Democrats
Express Solidarity with Islamic Extremists in Wake of Election
by John Rossomando
IPT News
December 5, 2016
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politicians eager to stand in solidarity with the Muslim community and
speak against hate in the wake of the recent heated presidential election
threw their support behind some of its most extreme elements.
Virginia Attorney General Mark Herring, together with local Democratic
politicians from Northern Virginia, made this evident when they showed up
at a Veterans Day event at the Dar al-Hijrah Islamic Center in Falls
Church, Va.
Dar al-Hijrah stands in infamy as the mosque attended by two of the 9/11
hijackers and where the late Al-Qaida terrorist leader Anwar Awlaki served
as an imam. A 2002 U.S. Customs and Border Protection database report
obtained by the Investigative Project on Terrorism (IPT) described Dar al-Hijrah as a "front for Hamas
operatives in [the] U.S." A 2007 report said the "mosque has been under numerous
investigations for financing and [providing] aid and comfort to bad orgs
and members."
The Washington Post noted in 2011 that "almost no other mosque in the
country has been linked to so many cases of alleged terrorism."
Numerous convicted terrorists previously attended the mosque. These
include:
Dar al-Hijrah Leaders Praise Hamas and Jihad
A 2001 FBI memorandum described former Dar al-Hijrah imam
Mohammad al-Hanooti as "an active HAMAS supporter, purportedly holding
fund-raising activities, as well as supporting visitors to the United
States from Israel and Jordan, to speak on behalf of HAMAS."
On Veteran's Day, Herring and his fellow Democrats stood with Dar
al-Hijrah leaders Esam Omeish and Imam Shaker Elsayed, each of whom has
advocated violent jihad in the past..
In 2007, then-Virginia Gov. Tim Kaine withdrew Omeish's nomination to a
state immigration commission after the IPT released footage from a 2000 rally showing the
physician praising Palestinians for adopting the "jihad way" for
liberation.
Four years later, Omeish blasted Israel's targeted killing of a Hamas
founder, saying, "this is our tax money and it is our dollars that
killed our beloved brother Sheikh Ahmed Yassin." Elsayed, then imam of
Dar al-Hijrah, endorsed violent jihad in February 2013 during a talk at
T.C. Williams High School in Alexandria, Va.
"Muslim men when it is a price to pay, they are first in line ...
But they are last if anything is being distributed, unless it is arms for
jihad ... We are the first to rush and run to defend our community and
defend ourselves. The enemies of Allah are lining up; the question for us
is, 'Are we lining, or are we afraid because, because they may call us
terrorists,'" Elsayed said.
In a 2004 story about the Muslim Brotherhood in America, the Chicago
Tribune quoted Elsayed describing Brotherhood founder Hasan
al-Banna's ideals as "the closest reflection of how Islam should be in
this life." Al-Banna's vision that the Brotherhood still follows
ultimately calls for establishing a global Islamic state. Al-Banna described jihad as "slaying of the unbelievers,
and related connotations, such as beating them, plundering their wealth,
destroying their shrines, and smashing their idols."
Just last week, Omeish hailed the Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood in a Facebook post:
"We have not known of humane brotherliness and its people, (and we are
affiliated with all men whom Allah has created a propensity for love,
mercy, an upright disposition, good morals and honorable character) better
in ethics, of gentler parts, deeper in adherence to duty, nobler in morals
among all their sons, and everyone of their actions than the Muslim
Brotherhood."
Herring's office refused to comment about the appropriateness of
Virginia's highest law enforcement officer participating in the event.
Herring and his fellow Democrats ignored these past connections and
radical statements.
"I would like to thank Imam Johari for extending the invitation to
me to come by and visit. It's always good to visit with friends, and it is
good to be back and wonderful to see you," Herring said.
"You and the Muslim community are a vital part of our region, our
state, and our country. I don't have to tell you. This has been a tough and
difficult election season for everybody.
"I have stood with you before, and I will continue to stand with
you."
Other politicians who spoke at the event include Fairfax County
Supervisors Penny Gross and John Foust, Fairfax County School Board
Chairwoman Sandy Evans, State House delegates Jennifer Boysko and Alfonso
Lopez, and a representative of Congressman Don Beyer.
"Like so many of you, I am still stunned and reeling from the
events of this week and the politics of fear, intolerance, and hatred, but
I know we will go on, and I know we will fight fear with courage. We will
fight intolerance with kindness. We will fight divisiveness with banding
together in unity," Evans said.
Gross stressed the need to be a loyal opposition against President-elect
Donald Trump and "internalize the values we hold so dear in this
county."
A spokesperson for the Fairfax County Police told the Investigative
Project on Terrorism that no hate crimes against Muslims or mosques were
reported in Virginia's most populous county in the wake of the election.
Lopez, who drew criticism in 2014 for drafting a resolution in the
General Assembly celebrating Dar al-Hijrah's 30th anniversary,
vowed he would continue to stand with Dar al-Hijrah.
Zuhdi Jasser, president of the anti-Islamist American Islamic Forum
for Democracy, said the Democrats are "enabling groups with an
Islamist insurgency ideology."
Jasser's group approached Dar al-Hijrah last May seeking support for his
group's Muslim Reform Movement declaration affirming American
liberal values such as opposition to hate and bigotry, women's and minority
rights, and secular governance. The mosque's leadership read the
declaration, but declined to sign it, Jasser said.
He claimed that Johari Abdul Malik, an imam at Dar al-Hijrah, told
Jasser privately that he agrees with many of his views. That doesn't matter
as long as his mosque doesn't preach liberal values publicly and works to
radicalize and separate Muslims from the rest of America, Jasser said.
"The Democrats have no sense of the values of the Muslims they are
embracing who have values well to the right of anyone in America,"
Jasser said.
Mosque Peddled Radical Books
Books obtained by the Investigative Project on Terrorism at Dar
al-Hijrah in 2013 likewise stand at odds with the Democrats' stated values.
They express open hatred for Christians, Jews, and other non-Muslims.
Additionally, they express a supremacist view of Islam over other
religions.
They include In Pursuit of Allah's Pleasure, written under the
supervision of 1993 World Trade Center bombing mastermind Sheikh Omar Abdel
Rahman.
"The revelation of Surah at-Taubah (Surah No. 9) set out in detail
the Shari'ah's position on all these categories. He was instructed by Allah
to fight the People of the Book (the Christians and the Jews) until they
paid Jizyah (tribute) or embraced Islam. He was also instructed to fight
the disbelievers and hypocrites and be harsh on them," In Pursuit
of Allah's Pleasure says.
The Ideal Muslim Society, by Dr. Muhammad Ali Hashimi, talks
about diverting zakat funds, ordinarily used as charity to help the poor,
to fund jihad. "The most important of these (other uses for zakat) is
jihad for the sake of Allah because the Muslim ummah should focus on
conveying its message to the world," Hashimi writes.
Another book obtained by the IPT was written by top Muslim Brotherhood
cleric Sheikh Yusuf al-Qaradawi. "Palestine will ultimately be freed
and the Jews conquered," The Desired Muslim Generation says.
"The whole universe will be on their side; even trees and rocks will
somehow support them by saying: 'O Muslim O Abdullah [slave of Allâh (I)]
Here is a Jew hidden behind me come and kill him.'"
Qaradawi visited Dar al-Hijrah before the Clinton administration banned
him from entering the U.S. in 1999. He also notably
praised Hitler for killing Jews in the Holocaust and endorsed suicide
bombings.
Democrats need to take the rhetoric of their allies within the Muslim
community seriously, lest they muddle their message as being a party
opposed to hate and bigotry.
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