US Muslim groups have condemned hostage-taking incident at a synagogue in the US state of Texas.
The Council on American-Islamic Relations , the nation’s largest Muslim civil rights and advocacy organisation, denounced the incident on Sunday. "This latest antisemitic attack at a house of worship is an unacceptable act of evil. We stand in solidarity with the Jewish community," CAIR National Deputy Director Edward Ahmed Mitchell said in a statement on Sunday.
Meanwhile, the US Council of Muslim Organizations said it stands in complete solidarity against antisemitism with the Jewish community and "condemns the evil, unjust, and unjustifiable hostage-taking of members of the Congregation Beth Israel synagogue." "This heinous attack on a synagogue, a sacred and inviolable place of worship – and its congregants in the act of prayer – is utterly unacceptable," said Council Secretary-General Oussama Jammal.Four people including a rabbi were held by a gunman who entered the Congregation Beth Israel synagogue in Colleyville during a religious service. After hours of standoff with law enforcement, all hostages were freed and the captor was dead, police said.
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Original fb midstream was taken down. People that were watching it said the person sounded like Pakistani British & with mental issues who at the end took his life.
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