Frontpagemag Editor’s note: In this monograph, Robert Spencer reveals the
disquieting agenda and goals of those who are working hard to get
Muslims elected to political office at the national, state, and local
level. He shows how this initiative is gaining ground despite the frank
anti-Americanism of Ilhan Omar and others – or is it because of that anti-Americanism?
Building power
“Invest in building power for Muslims in politics,” is the
invitation from the Muslim Public Affairs Council (MPAC) in a tweet on
May 23, 2020, which features a photo of a smiling Salam al-Marayati,
MPAC’s President and co-founder, with the notorious Rep. Adam Schiff
(D-Ca.).[1]
“We ensure that Muslim voices are heard by decision-makers in
Washington, DC,” the tweet also says, “and we work diligently with
policymakers like Rep. Adam Schiff to advocate for legislation that
protects our communities.”[2]
To those who are aware of Adam Schiff’s central role in the attempt
to frame President Trump for an impeachable offense and railroad him out
of office, MPAC’s upbeat declaration of civic engagement was hardly
reassuring. Even more disturbing was the fact that the stated goal was
not something to the effect of “Help Muslims begin to participate in the
American political process,” much less anything such as “Encourage
Muslims to assimilate and adopt American values,” but “invest in
building power for Muslims in politics.”
Building power. It is not unreasonable to surmise from this
language that MPAC, at very least, appears to be aiming toward
establishing a Muslim bloc in American politics, one that will wield
power and influence with its Muslim identity at the forefront,
contending for candidates and policies that it deems to be in line with
Islamic teachings and values.
While there are many organizations in the United States defending
their own group’s interests, MPAC’s endeavor is different from the
others in that Islamic law, Sharia, is authoritarian by nature, denying
the freedom of speech, as well as aggressive, expansionist, and
supremacist. In its classic formulations, Islamic law denies equality of
rights to women and non-Muslims, and allows for a host of practices
that are incompatible in numerous with American principles and customs;
discussion of these issues, however, has been effectively silenced by
charges of “Islamophobia” and “bigotry,” not least from al-Marayati and
MPAC itself.
Ann Corcoran of Refugee Resettlement Watch asked pointed questions
in November 2019, after another Islamic advocacy group, the Council on
American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), sent out a press release celebrating
the large number of Muslims who had just been elected to various
offices. “One might wonder,” Corcoran wrote, “as I did here in 2007 why if refugees and Muslim migrants of all stripes were eager to assimilate did they need to place their
people (representing their religion) into local, state and federal
government? And, just imagine, I asked then, if we would blatantly
say—we want Catholics, Jews, other Christians as our leaders—wouldn’t
all hell break loose in the media? Yet, no one seems to care if CAIR
says we are electing our people, Muslims, everywhere we can!”[3]
Becoming dominant
Yet there is ample cause to be concerned about this. Not a few
Muslim leaders in the United States have been quite clear about their
long-term goals and intentions, including Omar Ahmad, CAIR’s co-founder
and longtime Board chairman, who once said in an unguarded moment:
“Islam isn’t in America to be equal to any other faith, but to become
dominant. The Koran, the Muslim book of scripture, should be the highest
authority in America, and Islam the only accepted religion on Earth.”[4]
When confronted about these words, Ahmad vehemently denied saying
them; however, the original reporter, Lisa Gardiner of the Fremont Argus, hardly a hardline “Islamophobe” with an axe to grind, stood by her story.[5]
What’s more, CAIR spokesman Ibrahim Hooper once said: “I wouldn’t
want to create the impression that I wouldn’t like the government of the
United States to be Islamic sometime in the future.”[6]
Meanwhile, according to a captured internal document, the Muslim
Brotherhood (to which all the major Muslim groups in the US, including
CAIR, are linked) is dedicated in its own words to “eliminating and
destroying Western civilization from within, and sabotaging its
miserable house….so that it falls, and Allah’s religion is victorious
over other religions.”[7]
Then there was the Washington, DC imam Abdul Alim Musa, who declared
in 2007 that he wanted to “establish an Islamic State of America by
2050.”[8]
Record numbers
Whether the drive to elect as many Muslim candidates to office as
possible is part of the effort to make Islam “dominant” in the United
States, or is rather a healthy manifestation of Muslim assimilation, it
has been gathering steam in recent years. NPR reported in July 2018 that
“a record number of Muslim Americans ran for statewide or national
office this election cycle, the most since the terror attacks of Sept.
11, 2001, made Islam a political target for many, according to Muslim
political groups. The Muslim civil rights group, Emgage, estimates that
as many as 100 Muslims filed to run for elected office this year. Of
those 100, about 50 Muslim-American candidates remain more than midway
through the primary season…which is significantly higher than the dozen
that ran in 2016.”[9]
NPR claimed that this was because of “Islamophobia” and Donald
Trump: “Many of the candidates say they were motivated by growing
anti-Muslim sentiment in the U.S., inspired by President Trump’s
anti-Muslim rhetoric and policies. ‘I’m running for office because I
felt a dire need to help the community,’ says Saima Farooqui, who, if
elected, would be the first Muslim representative in the Florida
statehouse [she lost]. ‘[Trump] has kind of ignited the minorities to be
together and stand with each other and to make a difference.’”[10]
The Washington Post agreed, running a story with the headline “The blue
Muslim wave: American Muslims launch political campaigns, hope to
deliver ‘sweet justice’ to Trump.”[11]
The Post and NPR were not alone. This unprecedented number of Muslim
candidates received abundant and enthusiastic attention from the
establishment media. The Associated Press announced happily in July
2019: “Record number of Muslim Americans make bids for elected office.”[12]
Despite the evidence to the contrary that was right before their faces
in the very fact of these candidacies themselves, some media outlets
still did their best to portray Muslims as the victims of widespread
discrimination and harassment in the United States. The Seattle Times
headline for AP’s story was “Muslims run for office in record numbers
but the path is uphill.”[13] Minnesota’s Star-Tribune headlined the same story: “Muslim candidates running in record numbers face backlash.”[14]
The article laments that “the path to victory can be tougher for a
Muslim American. Some promising campaigns already have fizzled out while
many more face strong anti-Muslim backlash.”[15]
As an example of this backlash, the AP offered the claim that “in
Michigan, Democrat candidate for governor Abdul El-Sayed continues to
face unfounded claims from a GOP rival that he has ties to the
controversial Muslim Brotherhood, even though Republican and Democratic
politicians alike have denounced the accusations as ‘conspiracy
theories.’”[16]
However, it was not simply a “conspiracy theory” that, as the
Christian Post reported, “while a student at the University of Michigan,
El-Sayed was ‘an active member’ and vice-president of the Muslim
Students’ Association (MSA) – a group founded mainly by members of the
Muslim Brotherhood for the express purpose of spreading Wahhabist
ideology — an austere form of Islam that insists on literal
interpretation of the Quran and views those who disagree as enemies.
The MSA bills itself as a networking and support group for Muslim
students. But according to terrorism expert Patrick Poole, the MSA ‘has
been a virtual terror factory. Time after time after time again, we see
these terrorists . . . MSA leaders, MSA presidents, MSA national
presidents — who’ve been implicated, charged and convicted in terrorist
plots.’”[17]
Yet throughout El-Sayed’s unsuccessful gubernatorial bid, his
campaign refused to address suspicions about his connections to the
Muslim Brotherhood except to charge those raising concerns with
“Islamophobia.”[18]
In reality, there was abundant reason to be concerned about the
priorities and even the loyalties of Muslim candidates, given the fact
that mainstream Islamic teaching holds that one’s allegiance to Islam,
and to the worldwide Islamic community (umma), transcends all
other loyalties, including one’s loyalty to one’s nation. Whenever such
concerns arose, they were buried under accusations of “Islamophobia,”
and legitimate concerns were ignored.
The strange case of Ammar Campa-Najjar
Take, for example, Ammar Campa-Najjar, a Democratic candidate for a
California Congressional seat. Campa-Najjar is not a Muslim at all, but a
Christian; nevertheless, he has earned a place in these considerations
with his questionable statements about his grandfather. In October 2018,
Joel Pollack reported in Breitbart that Campa-Najjar “deleted an
Instagram post in which he referred to his grandfather, Palestinian
terrorist Muhammad Yousef al-Najjar, as a ‘legend.’ Muhammad Yousef
al-Najjar was ‘a senior member of the Palestinian terrorist group Black
September that murdered 11 Israeli athletes at the 1972 Munich
Olympics,’ according to the Times of Israel, and a deputy for Palestine
Liberation Organization (PLO) leader Yasser Arafat.”[19]
The Breitbart report added: “Earlier this year, when Campa-Najjar’s
roots were first reported, he condemned his grandfather’s actions and
supported peace. But in a 2015 Instagram post praising his father, who
is a former Palestinian Authority (PA) official and Palestinian
ambassador, Campa-Najjar referred to his grandfather as a ‘legend.’ He
offered no criticism or condemnation of his grandfather’s terrorist
acts. Breitbart News reported the existence of that Instagram post on
Monday, as well as another in which he noted that his family was close
to Yasser Arafat’s.”[20]
What’s more, Campa-Najjar “received a campaign donation from a
Palestinian ambassador; and donated campaign funds to a radical group,
CAIR, while taking donations from CAIR officials. Breitbart News
reported earlier this week that Campa-Najjar’s campaign made a ‘civic
donation’ of $650.00 to CAIR in 2017, and that he had received nearly
$9,000 from CAIR officials. Breitbart News had reached out to
Campa-Najjar’s campaign Tuesday to ask about his appearance on the ‘top
ten’ list of political candidates who had received contributions from
‘Islamist’ sources, as compiled by the Middle East Forum’s ‘Islamist
Money in Politics’ (IMIP) project. (Campa-Najjar himself is a Christian,
of mixed Palestinian and Mexican-American origin.)”[21]
The money from CAIR is a matter of grave concern. Nihad Awad and
Omar Ahmad, two officials of the Islamic Association for Palestine (IAP)
(which was listed as one of the Muslim Brotherhood’s allied
organizations in the 1991 memorandum), founded this Hamas-linked Muslim
Brotherhood group in 1994. The federal government shut down the IAP in
2005 as a Hamas front.
The Immigration and Naturalization Service reported in 2001 that the
IAP was so close to its parent organization that it published and
distributed Hamas communiqués on its own letterhead, “as well as other
written documentation to include the HAMAS charter and glory records,
which are tributes to HAMAS’ violent ‘successes.’”[22]
Oliver Revell, a former chief of the FBI’s counter-terrorism
department, called the IAP “a front organization for Hamas that engages
in propaganda for Islamic militants.”[23]
Several CAIR officials have already been convicted of participating
in violent jihad activities. Randall Todd (“Ismail”) Royer, CAIR’s
former communications specialist and civil rights coordinator,
participated in the “Virginia jihad group,” which was indicted on
forty-one counts of “conspiracy to train for and participate in a
violent jihad overseas.”[24] Royer served over a decade in prison after a plea bargain that had him pleading guilty to lesser charges.[25]
Ghassan Elashi, the founder of CAIR’s Texas chapter, likewise served
time in prison for jihad activity. In 2009, he was sentenced to
sixty-five years in prison for funneling over $12 million in charitable
contributions to Hamas while serving as head of the Holy Land
Foundation.[26]
Other former CAIR officials have been convicted of jihad terror
activities as well, raising the question of how this supposedly moderate
group failed so abysmally to distinguish “moderates” from “extremists.”
CAIR itself was named as an unindicted co-conspirator in the Holy
Land case. The organization not only facilitated donations to the Holy
Land Foundation, but also received money from it – no less than half a
million dollars. CAIR cofounder Nihad Awad vehemently denied this when
terror researcher Steven Emerson confronted him: “This is an outright
lie. Our organization did not receive any seed money from the Holy Land
Foundation. CAIR raises its own funds and we challenge Mr. Emerson to
provide even a shred of evidence to support his ridiculous claim.”
Emerson then published an image of the canceled check.[27]
Meanwhile, the two highest-profile Muslim politicians in the United
States, Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.) and Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-Mich.)
showed that to dismiss concerns about the loyalty of Muslim candidates
simply as signs of “bigotry” was facile and dangerous.
Ilhan Omar
Allegations that Omar had married her brother and funneled campaign
funds to the company run by her lover and then husband dogged Omar’s
first term as Congresswoman from Minnesota, despite the establishment
media’s determination to ignore them. Even more disturbing, however,
were the numerous indications that the patriotism and loyalty to the
United States of this migrant from Somalia were not as fervent as the
media and her supporters would have had us believe.
On October 15, 2017, Omar tweeted about “thousands of Somalis killed
by the American forces,” and added the hashtag “#NotTodaySatan,” with
“Satan” apparently referring to the American troops who had gone to
Somalia on a humanitarian mission.[28]
Then on January 8, 2020, investigative journalist Matt Margolis
noted that Omar “was seen laughing and joking around during a House
Progressive Caucus press conference about Iran at the same time Rep.
Sheila Jackson Lee was talking about U.S. casualties in Iraq. In
addition to laughing, at one point, Omar can be seen talking to Rep.
Rashida Tlaib behind her, and appears to be joking and smiling, even
when she turns back towards the camera.”[29]
However, Omar wasn’t nearly as amused when, as Fox News reported two
days later, “a northern Minnesota county on Tuesday night opted to ban
the resettlement of refugees within its boundaries.”[30]
Beltrami County, Minnesota voted to ban refugee resettlement after
Somali Muslims have arrived in the state in large numbers, making Omar’s
district the leading center for jihad terrorist recruitment in the
United States.[31]
The refugees were also blamed for a sharp rise in rape, sex trafficking
and other crimes. Beltrami County voted accordingly. Republican State
Rep. Matt Grossell noted: “President Trump empowered counties to have a
voice in the decision-making process for the federal refugee
resettlement program. Tonight, Beltrami County exercised that option.”[32]
Unlike the deaths of American soldiers, Ilhan Omar found this no
laughing matter, tweeting on January 8: “Over 20 years ago, the state of
Minnesota welcomed my family with open arms. I never would’ve had the
opportunities that led me to Congress had I been rejected. What Beltrami
County is doing is denying refugees a chance at a better life.”[33]
So apparently Minnesotans weren’t allowed to try to provide a better
life for themselves and their children. They must instead be wholly
concerned with providing Muslim migrants a better life. Meanwhile, it
didn’t seem to have occurred to Omar that those refugees about whom she
was so concerned had a place of refuge in the United States because of
the actions of those American soldiers she so disdained.
That incident unfolded two days after Omar, in the wake of the
killing of Iranian General Qassem Soleimani, effectively invited the
Iranian regime to target Trump hotels in jihad terror attacks, tweeting:
“Trump needs to immediately divest from his businesses and comply with
the emoluments clause. Iran could threaten Trump hotels *worldwide* and
he could provoke war over the loss of revenue from skittish guests. His
business interests should not be driving military decisions.”[34]
Omar dismisses all criticism of her statements, which have been
remarkably consistent in support jihad and the weakening of the U.S. and
its allies, as “Islamophobia,” tweeting: “There is nothing shocking
about the right clutching their pearls at everything I say or do. It’s
however entertaining to watch how transparently their anti-Muslim
rhetoric has been, as they use colorful language to cast me as their
lead villain. Bless their hearts!”[35]
She also tweeted a video in which the late comedian George Carlin
asserts that the U.S. is “not very good at anything” besides war.[36]
And so once again the question arose: was Ilhan Omar a traitor who
hated America? Was it really wise for her opposition to shy away from
all efforts to question her loyalties, and to accept the contention that
all such questions crossed the line into bigotry?
It was also noteworthy that Omar’s warning that Trump’s “business
interests should not be driving military decisions” made no sense,
because clearly the fact that Trump owns hotels that Iran could target
didn’t stop him from going after the notorious Iranian military leader
Qassem Soleimani. But as far as Omar and her ideological allies were
concerned, it didn’t matter how much they had to twist their logic into
pretzels to get Trump, as long as they made the President look bad. That
imperative drove Omar even to give a military suggestion to a hostile
foreign power. The mullahs and their henchmen hadn’t said anything about
targeting Trump hotels, so here was a United States Congresswoman to
give them a marvelous new idea about how they could murder Americans and
others, and further menace the United States.
The definition of treason is giving aid and comfort to the enemy.
The leaders of the Islamic Republic of Iran order their people to chant
“Death to America” in mosques every Friday, and repeatedly vow that they
will ultimately destroy the United States of America and the state of
Israel. They were doing this before Qassem Soleimani was killed, and
before (and during) the conclusion of the nuclear deal with Barack
Obama, and they’re doing it now. How was giving them a suggestion about
how they could target the United States, whether or not they have or
would have thought of it themselves, not giving aid and comfort to the enemy, and hence treason?
When she took the oath of office to become a member of the United
States House of Representatives, Omar swore to “support and defend the
Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and
domestic,” as well as to “bear true faith and allegiance to the same.”
Inviting, out of a hysterical hostility to the President of the United
States, a nation that regularly chants “Death to America” to strike
American-owned businesses – was that supporting and defending the nation
against foreign enemies? If anyone had ever asked Omar such questions,
which of course no one did, Omar might well have split hairs and
asserted that she suggested no attack on the Constitution, which was
what she specifically swore to defend, but clearly the oath uses
“Constitution” as a metonymy for the nation as a whole.
Abetting this impression was the fact that Omar on the same day
demonstrated her hostility to the country that she had sworn to protect
and defend. She tweeted the Carlin video with the comment: “It’s no
laughing matter,” just so that we were clear that she didn’t mean any
joke. She was seriously offering the claim that the country to which she
had sworn allegiance and which she represented in its Legislative
Branch was just a war-mongering blunderer that was not good at anything
besides being militarily aggressive. Meanwhile, she invited the military
aggression of one of America’s foremost enemies. If the Islamic
Republic of Iran turned out to be not good at much of anything besides
war against the United States, would Ilhan Omar have had any problem
with that?
Despite all this and more, it is, of course, inconceivable that any
treason charges will ever be brought against Ilhan Omar. Her hatred of
America plays well among the American Leftists who share it; the
Democratic Party establishment would condemn any such charges as a
partisan attack and the attacker as a racist right-wing white
supremacist and enemy of all that is good.
Rashida Tlaib
Ilhan Omar’s Congressional colleague, Rep. Rashida Tlaib, has
likewise demonstrated many times that it is entirely reasonable to raise
questions about where her loyalties really lie. At the celebration
following her victory in the Democratic Party Congressional primary,
Tlaib wrapped herself in a flag. Not the American flag, but the
Palestinian flag.[37]
It was not an isolated moment of simple exuberance; Tlaib has
numerous connections to the Palestinian jihad. Journalist Valerie
Richardson reported in the Washington Times on January 14, 2019 that
Tlaib was posed for photos with “Palestinian activist Abbas Hamideh, a
staunch defender of the terrorist group Hezbollah,” at Tlaib’s
“swearing-in ceremony in Detroit. Mr. Hamideh tweeted a photo of himself
Saturday with Ms. Tlaib along with the caption, ‘I was honored to be at
Congresswoman @RashidaTlaib swearing in ceremony in #Detroit and
private dinner afterward with the entire family, friends and activists
across the country.’”[38]
A year later, according to the Times of Israel, Tlaib “retweeted
then removed a tweet falsely blaming Israelis for the death of a
Palestinian child.”[39]
Tlaib “retweeted a tweet by Hanan Ashrawi, a top Palestinian official,
who was quote-tweeting an account, realSeifBitar, that accused Israeli
settlers of kidnapping, assaulting and throwing into a well an
eight-year-old child.”[40]
When it became clear that the child had drowned, rather than being
killed by murderous Zionists, Ashrawi published a retraction. In
contrast, although she took down her initial retweet, Tlaib didn’t
retweet the retraction. Tlaib at that time had nearly 900,000 followers
on Twitter. Hundreds of thousands likely saw her initial tweet before
she took it down.
Tlaib also displayed an ugly authoritarian streak, saying in an
October 2019 speech in Detroit that if Trump Cabinet members failed to
comply with Congressional subpoenas issued during the impeachment
imbroglio, “they’re trying to figure out, no joke, is it the D.C. police
that goes and gets them? We don’t know. Where do we hold them?”[41]
Tlaib added: “This is the first time we've ever had a situation like
this,” and that consequently, she and other Democrat leaders were
“trying to tread carefully” into this “uncharted territory.”[42]
She volunteered her own district for this noble undertaking: “I will
tell them they can hold all those people right here in Detroit.”[43]
Movita Johnson-Harrell
Another Muslim politician, former Pennsylvania State Assembly Rep.
Movita Johnson-Harrell, illustrates another concern that Muslim
candidates raise, or would raise if the United States had a sane and
healthy public square at this point. In March 2019, Johnson-Harrell
denounced a Christian prayer in the State Assembly as “Islamophobic.”
The “Islamophobia,” according to Johnson-Harrell, was committed by
another state Representative, Stephanie Borowicz, who prayed this to
open a legislative session: “Jesus, you are our only hope. At the name
of Jesus, every knee will bow and every tongue will confess Jesus, that
you are Lord.”[44]
Johnson-Harrell was livid. The prayer, she declared, was “highly
offensive to me, my guests, and other members of the House.”[45]
In a statement, she added that the prayer “blatantly represented the
Islamophobia that exists among some leaders — leaders that are supposed
to represent the people. I came to the Capitol to help build
bipartisanship and collaborations regardless of race or religion to
enhance the quality of life for everyone in the Commonwealth.”[46]
There may have been a real point in there. Rep. Borowicz’s prayer
could legitimately have been inappropriate in a setting in which not
everyone present was Christian. However, many imams offer prayers at
various legislative bodies that are not non-sectarian, but manifestly
Islamic and even condemning of Jews and Christians, while the non-Muslim
lawmakers stand with oblivious heads bowed.
But “Islamophobic”? This illustrated yet again how absurd charges of
“Islamophobia” are, and how some Muslims sometimes regard as offensive
any manifestation of faith. Johnson-Harrell’s charge of “Islamophobia”
should have come as sobering news for the comfortable Christians of the
West who have made an idol out of “interfaith dialogue” and fastidiously
avoid saying anything remotely critical about Islam, even as the Muslim
persecution of Christians continues worldwide.
Movita Johnson-Harrell provided proof of the futility of such
endeavors. By calling Borowicz’s prayer “Islamophobic,” she was in
effect saying that the public expression of the Christian Faith mocked
Islam and despised Islamic teachings.
The lesson was clear: Christians should make no public expression of
their faith at all, and convert to Islam, so as to avoid mocking,
provoking, and offending Muslims, and poking them in the eye. Was this
what an elected representative to the assembly of a state in the United
States of America should have been standing for?
In the face of Johnson-Harrell’s rage, Pennsylvania House Minority
Whip Jordan Harris, a Democrat (of course), immediately began to give
her what she wanted, stating: “Let me be clear. I am a Christian. I
spend my Sunday mornings in church worshiping and being thankful for all
that I have. But in no way does that mean I would flaunt my religion at
those who worship differently than I do. There is no room in our
Capitol building for actions such as this, and it’s incredibly
disappointing that today’s opening prayer was so divisive.”[47]
So Harris said that Christians must not flaunt their religion. Not
coincidentally, that is exactly what Islamic law says about Christians:
that they should carry on their worship quietly, behind closed doors,
and never make public display of it. Meanwhile, speaking of flaunting
one’s religion, Movita Johnson-Harrell wears a hijab. Harris was not on
record objecting to that kind of flaunting one’s religion.
In December 2019, Rep. Johnson-Harrell was charged with perjury, as
well as accused of buying luxury clothes and properties with nonprofit
funds. She resigned her seat in the Pennsylvania State Assembly.
Movita Johnson-Harrell was not a jihadi. And corrupt officials of
all creeds can be found more easily than anything else in this world.
However, her story was illustrative of what is perhaps the most
important consideration regarding Muslim candidates for elective office
in the United States: the career trajectory of Movita Johnson-Harrell is
another indication of the dangers of identity politics. She became a
state representative because she is a Muslim. She was a symbol of the
Democratic Party’s commitment to “diversity.” No one knew or cared
whether she would be an honest or competent state representative.
In that, Johnson-Harrell’s story is similar to that of Mohamed Noor,
the Muslim police officer in Minneapolis who was hired despite
demonstrating his unfitness for the job in numerous ways, and who
ultimately shot and killed an unarmed, pajama-clad woman who had called
the police to report a rape. Noor was only on the Minneapolis police
force because he was a Muslim, despite numerous indications of his
incompetence. A woman is dead in that case. In the case of Movita
Johnson-Harrell, Medicaid and Social Security disability funds were
diverted into her coffers.
The lesson is clear: why don’t we go back to supporting candidates
based on their merits, instead of on their religion, ethnicity, race, or
gender? Oh, that would be “racist”?
Robert Spencer is the director of Jihad Watch and a Shillman Fellow at the David Horowitz Freedom Center. He is author of 21 books, including the New York Times bestsellers The Politically Incorrect Guide to Islam (and the Crusades) and The Truth About Muhammad. His latest book is Rating America’s Presidents: An America-First Look at Who Is Best, Who Is Overrated, and Who Was An Absolute Disaster. Follow him on Twitter here. Like him on Facebook here.
Notes:
[1] MPAC, Twitter, May 23, 2020. https://twitter.com/mpac_national/status/1264316684904599553
[2] Ibid.
[3] Ann Corcoran, “CAIR Crows: Muslims are Winning Big in Local
Elections,” Refugee Resettlement Watch, November 8, 2019.
[4] Art Moore, “Did CAIR founder say Islam to rule America?,” WND, December 11, 2006.
[5] Ibid.
[6] Minneapolis Star Tribune, April 4, 1993, quoted in Daniel
Pipes and Sharon Chadha, “CAIR: Islamists Fooling the Establishment,”
Middle East Quarterly, Spring 2006.
[7] Mohamed Akram, “An Explanatory Memorandum on the General
Strategic Goal for the Group in North America,” May 22, 1991, Government
Exhibit 003-0085, U.S. vs. HLF, et al. P. 7 (21).
[8] Robert Spencer, “DC Imam wants to establish an ‘Islamic
State of North America no later than 2050,’” Jihad Watch, November 9,
2007.
[9] Samantha Raphelson, “Muslim Americans Running For Office In Highest Numbers Since 2001,” NPR, July 18, 2018.
[10] Ibid.
[11] Abigail Hauslohner, “The blue Muslim wave: American Muslims
launch political campaigns, hope to deliver ‘sweet justice’ to Trump,”
Washington Post, April 15, 2018.
[12] Philip Marcelo and Jeff Karoub, “Record number of Muslim
Americans make bids for elected office,” Associated Press, July 16,
2018.
[13] Philip Marcelo and Jeff Karoub, “Muslims run for office in
record numbers but the path is uphill,” Seattle Times (Associated
Press), July 16, 2018.
[14] Philip Marcelo and Jeff Karoub, “Muslim candidates running
in record numbers face backlash,” Star-Tribune (Associated Press), July
16, 2018.
[15] Ibid.
[16] Ibid.
[17] Julie Roys, “Could Man Vying to Become First Muslim
Governor Be Part of ‘Stealth Jihad’?,” Christian Post, August 9, 2017.
[18] Alice Yin, “Michigan candidate criticized over anti-Muslim remarks,” Associated Press, April 26, 2018.
[19] Joel Pollack, “Democrat Ammar Campa-Najjar Deletes
Instagram Post Calling His Terrorist Grandfather a ‘Legend,’” Breitbart,
October 16, 2018.
[20] Ibid.
[21] Ibid.
[22] “Islamic Association For Palestine (IAP),” Discover The
Networks, n.d.
http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/printgroupProfile.asp?grpid=6215
[23] Ibid.
[24] Daniel Pipes and Sharon Chadha, “CAIR: Islamists Fooling the Establishment,” Middle East Quarterly, Spring 2006.
[25] Ibid.
[26] “Holy Land founders get life sentences,” JTA, May 28, 2009.
[27] “HLF’s Financial Support of CAIR Garners New Scrutiny,” The Investigative Project on Terrorism, October 12, 2007.
[28] Ilhan Omar, Twitter, October 15, 2017. https://twitter.com/ilhanmn/status/919736859584090113?lang=en
[29] Matt Margolis, “Ilhan Omar Laughs and Jokes Around as
Fellow Dem Discusses US Casualties in Iraq [VIDEO],” PJ Media, January
8, 2020.
[30] Danielle Wallace, “Omar sounds off after Minnesota county
bans refugee resettlement – aided by Trump executive order,” Fox News,
January 10, 2020.
[31] Emily Jones, “Muslim Congresswoman's District Reported to
Be 'Terrorist Recruitment Capital' of US,” CBN News, February 18, 2019.
[32] Wallace, “Omar sounds off.”
[33] Ilhan Omar, Twitter, January 8, 2020. https://twitter.com/IlhanMN/status/1215094293360234496
[34] Ilhan Omar, Twitter, January 6, 2020. https://twitter.com/IlhanMN/status/1214226976048910337
[35] Ilhan Omar, Twitter, January 8, 2020. https://twitter.com/IlhanMN/status/1215027645769027591
[36] Ilhan Omar, Twitter, January 6, 2020. https://twitter.com/IlhanMN/status/1214050618152833024
[37] Kristinn Taylor, “Newly Elected Muslim Congresswoman
Rashida Tlaib Wore Palestinian Flag at Primary Victory Celebration,”
Gateway Pundit, November 7, 2018.
[38] Valerie Richardson, “Pro-Hezbollah activist posts photos
with Rashida Tlaib at swearing-in ceremony,” Washington Times, January
14, 2019.
[39] “Tlaib deletes retweet blaming Israelis for death of boy
who apparently drowned,” Times of Israel, January 26, 2020.
[40] Ibid.
[41] Graham Piro, “Tlaib: Democrats Looking Into How to Arrest
Trump Officials,” Washington Free Beacon, October 3, 2019.
[42] Ibid.
[43] Ibid.
[44] Todd Starnes, “Muslim Lawmaker Says Prayer in Name of Jesus is Islamophobic,” ToddStarnes.com, March 26, 2019.
[45] Ibid.
[46] Ibid.
[47] Ibid.
