Antisemitic incidents fall into two categories: the ones people want to discuss for political reasons and the ones they don’t want to discuss for political reasons. File this one under another one of those the media would rather not discuss for political reasons. The setting is Dearborn, MI, where going on half the city is Arab.
And, much as in Europe and the Middle East, the rest naturally follows.
A Dearborn man has been charged with two counts of ethnic intimidation in what officials said was an antisemitic attack at a historic synagogue and preschool for Jewish students in Bloomfield Township.
Hassan Yehia Chokr, 35, was arrested by police after antisemitic and racist threats were made Friday against children, adults and security personnel outside Temple Beth El, Oakland County Prosecutor Karen McDonald said.
“He was hostile and verbally abusive, shouting profanity about ‘F Israel’ and ‘F the Jews’ — and threatening people, yelling at them that if they support Israel, they will pay or he will get them,” Rabbi Mark Miller, Temple Beth El’s senior rabbi, told the Detroit Free Press.
Chokr was driving in a white van screaming expletives and derogatory remarks against Jewish people, according to the group StopAntisemitism, based in New York City. The group that combats antisemitism had posted a tweet and photo of the incident that was retweeted hundreds of times. On Sunday, the group said the suspect had visited another synagogue and noted he was making violent threats on his Instagram page.
A review of what Jewish leaders said was the suspect’s Instagram account shows that he has made violent and explicit remarks about committing sexual assaults and attacks against Jewish people.
One man spewing hate is not so extraordinary, but what really got people’s attention was the police response and what it suggested about the local state of governance.
Some Jewish advocates have raised concerns that Bloomfield Township police officers who responded to the incident Friday did not take him into custody and seemed to act in a friendly demeanor toward Chokr.
Agreeing not to return to the synagogue that day, he then says, “I’m headed to another synagogue.”
At the end of the traffic stop, Chokr is told he is free to go as an officer gives him a fist bump and he is told, “Do us a favor and don’t go back.”
The fist-bump and seemingly genial exchange ignited concerns from local Jews and national antisemitism watchdogs concerned that officers had not responded adequately.
Asked about the behavior of the officers at the scene shown on the video, Lt. Jason Murphy of the Bloomfield Township police told the Free Press: “There are some concerns about that.”
There ought to be. West Bloomfield is the same place that this happened.
A Bloomfield church is canceling an anti-Muslim event scheduled for Wednesday’s 9/11 anniversary after facing condemnation from Michigan representatives and organizations.
Bloomfield Hills Baptist Church announced in a one-sentence email that it will cancel the two-day “9/11 forgotten? Is Michigan surrendering to Islam?” event that was originally scheduled for Wednesday and Thursday.
Need we even ask?
Chokr was already in trouble and yet the cops were exchanging fist bumps.
Chokr was already out on a personal bond of a charge of assaulting a Detroit Police Officer in July 2020. He was due for a trial next year.
Michigan isn’t surrendering, it has surrendered.
cedar9 says
The stench of islam is fouling Americas heart and lungs with their typical islamic treachery. Ignorant and stupid Americans continue to placate this filth. The time will come on Americas main street where we take back our nation from this sewage.
Rilla says
They hated America before they came here. Now here, they still do.
Beez says
Well, that was what Hussein Soetoro needed them for. Hundreds of thousands more on their way now.
Lightbringer says
Or our descendants will be lost, as are the descendants of most of the Christians and Jews in the vast swath that we now think of as dar al Islam.
Angel Jacob says
We the people should find ways to protect ourselves.
The government and the justice system has been compromised.
Steve B. says
Absolutely, if the police fail to protect the public the public must protect themselves, some of those Jews should have dragged the Arab out of his truck and beaten the crap out of him, his friends would think twice about repeating his crime.
Mackereel says
Probably the only message he and his likes would understand.
The Gentle Grizzly says
When the problem was broken shop windows and other forms of harassment in 1890s NYC, Jewish men, patrolling in groups of two or more, generally “took care of business”. This is because the typical Irish Catholic cops would do nothing.
New century, new bad people, same cop attitude.
Rilla says
I suppose that some police officers may also be of the same faith and/or hold the same sympathies. Who is the district attorney? another lefty, like in many major cities in the US.
Spurwing Plover says
Who was the Fool who called Islam the Religion of Peace?
Beez says
Dubya, right after 9-11. With CAIR standing next to him, as if ….
Amanda Hugginkiss says
We need to follow Poland’s lead and stop letting these opportunstic squatters into our country. They have no good intentions. They only want to cause trouble.
The Gentle Grizzly says
Repeal of the Hart-Celler Act would go a long way to solving a lot of problems.
Guy Jones says
Sadly, the vile Dhimmi-crats’ gleeful and unabashed welcoming of Jew-haters and Jew-hate into its part tent have set the tone for much of the country. Feckless and morally corrupt dhimmitude now rule the day. Belligerent behavior, threats and violence by Muslim supremacist thugs and allied Leftist Jew-haters is not deemed worthy of a substantive and robust law enforcement response, on either the local or federal levels.
The police officer in question was likely more concerned about rocking the boat and being labeled an alleged “Islamophobe,” than in dutifully investigating a Muslim supremacist/terrorist.
Susan Pinkard says
We must never forget that Muslims tell you what they are going to do and they mean it. Remember the MB memorandum “the Project” for ‘civilization jihad’. The quieter they appear, the more their strategy is at work… taqiyya and patience.
Beez says
Except when they don’t tell you what they’re going to do and just do it it anyway – like burning down a medieval cathedral in the capitol city of a major European country.
Una Salus says
European style balkanization
Stephen Triesch says
“Bloomfield Hills Baptist Church announced in a one-sentence email that it will cancel the two-day “9/11 forgotten? Is Michigan surrendering to Islam?” event that was originally scheduled for Wednesday and Thursday.”
Yet it is perfectly acceptable to express fears about “Christian nationalism” as a threat to civil liberties or as an attempt to foist a Christion “theocracy” onto the country. In the aftermath of the Dodd decision, there was an opinion piece in my local paper (The Seattle Times) asking the question, “Does the Catholic Church have too much influence over the abortion issue in Washington State?” Substitute either of the other major monotheistic religions into that headline and there would have been an uproar.
Lightbringer says
The Catholic Church is the most organized and outspoken faith group in its opposition to infanticide, but in this issue it speaks for all pious Jews and Protestants. Any Jew or Christian of any type who supports this evil practice is an apostate.
Stephen Triesch says
“Chokr is told he is free to go as an officer gives him a fist bump”
This is one reason why I have no confidence in hate crime statistics. If the religions were reversed in this case, they probably would have charged him with three or four hate crimes.
Algorithmic Analyst says
Crime statistics are often manipulated for political reasons.
Beez says
This is the reason we will see fewer churches, synagogues, and people who attend them. Home churches will be the future. IF Christians have a future in this country.