The Brew: Muslim ‘Refugee’ Named ‘Jihad’ Butchers Jews at British Synagogue. Authorities Are Stumped About His Motive, by John Zmirak

By John Zmirak, The Stream, October 3, 2025

John Zmirak is a senior editor at The Stream and author or coauthor of 14 books, including The Politically Incorrect Guide to Immigration and The Politically Incorrect Guide to Catholicism. His newest book is No Second Amendment, No First.

Sometimes reality is at once so horrifying and so … on the nose and heavy-handed, that you wonder if God is winking at us. Yesterday saw a sickening terror attack in Britain that sums up what’s wrecking that country in a manner that beggars comment.

Yesterday, on the high Jewish holiday of Yom Kippur, a Syrian Muslim colonist — sorry, “British citizen of Syrian descent” — contributed to British society in the way that only Muslims can. He committed a jihad attack. The target was a synagogue thronged with worshipers, who tragically thought they lived in a land with religious freedom for all. The BBC reports:

Two men from the Jewish community have died and three other people remain in hospital with serious injuries, police say, after a car and knife attack in Manchester. …