*. It seems that only certain politically inconvenient acts can be avoided by being cautious in assigning motive. NRPLUS MEMBERS ARTICLE W atching the Congregation Beth Israel hostage situation unfold this weekend, one might have been under the impression that a 44-year-old British Islamist named Malik Faisal Akram had traveled 5,000 miles and then merely wandered into a temple in a Dallas suburb by happenstance, before taking four hostages and demanding the release of a notorious terrorist. Akram — or as the Telegraph described him , a man “with an English accent” — allegedly demanded the release of Aafia Siddiqui,...