WEST BLOOMFIELD, Mich. (AP) — A man with a rifle who crashed into a large Michigan synagogue in what federal officials are saying was an attack had lost four family members in an Israeli airstrike in his native Lebanon last week, an official said Friday.
Ayman Mohamad Ghazali, 41, a naturalized U.S. citizen born in Lebanon, was killed by security after ramming into Temple Israel in West Bloomfield Township near Detroit and driving down a hallway in a vehicle that then caught fire, according to authorities.
The FBI, which is leading the investigation, described the attack on one of the nation’s largest Reform synagogues as an act of violence targeting the Jewish community.
The synagogue’s staff, teachers and 140 children at its early childhood center were not injured, according to Oakland County Sheriff Mike Bouchard.
When this becomes more common, and I’m certain it will, it’ll be interesting to see how many Americans kinda just ignore that it was us and our allies who radicalized these people.
And displaced them from their homes. Don’t forget the upcoming refugee crisis.
An important note, to be sure. In Afghanistan we displaced tens of millions of people, and all we heard from our government and most Americans was: “Welp, they must just hate us for our freedom.”
