Todd Bensman, a senior national security fellow at the Center for Immigration Studies, said the media ignored the first known terrorist attack by a “border-crossing Muslim migrant” on an American victim last year in an effort to not influence the November 5 general election.
On the morning of October 26, 2024, Sidi Mohammad Abdallahi, a 22-year-old Mauritanian national, shot multiple rounds while screaming the Islamist terrorist war cry “Allahu Akbar” at a 39-year-old Jewish man who was walking to service at KINS of West Rogers Park synagogue in Chicago.
Abdallahi (pictured above) soon after engaged in a shootout with Chicago police and paramedics before being taken into custody and booked into the Cook County Jail.
However, on November 30, Abdallahi ended his own life by hanging himself inside the jail.
Abdallahi, Bensman said, illegally crossed into the U.S. through Mexico in 2023 before making his way to Chicago – a declared sanctuary city.
“Abdallahi crossed from Mexico into San Diego in March of 2023 and made his way up to Chicago. Tens of thousands of illegal immigrants have gone to Chicago. It’s a sanctuary jurisdiction. They’re given all kinds of free stuff out there…but Abdallahi bit the hand that fed him,” Bensman explained on Thursday’s edition of The Michael Patrick Leahy Show.
Bensman, who recently traveled to Chicago to interview the Jewish man who Abdallahi targeted, said that while there was local coverage of the crime, the incident did not receive national media attention and was not covered as a terror attack by a Muslim migrant.
“There was almost no media coverage. They did perfunctory coverage of the shooting but nobody was calling him a Muslim and nobody was calling the victim Jewish,” Bensman said.
Bensman said he believes the lack of coverage of the attack was due to its timing being approximately one week before the November 5 general election.
“It happened about one week before the national presidential election. Why hand this, a pretty gift with a bow on top, to the Republicans a week before the election? That’s what I’m thinking,” Bensman said.
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