The Texas synagogue hostage situation is just the latest example of a long-standing obsession among global jihadist groups with freeing convicted Pakistani terrorist Aafia Siddiqui — a goal shared by the U.S.-based Council on American-Islamic Relations.

British citizen Malik Faisal Akram took members of the Congregation Beth Israel synagogue hostage during their livestreamed Saturday services, capturing the rabbi and three others. After an 11-hour standoff between Akram, the police, and the FBI, the hostages escaped, and Akram was killed by law enforcement.