decades, arabs were in the habit of tapping on passing Jewish men’s heads when walking.
One day this Moroccan Jew got fed up and, to prevent more tapping, he stuck pins on the inside of his yarmulke with the points facing up.
Word in the neighborhood, and this man was allowed to walk in peace.
My mother told me so.
Today of course, mohamedans would yank the yarmulke right off his head right away, discover the pins, and change the patting into beheading.
ECAW says
This is an interesting article to be sure. It paints a very benign picture of the second class status of Jews in Islamic history, contrasting sharply with what we hear from Bat Ye’or, Mark Durie etc. I am not in a position to say which is right but I note a couple of things. Firstly, Although the author is a professor of Jewish history he provides no references to any scholarlay works upon which, presumably, his claims ar based. Secondly, and this is a common cause of irritation to me, why does he capitalise “prophet” when referring to Mohammed? I would not dream of according him that respect and cannot understand why any non-Muslim would. Is it not tantamount to accepting Mohammed’s claims about himself?
Here are another couple of articles from JC.com:
http://www.thejc.com/arts/books/117639/across-jewish-muslim-christian-religious-divide
It is about a book (admittedly critically reviewed) written by a Jew, a Muslim and a Christian about their differences but in which apparently there was “no mention made of Jihad or the many acts of violence committed in recent times by so many Muslims in the name of religion”.
http://www.thejc.com/news/uk-news/117322/former-cst-boss-will-help-muslim-group-battle-islamophobia-0
This is about the ex head of the organisation which monitored antisemitic attacks joining TellMama the flagrantly deceitful Muslim equivalent. Peter Tatchell the gay rights campaigner has done the same.
What is going on here? One answer is given by Mark Durie who tells us that dhimmi groups were not only oppressed but expected to deny that oppression and speak well of the oppressor. Who knows? I would be interested to others with greater knowledge on the subject make of it.