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Somali Muslim Immigrant Carried Out Synagogue Car Jihad in LA

We’ve seen the video and heard the name, but now we have a few more details about the Car Jihad attacker who targeted Jews outside a synagogue in Los Angeles.

The attempted car ramming of two men outside a Los Angeles synagogue Friday — allegedly by a Somali immigrant — is being treated as a potential hate crime as federal officials work to establish a motive in the attack.

Mohamed Mohamed Abdi, 32, was arrested outside Congregation Bais Yehuda after the incident, which took place around 9 p.m. on Friday, the Los Angeles Police Department said Monday.

Two men reported they saw a vehicle being driven by a man, identified as Abdi, who yelled out anti-Semitic expletives “referencing their Jewish heritage” before running a red light, making a U-Turn and accelerating towards them “really, really fast.”

Read the full story from Front Page Mag


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