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UK Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood Says She's 'Surprised' by Name of Manchester Synagogue Terrorist

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UK Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood is expressing shock that the 35-year-old Syrian who stabbed Jews at a Manchester synagogue on Yom Kippur has an on-the-nose name.

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This, of course, is a lie as we'll demonstrate in a minute.

Jihad Al-Shamie was arrested on Thursday for killing two Jewish worshippers and wounding several others. He was reportedly wearing a suicide belt when he was apprehended.

But social media users pointed out the very real fact that there are several people named Jihad in Mahmood's hometown of Birmingham.

According to Forebears, there are almost 300,000 Muslims with the name Jihad in the world, mostly in Saudi Arabia and Syria.

And Mahmood was raised in Saudi Arabia.

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"This is a brazen lie," Hassan wrote.

Because that's what she does best, it seems.

Despite saying this wasn't a name she was familiar with, Mahmoom went on to say Shamie was given that name at birth.

"It is my understanding that is the name he was born with. It is not a name that was adopted later in life or changed recently," she told Leading Britain's Conversation (LBC). That, of course, makes it worse. "Jihad Al-Shamie" translates to "the struggle of the Syrian," Shamie's country of birth. His parents named him that for a reason.

On Yom Kippur, we learned what that reason was.

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