The Terrifying Silence on the Synagogue Attack

The only thing more frightening than a violent act of antisemitism, is a violent act of antisemitism that the world is happy to ignore. Last Saturday, on Shabbat (the Jewish day of rest), a Muslim extremist from Blackburn named Malik Faisal Akram entered the Congregation Beth Israel Synagogue in the town of Colleyville, Texas and took four Jewish people (one a Rabbi) hostage for 11 hours while demanding the release of a terrorist -- Aafia Siddiqui -- from a Texas prison.