How two terror-linked families influencing US politics

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It’s not just these families – it’s terror linked orgs liked Hamas-CAIR, MAS, ISNA et al.

A tale of two terror-linked families influencing US politics

By Hesham Shehab, Lifezette, Mar 6, 2020:

Thanks to a complex public relations strategy, Islamist organizations have succeeded in gradually recasting American Islamists as celebrated humanitarians and social reformers.

March 6, 2020 (American Thinker) — 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.

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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.

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Tamara Hussey-Mecklenburg
Tamara Hussey-Mecklenburg
4 years ago

Islam is a terrorist organization. Every Muslim is a terrorist sympathizer.

They ALL have terrorism agendas and influences. It’s jihad.

Islamic immigration is treason and a war crime.

Sheesh.

MuhamMUDTheFakeProphet
MuhamMUDTheFakeProphet
4 years ago

The author of the original piece, Hesham Shebab. I’m willing to bet it’s a muslum, thus the use of the lie that is the neologism “islamist” in the original article.

Tamara Hussey-Mecklenburg
Tamara Hussey-Mecklenburg
4 years ago

Absolutely excellent point.

Bill Kay
Bill Kay
4 years ago

Bravo you might consider running for office it seems our leaders cant seem to figure that out .

Tamara Hussey-Mecklenburg
Tamara Hussey-Mecklenburg
4 years ago
Reply to  Bill Kay

I greatly appreciate the support! I would love to but my Royal status prevents it. I’m currently second in line to the throne of Russia. My mother will be publicly claiming the throne August 2020.

Kathy Brown, Esq.
Kathy Brown, Esq.
4 years ago

Hahahaha Tamara! That’s hilarious! That Mecklenburg strain pops up again-

Will your Mom be the Tsaritsa then? Or does she favor Tsarina?

Kathy Brown, Esq.
Kathy Brown, Esq.
4 years ago

True Tamara, and even the “nice muslims” are complicit. Knowing they’ll literally be killed by their own, they never criticize jihad. And when push comes to shove, they’re back in the hijabs and plunging the knife directly into your back.

Literally.

Tamara Hussey-Mecklenburg
Tamara Hussey-Mecklenburg
4 years ago

You know, all the moderate Muslims I’ve spoken with over the years openly declare that Saudi Arabia does everything just right.

They can find the door to hades and please walk through. The rest of us prefer life not to be hell on earth.

Kathy Brown, Esq.
Kathy Brown, Esq.
4 years ago

Wow, Saudi is nirvana eh? Never heard that before. How sick!

And you’re so right about their utterly desolate lives. Here are people who can’t wait to die, they hate their lives so much. We have to reconcile ourselves to our eventual death since we have joy in this world; we’re Judeo-Christian. But when Satan’s your god (aka allah)? D _ _ n straight you can’t wait to die.

Rusty
Rusty
4 years ago

Have you seen the video where I woman had come to a town square without her veil? She was executed on the spot while many men stood around and watched.

Kathy Brown, Esq.
Kathy Brown, Esq.
4 years ago
Reply to  Rusty

Rusty, I’ve seen ’em all.

If you ever want to see what gets taken down go here http://www.barenakedislam.com. Here’s more of the same:https://barenakedislam.com/2020/03/12/iranian-muslim-thug-assaults-a-woman-in-the-street-whose-hijab-he-decided-wasnt-tied-tight-enough/

Rusty
Rusty
4 years ago

Thanks for the reminder! I have been at the page, but had forgotten it. Thanks!

taxpayer22
taxpayer22
4 years ago

Leftie Moon-bats love Islam because it is hostile to Western Civilization and freedom. Then, the Muslims (who do not criticize of slavery) will kill the Kafir.

An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile, hoping it will eat him last.

Bill Kay
Bill Kay
4 years ago
Reply to  taxpayer22

You mean like Europe .

MuhamMUDTheFakeProphet
MuhamMUDTheFakeProphet
4 years ago

The muslum author of the original piece is advancing the lie of the islamist, how ironically disturbing. If other f’ing muslums don’t support “islamist” terrorism then why don’t they do anything to stop it or better yet do something for the families of the victims of the worldwide jihad?

Achmed Mohandjob
Achmed Mohandjob
4 years ago

I keep saying that Bernard converted to mohammedanism. I don’t know when he said his first shittada, but there’s ample evidence that he did.
Look at what Bernard has been doing.
Actions speak louder than words.

dba_ unruly_ vagabond_trader
dba_ unruly_ vagabond_trader
4 years ago

Not the first time Americans cling to delusion.

tonvar
tonvar
4 years ago

Almost every mainstream newspaper and news gathering organization has been infiltrated by Muslims or their useful idiots or their paid sympathizers. They present Muslim backwardness as righteous and heroic and Non-Muslim pushback against it as mean. The staple of almost every WaPo, NYT, Yahoo news, Reuters, AFP, AP news feed is either a story about how hard it is for Muslims to live in the West due to Islamophobia, how Muslims are persecuted in lands where they have either interloped into (Burma, India), or aren’t being let into Western countries on demand (the current Greek crisis).
This is not by accident and is right from the Muslim Brotherhood playbook of seeking to hijack Western institutions for it’s own ends.

John Acord
John Acord
4 years ago

Whether Sanders obtains the nomination is simply not an issue any longer. He will not. Biden is a proxy for Hillary. Probably Bloomy as her VP. The Republicans need to make a central issue out of the failure of the Commiecrats to repudiate Bernie the Communist and his supporters as well as the Squad and their undisguised antisemitism. They need to pledge no Communists or antisemites will be appointed in their administration. They won’t, I assure you. A vote for Hillary is a vote for Communism and Anti Semitism.

Stephen Honig
Stephen Honig
4 years ago

You would think in 2020 people were smarter than years ago, but I guess not.

Jack
Jack
4 years ago
Reply to  Stephen Honig

Stephen, so many Americans are victims of their own imagined self importance. They want to be admired by the rest of the world’s population as being wholly accepting of ideologies other than their own, in particular cults such as Islam. They have been blinded to the fact that the Islamic death cult is not a religion but a political lifestyle that has intellectual and physical slavery, sexual depravity, murder and death at it’s core, ultimately
delivering not “diversity” but “ADVERSITY”

Charles Martell III
Charles Martell III
4 years ago

These ingrates & grifters who follow the insane prophet are planted in western nations acting like the Subversives they are . . . will they one day rise up and repeat what they have been doing in Sweden, France & Britain?
Izzzlam is not compatible with democracy ever !

Fred Alexander
Fred Alexander
4 years ago

Quote from Marco Polo:
“The militant Muslim is the person who beheads the infidel, while the moderate Muslim holds the feet of the victim.”

disqus_dDOVNnCOZH
disqus_dDOVNnCOZH
4 years ago

Control on this kind of people will not come from government, it has to come from people. We have to stop being stupid and stop being politically correct and openly speak against and openly hate these people. Hating bad people, practices and things is not bigotry. If we cannot swallow being labeled as bigot then nothing will change. We have to send message to the liberal half of our nation that we do not care about their feelings and the labels they put on the rest of us and if their actions or inaction jeopardize our way of life we will react and they are not going to like it. It is either they or us.

imwithstoopid
imwithstoopid
4 years ago

And the joke goes on.

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