{"id":91341,"date":"2016-03-25T10:23:26","date_gmt":"2016-03-25T18:23:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=91341"},"modified":"2016-03-25T12:06:32","modified_gmt":"2016-03-25T20:06:32","slug":"for-party-french-jew-goes-to-synagogue-dressed-as-jihadist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=91341","title":{"rendered":"For Purim, French Jew goes to synagogue dressed as jihadist"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><A HREF=\"https:\/\/in.news.yahoo.com\/party-french-jew-goes-synagogue-170219033.html\">AFP<\/a>: A 40-year-old Jewish man tempted fate by walking into a Paris synagogue dressed as a jihadist, carrying a fake rifle and shouting &#8220;Allahu Akbar&#8221;, a police source said Friday.<\/p>\n<p>For the soldiers guarding the Habad Loubavitch synagogue in Vincennes in southeastern Paris it came as &#8220;a surprise&#8221;, was the deadpan verdict of the police source.<\/p>\n<p>The incident happened on Thursday evening when members of the synagogue were celebrating the festival of Purim, during which followers often dress up in costumes and give each other presents.<\/p>\n<p>The source said the man arrived wearing long North African robes, carrying a fake Kalashnikov and crying &#8220;Allahu akbar&#8221;, Arabic for &#8220;God is greatest&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It created a certain emotion among the soldiers,&#8221; the source said.<\/p>\n<p>The initial shock passed quickly when members of the synagogue realised they knew the man, and that it was only a joke.<\/p>\n<p>He was nonetheless ordered to present himself at his local police station on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>Soldiers have been posted outside many Jewish buildings and other sensitive locations around France in the wake of deadly jihadist attacks last year.<\/p>\n<p>Purim celebrates a story from Hebrew scripture in which the Jews of the Persian empire were rescued from annihilation. Every year, Jews celebrate by giving each other presents and wearing costumes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AFP: A 40-year-old Jewish man tempted fate by walking into a Paris synagogue dressed as a jihadist, carrying a fake rifle and shouting &#8220;Allahu Akbar&#8221;, a police source said Friday. For the soldiers guarding the Habad Loubavitch synagogue in Vincennes &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=91341\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-91341","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-jews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91341","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=91341"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91341\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":91358,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91341\/revisions\/91358"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=91341"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=91341"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=91341"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}