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A 30-year history of crime, a 20+ year history of radical Muslim activities, a rap sheet the length of a 747, well-known to MI5 — how did this man get into the country?

I pledge allegiance, to the flag, of the united caliphates of Islam

America and Britain were today accused of 'dropping the ball' after letting career criminal Malik Faisal Akram fly to New York despite UK police already hunting for him and his links to a religious sect banned in Saudi Arabia for attempts to 'purify Islam'.

The terrorist, 44, from Blackburn, England, was shot dead in Texas on Saturday night after a 10-hour siege at the Congregation Beth Israel synagogue in Colleyville where he took a rabbi and three of his congregation hostage with a handgun and claiming to be carrying a suicide bomb.

Today it emerged that Akram became known to British counter-terrorism police after becoming 'completely obsessed' with Islam and displayed extreme and disruptive behavior at Friday prayers during his most recent spell in prison.

He was also a regular at anti-Israel demonstrations and marches for the release of Muslim prisoners at Guantanamo Bay, having first been put behind bars in 1996 as a juvenile delinquent and going in and out of prison for 16 years until he found religion. 

In 2001 he was banned from his local court in England, where he was a regular in the dock, for turning up to abuse staff and ranting about 9/11. He was a regular visitor to Pakistan and reportedly a member of the Tablighi Jamaat group, set up to 'purify' Islam and banned from Saudi after the kingdom described the group as a 'gateway to terrorism'.

The security services were accused of a serious 'intelligence failure' after a British Islamist was able to travel to the US - and MailOnline can reveal that about a fortnight ago, British police were looking for him at the Manchester home he shares with his six children.  

I have questions. Who paid for this unemployed terrorist to “regularly” visit Pakistan? Who paid for his flight to JFK, and got him to Texas? For that matter, who bought him a gun?

The FBI and the White House are still denying that this Muslim was a terrorist, and insist that his motive in attacking a synagogue “remains unclear”. On the other hand they have no problem detecting terrorist groups of concerned school parents, and have in fact formed a task force to investigate and prosecute them.

The Number One threat to our nation, our military and intelligence services have assured us, is global warming. Then come white supremacists, followed by their cousins, critics of school boards. “ANTIFA’s just a bunch of white kids, concerned about the welfare of their little brown brothers”, FBI spokesman Dan Maxwell told FWIW, “and Muslims, by definition, can’t be terrorists — it’s the Religion of Peace — so we don’t follow them at all. Feel better?”

UPDATE: It occurs to me to point out that this terrorist came in through JFK, where we at least pretend to screen arriving travelers. We’re making no such effort down on our wide-open southern border.