Why US Islamists are the enemy within
Dalia Al-Aqidi
Ibraheem Samirah and his supporters campaigning in the US state of Virginia. (Twitter photo)
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Several candidates in various US states have already begun their campaigns for the House of Representatives and the Senate in next year’s midterm elections.
Islamist “progressive” politicians such as Ilhan Omar and Rashida Tlaib, who adopted and spread the narrative of American “Islamophobia and racism,” seem to inspire others to use the victim card to win votes. And why not? It worked for them.
Rana Abdelhamid, a young Egyptian American woman who is running to unseat Carolyn Maloney, a fellow Democrat, in New York’s 12th congressional district, portrays herself in her campaign video as another victim of hatred in the US. “I was 16 years old when a man grabbed my hijab in a broad daylight and tried to rip it from my head. I felt powerless, abused, and scared,” she says.
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Apr. 25, 2021 2:42 PM
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