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The perpetrator’s distinctive mustache in his mugshot makes it clear that he is an admirer of Adolf Hitler, as if that weren’t already clear when he painted swastikas on the wall of a synagogue and on the grounds of a Jewish high school in Chicago. The man who did this, however, is not a white supremacist neo-Nazi out of establishment media central casting; instead, he is a Muslim named Shahid Hussain. Hussain’s attack on the synagogue follows closely after another Muslim, Malik Faisal Akram, took hostages in a Colleyville, Texas synagogue, demanding the release of convicted jihad terrorist Aafia Siddiqui. Is this the future for synagogues in this country?
Cook County Associated Judge Barbara Dawkins on Tuesday set Hussain’s bail at $250,000 and called his actions “a textbook case of a hate crime.” Hussain, who has previous convictions for burglary and driving under the influence, is accused of painting yellow swastikas on the wall of the F.R.E.E. Synagogue in Chicago, as well as on a shipping container used by the Hanna Sacks Bais Yaakov High School, which is down the street from the synagogue.
According to Fox32 Chicago, “Hussain is also accused of shattering a glass door and cracking another at a synagogue several blocks away, in the 2800 block of West North Shore, police said. He also allegedly kicked in a side window at a synagogue in the 3600 block of West Devon, where two teens in a dormitory saw Hussain wearing a cape and a red hat as he yelled outside about ‘Jews’ while breaking lights, Assistant State’s Attorney James Murphy said.” Hussain was also captured on video pantomiming firing a shotgun and making Nazi salutes. Really, what a charmer.
