Alleged UK Synagogue Attacker Named ‘Jihad’ Was Out on Bail for Rape When He Targeted Jews

There are plenty of times, in the aftermath of a terror attack, when we say “we could never have seen it coming” or “there’s nothing that could have been done to prevent it.”

The U.K. Yom Kippur synagogue attack on Thursday was not one of those times.

According to the U.K. newspaper The Guardian, Jihad al-Shamie, the terrorist in the Manchester attack that killed two, was free on bail on a rape charge after an alleged sexual attack earlier this year and had other criminal convictions.

Not only that, another U.K. newspaper, The Telegraph, reported that his father, a surgeon named Faraj al-Shamie, had used a spate of social media posts to praise the terrorist group Hamas’ Oct. 7 attacks in Israel that killed about

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