It's Tuesday, January 18, 2022. I'm Albert Moller and this is the briefing, a daily analysis of news and events from a Christian worldview.

Major news came out of Colleville, Texas on Saturday

and it continues to spill out as revelations and details come

concerning the hostage taking event that took place in a Jewish

synagogue in that city on Saturday extending as a news story well into Sunday and beyond.

We're talking about a global impact news story here,

but it also comes with some really significant

worldview implications, including theological implications.

We're going to have to look very closely at what actually took place in Fort Worth and how it's connected to a larger global or international agenda.

So what we do know is that by Sunday the FBI had identified the man who had taken the hostages in

the synagogue and held them for 11 terror filled hours before eventually the FBI intervened saving the hostages and eventually the hostage

taker was killed.

Here's where things get really interesting in terms of his identity.

On Sunday the FBI identified the hostage taker as Malie Feizal-A-Kram, a 44-year-old British citizen.

Now, one of the things we have to recognize here is that Britain, like so many European nations, during

the period between the end of the Second World War and, say, today has seen an increasing

number of people moving in as immigrants,

and this means not only as refugees,

but as legal immigrants from much of North Africa

and the Arabian Peninsula, much of the near-east moving into cities such as London.

But massive immigrant Islamic communities now live in cities such as Paris, Brussels. As you look at so many of these cities you recognize

that what has not happened is what Americans would call assimilation. The

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