Outrage over Boulder terror suspect Mohamed Sabry Soliman being initially described as 'white male'
Boulder terror attack suspect Mohamed Sabry Soliman was initially called a 'white male' before he was identified as an illegal immigrant from Egypt.
Before the suspect of the antisemitic attack in Boulder, Colorado was identified as Mohamed Sabry, an Egyptian living in the country illegally, the suspect was described as a 'white male' by several news media outlets, triggering major social media outrage.
Sabry used a makeshift flamethrower and hurled an incendiary device into a crowd in a targeted terror attack as he yelled 'Free Palestine'. The victims whose injury ranges from minor to serious are mostly old people between the ages of 67 to 88. The eldest victim is an 88-year-old holocaust refugee.
The crowd was part of a volunteer group called Run for Their Lives which organizes events to call for the immediate release of Israeli hostages from Gaza.
Several people were injured in the attack while a video from the scene showed the attacker shirtless holding two bottles of what appeared to be Molotov cocktails. It was based on this video that he was described as a 'white male' before it was revealed that he was an illegal immigrant.
Mohamed Sabry Soliman
's original visa permit was till 2023
According to reports, 45-year-old Aoliman entered the country through Los Angeles International Airport on August 27, 2022 with a non-immigrant visa and was permitted to stay till February 26, 2023.
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He filed a claim and was cleared for work authorization in March 2023 till March 2025 -- making Soliman an illegal immigrant now as he overstayed his visa for two months.
Records revealed that he was denied a visa in 2005 and it is not yet known whether he made more attempts to get visa between 2005 and 2022.
"The whitewashing's in full swing. MSNBC's reporting Mohamed Sabry Soliman as an Egyptian national, but they're playing dumb, claiming it's 'not clear immediately' when he arrived, how he got here, or if he's legal—after they screwed up earlier calling him a White male," one wrote on X reacting to the suspect being initially described as a 'while male'.
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