The Book Ilhan Omar Doesn’t Want You to Read
A review of 'American Ingrate: Ilhan Omar and the Progressive-Islamist Takeover of the Democratic Party.'
Daniel Greenfield, a Shillman Journalism Fellow at the Freedom Center, is an investigative journalist and writer focusing on the radical Left and Islamic terrorism.
"A right-wing extremist just dedicated a racist, Islamophobic book to bashing Ilhan," the Ilhan for Congress fundraising email read. And then asked donors for $5 or $100 because the book might "turn more people away from bold progressive ideas, and incite violence against her."
The book is American Ingrate: Ilhan Omar and the Progressive-Islamist Takeover of the Democratic Party. And in it, Benjamin Weingarten, has written a damning indictment of Omar and her allies.
The fundraising letter’s claims that it incites violence and that it’s racist are false. But American Ingrate might very well make people question some of those “bold progressive ideas”, because Weingarten’s scope goes beyond a grifter from Minnesota trailing accusations of infidelity and even incest through her twisted political career, while romancing her fundraising strategist. They go to the very question of how someone like Omar, with all her issues, personal and ideological, was able to rise so high.
On a personal level, it’s understandable why Omar wouldn’t want anyone reading, American Ingrate. Her own memoir, This Is What America Looks Like is due out in the spring. And after a series of stories digging into her past, her alleged marriage to her brother, her infidelity to her ex-husband, and her campaign finance issues, not to mention the torrent of anti-Semitism coming from her on Twitter, the Islamist politician would like to change the subject and get back to enjoying some positive publicity.
But American Ingrate is more about the political environment that made Omar possible.
Omar’s upcoming memoir is mistitled. Her arrogance, disdain for America, bigotry, and embrace of conspiracy theories is not what America looks like. But it is what the Democrat Party looks like.
American Ingrate is not just an examination of Omar’s scandals, but of the Democrat scandal.
Beginning with her privileged background in Somalia, Weingarten explores Omar’s personality through the lens of her ideology. He charts the mix of Islamism and Marxism of her background, and how it prepared her for her role in the post-9/11 Democrat Party. He describes her rise as “Obamaesque” and, indeed, the parallels are obvious. Both Omar and Obama share deliberately obscured backgrounds, familial hatred for America and embrace of radical politics. And these two elements, the lack of background information and a background built on hatred for this country, are intertwined. Omar and Obama both had to disguise their anti-American roots to realize their American political ambitions.
Obama and Omar both redefined their anti-American identities as quintessentially American. Omar’s upcoming memoir is her own attempt at repeating the trick Obama had pulled with Dreams From My Father. As American Ingrate notes, Omar is ambitious and aggressive in seeking higher office. It is unlikely that she intends to climb no higher than the House of Representatives in Washington D.C.
Her aggressive fundraising in response to American Ingrate and her biography highlight a politician, who faces few real political challenges at home, but is building a machine intended to elevate her further.
Omar, as Weingarten points out, is both a symbol of the transformation of the Democrat Party and of the alliance between Islamists and the radical Left, and one of the engines driving the transformation.
“There has never been a U.S. representative so perfectly positioned at the intersection of these two ideologies aimed at undermining our country, who has garnered such widespread support, not only from her Squad but from the Congressional Progressive Caucus (CPC) and the Democratic Party itself."
Anti-Semitism is, in some ways, incidental to this alliance. And yet in other ways it’s the litmus test. It’s often been said that Jews are the canary in the coal mine. Anti-Semitism signals the death of a civil society and the rise of a totalitarian order. The perpetrators often use anti-Semitism because it’s easy. The Jews are a wedge issue for an escalating series of attacks on a society’s norms of decency.
Omar’s anti-Semitism isn’t just about Jews. Like most Islamists, she violates the norms of bigotry both to show that the Jews are defenseless, in much the same way that the Nazis did in Germany, but also, because successfully violating them sets the stage for further violations. Similarly, her attacks on America, her dismissal of 9/11, are an escalated version of the same pattern of ideological warfare.
Once the Democrats began defending her, they became complicit in her future offenses. And then it was too late for them to stop. Every time she escalated her hateful rhetoric, they had to go on covering for her. It was either or admit that they had been wrong to defend a politician who really is a bigot.
Islamic anti-Semitism and leftist anti-Semitism, Weingarten notes, represent a bridge between Islam and the Left. The fusion of the two, which he traces back to the KGB and Edward Said’s Orientalism, transformed racism into anti-racism, and imperialism into anti-imperialism, reversing western morality.
Despite her own privileged background, Omar’s status as a minority woman allowed her to legitimize anti-Semitism by reducing it to power relationships. The Left insists that real racism can only be directed by those who have more power at those who have less power. But every racist movement insists that the people it hates have too much power. Even if it has to rewrite reality and truth to make that claim.
The Left’s insistence that real racism can only be a function of power relationships legitimizes racism. Its insistence on determining which races really have power and which don’t is a classic racist strategy.
Omar is one of the most recognizable figures in the country. Yet she insists that she’s the victim. In her fundraising email, her campaign claims that she risks being "drowned out by the smears and conspiracy theories." But her upcoming memoir is being put out by one of the world’s largest publishing companies. It’s already being promoted by the mainstream media though it’s a long way from being out.
American Ingrate, a critical look at Omar, is unlikely to be reviewed by any major media outlet.
Who then has the real power?
In American Ingrate, Weingarten asks that, “Rep. Omar be held to the same standard of scrutiny as every other politician.” But the function of identity politics is the obliteration of equal standards.
As long as Omar insists that she’s the victim, she can never be held to the same standard.
Victimhood creates multiple tiers, whether through a formal caste system such as intersectionality or the informal one of guilt and rage, and lefties and Islamists both excel at exploiting this system.
That is why Omar reacted to the publication of American Ingrate with false claims of victimhood.
Being a victim means never being held accountable. It also allows Omar to use crybullying tactics in an effort to intimidate and silence journalists like Weingarten, David Steinberg, who did much of the original investigating of Omar, or Scott Johnson and John Hinderaker of PowerLine, and many others.
The Omar campaign’s fundraising email calls American Ingrate an “unprecedented attack.”
And it is. Not because, as Omar falsely claims, it incites violence, but because it exposes the ideological roots of her hatred for America. That’s why Omar doesn’t want you or anyone else to read it.
THE MUSLIMS IN OBAMAVILLE CHICAGO
“Phil had firsthand evidence that Obama was secretly advancing Islamic hegemony in the U.S.,” Haney’s friend Bill Becker, told the California Globe. “He sacrificed his career to expose it.”
A tale of two terror-linked families
Democratic presidential frontrunner Bernie Sanders recently appointed Fairfax County school board member Abrar Omeish as the co-chair of his Virginia campaign. As with another recently elected Virginia politician, state delegate Ibraheem Samirah, Ms. Omeish has been associated with controversial Islamist organizations and hails from a terror-linked jihadist family.
It was not long ago that the political establishment considered such theocratic beliefs beyond the pale. Yet, thanks to a complex public relations strategy, one that appropriates the language of civil rights and victimhood politics, Islamist organizations have succeeded in gradually recasting American Islamists as celebrated humanitarians and social reformers.
On February 4, the Chicago Chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR-Chicago) continued this rebranding project by circulating a newsletter glorifying the achievements of two terror-linked families: the Omeishes and Samirahs. The message encouraged the public to attend CAIR-Chicago's 16th annual banquet, where Ms. Omeish and Del. Samirah appeared on a panel to discuss their experiences as young Muslim politicians.
Ironically, CAIR-Chicago titled its newsletter "Two Families: An American Muslim Saga" and described how the two Virginia politicians overcame the "destroyed reputations" and "Islamophobic smears" of their Hamas-linked fathers — Dr. Sabri Samirah and Dr. Esam Omeish — and made it to public office.
CAIR, a self-styled Muslim civil rights and advocacy group, survived a "saga" of its own in 2008, when it was listed as an unindicted co-conspirator in the nation's largest terrorism finance trial. On appeal, a federal judge ruled that there was "ample evidence" linking CAIR to Hamas, a designated terrorist organization.
CAIR-Chicago's Facebook posts promoting the event claimed that the Omeish and Samirah sagas are "multigenerational stories ... of our community's challenges and victories in the last few years." The Islamist group bragged that, through 12 years of activism and networking, Islamic organizations "have built strong alliances and learned from the work of other minorities."
Abrar Omeish is the daughter of Dr. Esam Omeish, who resigned from his position on a Virginia state immigration commission in 2007, after former Virginia governor Tim Kaine became aware of a 2000 video where Omeish glorified violent jihad, telling Muslims in Washington, D.C. "that the jihad way is the way to liberate your land." In the same speech, Omeish accused Israel of genocide against Palestinians and arguing that the "Israeli agenda" controls Congress.
Dr. Omeish maintained "close ties" to the International Institute of Islamic Thought, which has fundraised for Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad. In addition, a Libyan parliamentary committee included Dr. Omeish on a list of 75 "terrorists" for his affiliation with the Revolutionary Shura Council (RSC), an Islamist opposition group affiliated with al-Qaeda.
In the case of Abrar Omeish, like many other Islamist families, the apple did not fall far from the tree.
While Dr. Omeish formerly headed the Muslim American Society (MAS), his daughter was president of the Muslim Students Association at Yale University. Both organizations are known to be façades for the U.S. Muslim Brotherhood.
In 2014, Ms. Omeish led a campaign to silence Ayaan Hirsi Ali, a Somali-born American feminist who was a victim of female genital mutilation (FGM) in Somalia and now advocates for women's and children's rights.
The second family featured in CAIR-Chicago's "American Muslim Saga," the Samirahs, was represented by Del. Ibraheem Samirah and his father, Dr. Sabri Samirah. While the Virginia lawmaker appeared beside Ms. Omeish on the banquet panel, his father currently resides in Jordan after he was banned from entering the U.S. for ten years.
In its newsletter, CAIR-Chicago explained the elder Samirah's absence: "All it took back then was an undisclosed 'security threat' label by the federal government to smear and banish Dr. Sabri for an entire decade from re-entry back to his adopted homeland."
In fact, Dr. Samirah was a senior leader of a now-defunct Hamas network in the U.S. called the "Palestine Committee" and also was chairman of the Palestine Committee's main propaganda arm, the Islamic Association for Palestine (IAP). The IAP issued Hamas press releases and published the Hamas charter, which called for Israel's destruction and the murder of Jews, and held events that featured senior Hamas leaders as speakers.
In 1994, Dr. Samirah hosted the "Jerusalem Festival" in Chicago, where thousands of Palestinians and Jordanians live. Addressing the audience, Dr. Samirah referred to Chicago as "the Muslim capital of America" and gave tribute to "the martyrs who gave their blood for Palestine."
Even worse, the elder Samirah once led a youth retreat where children were recorded singing Arabic songs praising Hamas founder Ahmed Yasin and glorifying armed struggle against Jews, chanting: "With daggers in our hands we burst forth to strike ... our enemies."
As with the Omeish family, the younger Samirah has carried his father's legacy of religious extremism.
Delegate Samirah inherited his father's penchant for anti-Semitism and was involved with campus activism as a member of Students for Justice in Palestine, a key proponent of the global Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions (BDS) campaign. In an August 3, 2014 Facebook post, the future Virginia state legislator agreed that "funding Israel is like 'Sending money to the KKK.'"
There can be no doubt that Del. Samirah will seek to uphold the political objectives of his father, who remarked in 2014, "We are ready to sacrifice all we have for Palestine. Long live Palestine." A year later, Samirah Jr. lionized his father in a Facebook post, calling him a "role model" and admitting, "I would not have dedicated myself to the Palestinian human rights' [sic] cause without him."
With Islamist politicians holding local and federal office, and many others running in the 2020 elections, Islamist organizations such as CAIR feel confident in their ability to infiltrate the American political system and implement a theocratic agenda. But part of the rise of the Islamist political class includes an acute historical revisionism, one that necessitates turning perpetrators into victims and terrorists into freedom fighters.
CAIR-Chicago's "American Muslim Saga" of two terror-linked families is nothing short of Islamist propaganda, an attempt to normalize extremist behavior and vilify American justice. It is a complete fiction, and one that ignores the anti-Semitism and criminal exploits of its misbegotten protagonists. Such villain-worshiping can only be expected from CAIR, a terrorist-supporting front group that serves as a clearinghouse for hardline Islamist principles.
Hesham Shehab is the Chicago Counter-Islamist Grid research fellow at the Middle East Forum.
“Phil had firsthand evidence that Obama was secretly advancing Islamic hegemony in the U.S.,” Haney’s friend Bill Becker, told the California Globe. “He sacrificed his career to expose it.”
“Phil had firsthand evidence that Obama was secretly advancing Islamic hegemony in the U.S.,” Haney’s friend Bill Becker, told the California Globe. “He sacrificed his career to expose it.”
Who Killed Philip Haney?
Was it a “self-inflicted” gunshot, or vengeance from Islamic
terrorists and their deep state allies?
February 25, 2020
Lloyd
Billingsley
“On February 21, 2020 at
approximately 1012 hours,” according to Amador County, California
sheriff-coroner Martin A. Ryan, “deputies and detectives responded to the area
of Highway 124 and Highway 16 in Plymouth to the report of a male subject on
the ground with a gunshot wound. Upon their arrival, they located and
identified 66-year-old Philip Haney, who was deceased and appeared to have
suffered a single, self-inflicted gunshot wound. A firearm was located next to
Haney and his vehicle. This investigation is active and ongoing. No further
details will be released at this time.”
The establishment media ignored
the story but as Michelle Mears noted in the California Globe, Haney’s relatives and friends did not believe he had killed
himself. That left the question of motive, and high on the list of suspects
would be Islamic terrorists.
Haney was a UC Riverside alum
who worked as a field agricultural entomologist in the Middle East, where he
began studying Arabic and the Quran. In a 2016 interview, Frank Gaffney
asked Haney to comment on the behavior of “Islamic supremacists” and their
doctrine of shariah.
“Some people have heard about
ants, how they leave scent trails,” Haney said. “And other insects do it, too,
so they can follow each other around and not get lost. Well, that’s essentially
what shariah is. That is the universe that Muslims live inside, it forms the
boundaries of the world that they live in. And their attempt to implement
shariah on a global basis, from their perspective, is an attempt to establish
order in this chaotic, violent world that we live in. That’s why they always
say that Islam is a religion of peace. Because for them, shariah equals peace.”
The erudite Haney proved adept
at tracking terrorist groups, but as he explained in The Hill on May 5, 2016, the
Department of Homeland Security ordered him “to delete or modify several
hundred records of individuals tied to designated Islamist terror groups like
Hamas from the important federal database, the Treasury Enforcement
Communications System (TECS).”
As Haney told Gaffney, “The
mosque that [San Bernardino terrorist] Syed Farook attended was part of that
Tablighi Jamaat network. The administration deleted sixty-seven records out of
the system that I had worked on as a component of the Tablighi case.” So those
still part of that terrorist network might have a motive to silence Haney, who
provided a broader picture in See Something Say Nothing: A Homeland Security Officer Exposes
the Government's Submission to Jihad.
Haney also authored Frontpage
articles such as, “Deobond Attacks in San Bernardino, Sri Lanka,”
“The Terrorist Ties that Bind,” and
“The Assembly of Muslim Jurists of America’s Ominous Post-Election
Statement.” That extensive piece, Haney wrote at the
end, was “Finished at 2017 hours on January 19, 2017, the evening before the
Inauguration of Donald J. Trump as President.”
Trump called out Islamic
terrorism and according to Kerry Picket in the Washington Examiner, Haney was
“recently in contact with top officials about returning to work for the DHS.”
That would not please the DHS holdovers who went after Haney for telling the
truth about Islamic terrorists.
After Haney’s testimony to the Senate Judiciary Committee in 2016, Sen. Ted Cruz asked Jeh Johnson, DHS Secretary from
2013-17, if Haney’s testimony was accurate. “I have no idea. I don’t know who
Mr. Haney is,” Johnson replied. “I wouldn’t know him if he walked into the
room.”
Haney said DHS investigated him
nine times and revoked his security clearance. The Department of Justice
charged that Haney “misused a government computer,” charges later dropped.
Still, the news that Haney might be returning to DHS would not thrill POTUS 44
“wing man” Eric Holder, who has been telling reporters looking into DOJ
malfeasance to “shut the hell up.”
John Durham is mounting a
criminal investigation and as Sebastian Gorka explains, “the
counter-coup has begun” and “the deep state beast is writing in discomfiture.”
The coup clan failed to removed Trump from office and may now be convinced that
Trump will be reelected. So it is entirely possible that the death of DHS
whistleblower Phil Haney was the first shot fired in the deep state coverup.
“Phil
had firsthand evidence that Obama was secretly advancing Islamic hegemony in
the U.S.,” Haney’s friend Bill Becker, told the California Globe. “He
sacrificed his career to expose it.”
His suspicious death deserves
an investigation by the FBI, but at this writing, nothing has been announced.
As FBI critics might note, after Bernie Sanders supporter James Hodgkinson shot
down Steve Scalise, an FBI special agent told reporters it was too soon to say if the shooter had deliberately
targeted Republican lawmakers.
Meanwhile, according to the
California Globe, friends of Phil Haney said he was “preparing to go back on
the road during the 2020 election season.” That raises issues far beyond Amador
County, California.
If they manage to win the White
House, any of the leading Democrats would surely shut down all investigations
into any misconduct by the administration of POTUS 44. At this writing, the
Democrats’ leading contender is Rip Van Winkle communist Bernie Sanders, and
the election takes place on November 3. As President Trump says, we’ll have to
see what happens.
OPERATION
OBOMB:
DESTABILIZE AMERICA TO LAY GROUNDS FOR A MUSLIM-STYLE DICTATORSHIP
http://mexicanoccupation.blogspot.com/2017/08/seth-barron-obama-and-building-of.html
“Obama’s new home in Washington has
been described as the “nerve center” of the anti-Trump opposition.
Former attorney general Eric Holder has said that Obama is “ready to roll”
and has aligned himself with the “resistance.” Former high-level Obama
campaign staffers now work with a variety of groups organizing direct
action against Trump’s initiatives. “Resistance School,” for example, features
lectures by former campaign executive Sara El-Amine, author of the Obama Organizing.”
Barack Obama’s plot
for a third term for life
A Muslim dictatorship
like his crony paymasters, the 9-11 invading Saudis who have financed him for
decades.
“Obama has the totalitarian impulse. After all, he went around saying he
didn't have Constitutional authority to legalize the illegals, and then he
tried anyway. The courts stopped him.”
What was
Obama’s motive? Simple, he knew if he did that for Hillary, he’d own the next
President of the United States, and could blackmail her with the truth till the
end of time. It literally would have given him a 3rd and 4th term.
BARACK
Hussein OBAMA: THE CLOSET MUSLIM PSYCHOPATH WHO HATED
AMERICA!
"But
the Obamas are the center of the most delusional cult of personality that the
media has yet spawned. And so we get bizarre pieces like these."
The mullahs
rolled in cash as a result of rolling Obama and his gullible team over the
deal, knowing that Obama was desperate for some sort of
legacy. MONICA SHOWALTER
MUSLIM
DICTATORS, INCLUDING THE 9-11 INVADING SAUDIS, FUNDED THE PRESIDENTIAL
LIBRARIES OF BUSH, CLINTON and OBAMA!
CLOSET MUSLIM BARACK OBAMA’S CONSPIRACY
FOR A THIRD TERM FOR LIFE
First, destroy Trump and put Hillary away
if she doesn’t end up in jail.
HE PARTNERS WITH ZUCKERBERG, SOROS AND
LOUIS FARRAKHAN
“Obama would declare himself president
for life with Soros really running the show, as he did for the entire Obama
presidency.”
“Hillary was always small potatoes, a placeholder as it
were. Her health was always suspect. And do you think the plotters would have
let a doofus like Tim Kaine take office in the event that Hillary became
disabled?”
“Obama has the totalitarian impulse. After all, he went
around saying he didn't have Constitutional authority to legalize the illegals,
and then he tried anyway. The courts stopped him.”
“The bottom line 2 is this: Barack Obama is a Communist.
This was all an Obama operation. Why is anyone surprised that a communist
(Obama) tried to subvert an election. That is what Communists do. It is Barack
Obama and his people like Brennan and Clapper behaving to type. That's what
Maduro does in Venezuela. That's what the Castro brothers did. That's what
every communist and socialist nation does. THEY FIX
ELECTIONS!!”
“Hillary kept a
secret server overflowing with national security info which, more than likely,
was hacked. June 28, 2016, on a Phoenix tarmac, Bill Clinton met with Attorney
General Loretta Lynch to seal a deal insuring Hillary would not be prosecuted.”
“Obama, of course, covered up his own
role, depicting his presidency as eight years of heroic efforts to
repair the damage caused by the 2008 financial crash. At the end of those
eight years, however, Wall Street and the financial oligarchy were
fully recovered, enjoying record wealth, while working people were
poorer than before, a widening social chasm that made possible the
election of the billionaire con man and Demagogue in November 2016.”
David Bernstein & The
Heritage Foundation -
“Lawless: The Obama Administration’s
Unprecedented Assault on the Constitution and
the Rule of Law.”
“Lawless: The Obama Administration’s
Unprecedented Assault on the Constitution and
the Rule of Law.”
“The Lawlessness of the
Obama Administration: A never-ending story.”
Michael Barone – American Historian – Washington Examiner
Michael Barone – American Historian – Washington Examiner
BARACK HUSSEIN OBAMA’S MUSLIM HERITAGE
Earlier
this month, jihadists of the Al-Shabaab terror group hijacked a
bus heading to Garissa and ordered all the passengers to exit the vehicle. The
assailants asked for identification cards, then proceeded to separate the
Muslims from the Christians.
When
two Christians refused to recite the Islamic statement of faith, or Shahada,
they were executed.
THE OBOMBS AND HARVARD
OBAMA AND HIS SAUDIS PAYMASTERS… Did he serve them
well?
Malia, Michelle, Barack and the College
Admissions Scandal https://globalistbarackobama.blogspot.com/2019/03/malia-michelle-barack-and-college.html
Michelle was the next to
attend Harvard, in her case Harvard Law School. “Told by counselors that her
SAT scores and her grades weren’t good enough for an Ivy League school,” writes
Christopher Andersen in Barack and Michelle, “Michelle applied to Princeton and
Harvard anyway.”
GOOGLE
WHAT THE OBOMB DID FOR HIS SAUDIS PAYMASTERS
Barack Obama’s back door,
however, was unique to him. Before prosecutors send some of the dimmer
Hollywood stars to the slammer for their dimness, they might want to ask just
how much influence a Saudi billionaire peddled to get Obama into Harvard.
Participating in Muslim Capitol Day with Palestinian Islamic Jihad Convict Hatem Fariz
Participating in Muslim Capitol Day with Palestinian Islamic Jihad Convict Hatem Fariz
Extremists with terror ties lobby the Florida state legislature on issues of their concern.
Joe Kaufman, a Shillman Journalism Fellow at the David Horowitz Freedom Center, is Chairman of the Joe Kaufman Security Initiative and the 2014, 2016 and 2018 Republican Nominee for U.S. House of Representatives (Florida-CD23).
On February 4th to the 5th, Islamic extremist groups and their followers from across the state of Florida gathered in Tallahassee for the 10th annual Muslim Capitol Day to lobby the Florida state legislature on issues of their concern. Participating were leaders from Islamist organizations Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) and Emgage Action as well as convicted terrorist from Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ) Hatem Naji Fariz. Also participating was Iranian-American Florida State Representative Anna Eskamani, who continues to ignore the Islamist threat and work together with such fanatics.
Muslim Capitol Day is the brainchild of former Communications Director for the Florida office of CAIR, Ahmed Bedier. While with CAIR, Bedier acted as the unofficial spokesman in the media for PIJ North American leader Sami al-Arian, who, at the time, was going through a lengthy legal battle, after having been charged with “material support” for PIJ. During a December 2005 TV interview, when asked if he believed al-Arian’s involvement with PIJ was immoral, Bedier notoriously answered, “To a certain degree. Now, before 1995, there was nothing immoral about it.” Prior to 1995, PIJ took credit for five terrorist attacks resulting in eight murders.
Al-Arian was being charged along with five other individuals. One of the defendants, Hatem Fariz, participated at this year’s Muslim Capitol Day. In July 2006, Fariz pled guilty in federal court to providing services to associates of PIJ and received a 37-month prison sentence. According to the indictment against him and the five others, Fariz “was a PIJ member” and did “conspire… to commit offenses against the United States… by making and receiving contributions of funds, goods, and services to or for the benefit of the Palestinian Islamic Jihad.”
This year’s event was sponsored by several radical Muslim groups, including groups associated with terrorism. One group, the Islamic Circle of North America (ICNA), presently has an imam, Ashrafuz Zaman Khan, who, in November 2013, was sentenced to death for his role as a death squad leader, during the 1971 genocide of Bangladesh. Khan was found responsible for the torture and murder of 18 individuals. Khan has previously served as ICNA’s National Secretary General, National Vice President, and President of ICNA’s New York chapter.
Speaking at Muslim Capitol Day were CAIR’s Hiba Abdul-Rahim, Emgage’s Vetnah “Yemen” Monessar, and State Representative Anna Vishkaee Eskamani.
Hiba Rahim is the Northwest Florida Regional Coordinator for CAIR. Rahim has also had involvement with Islamic Relief (IR). Both groups have major ties to terrorism. CAIR has financial and foundation links to Hamas, and IR has been banned by a number of nations. In September 2019, Rahim posted an anti-American screed onto Facebook accusing the last three Presidential administrations of “committing war crimes” against Muslims.
Vetnah Monessar is the Executive Director of the Florida chapter of Emgage. Monessar received her degree in Islamic studies and religion from an online university run by Bilal Philips, an “unindicted co-conspirator” of the 1993 World Trade Center bombing and proponent of amputations and beheadings ‘to fight crime.’ Monessar has used her social media to promote extreme anti-Semite Louis Farrakhan. In October 2019, she spoke at an event hosted by Bassem Alhalabi, a former assistant to Sami al-Arian and who, in June 2003, was charged by the US Department of Commerce with illegally shipping a $13,000 military-grade thermal imaging device to Syria and who is also in favor of chopping off hands to deter thievery.
Anna Eskamani was elected to the Florida State House, in November 2018, representing Orlando. Eskamani grew up in a strict Iranian household, where she claims to have endured sexual repression and, as a female, “was taught not to call attention to myself.” She has spoken at CAIR functions and has been featured at events organized by former CAIR operative Rasha Mubarak, who posts photos of Hamas celebrations onto social media, ridicules Orthodox Jews, and says Israel has no right to defend herself. At the January 2018 Orlando Women’s March, Eskamani introduced Mubarak, and the two warmly embraced in front of the crowd.
Florida State Senator Annette Taddeo, who represents Miami, was elected to the State Senate in a September 2017 special election. Taddeo greeted the Muslim Capitol Day group at her Senate office with a large colorful printed sign, stating, “SENATOR TADDEO WELCOMES YOU TO MUSLIM CAPITOL DAY,” and she posted a picture from it onto her Senate Facebook and Twitter pages. The sign includes both the Muslim Capitol Day logo and the logo of the Florida Senate. Taddeo went as far as to allow event goers to pose for photos, while sitting at her desk.
For Representative Eskamani and Senator Taddeo to participate and involve themselves with such groups and individuals, like the Hamas-related CAIR and a convicted member of Palestinian Islamic Jihad, is outrageous and a conflict of interests and suggests that they do not have the moral capacity or integrity to serve the public any longer. Eskamani and Taddeo should either resign or be thrown out of office for failing to safeguard their constituencies.
Organizations such as CAIR, Emgage and Islamic Relief and terrorists like Hatem Fariz and their supporters like Rasha Mubarak are threats (in the case of Fariz, a documented threat) to our social order and national security. For government officials to (literally) embrace these Islamic extremists is endangering the welfare of our citizens. All those holding public office must be called out and held accountable for their actions and be pressured into repudiating their activities or be forced from office immediately.
Beila Rabinowitz, Director of Militant Islam Monitor, contributed to this report.
“Of course, one of the main reasons the nation
is now “divided, resentful and angry” is because race-baiting,
Islamist, class warrior Barack Hussein Obama was president
for eight long years." MATTHEW VADUM
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