Zohran Mamdani and Samar Ali Raised by Fathers Who Want to Erase Israel
What is the effect of growing up in a stew of Jew-hatred and wanting to destroy the Jew’s ancestral homeland and only Jewish majority country in the world?
Zohran Mamdani
Zohran has his father to thank for radicalizing him against all things Israel and its Jews. Zohran’s father Mahmood Mamdani “has called for the “dismantlement” of the state of Israel, compared Israelis to Nazis and spread hatred of Israel and Zionism.” To no surprise he supported the pro-Hamas college encampments.
Learning at his father’s knee, mayor-elect Mamdani has publicly endorsed the BDS campaign against Israel, has accused Israel of committing a genocide against palestinians and unrepentently throws around the “globalize the infitada” threat, which is widely understood to be a call for violence against Jews.
As explained in the American Jewish Committee’s Translate Hate Glossary, the First Intifada (1987-early 1990s) and Second Intifada (2000-2005, aka, the Al-Aqsa Intifada), palestinian Jew-hatred included protests, demonstrations and suicide bombings in “civilian areas and passenger bus bombings.”
During the Second Intifada’s terror attacks, a palestinian blew himself up in a popular and crowded Sbarro pizzeria in downtown Jerusalem, killing 16 people including 7 children and a pregnant woman; 130 others were wounded.
During the Second Intifada, 1,137 Israeli civilians were killed and 5,676 were wounded.
Indeed, for Jews, the intifada reference is no figment of their imagination given the intentional post-October 7th violence against Jews in the U.S. and in other countries. It doesn’t take a rocket scientist to connect the campus pro-Hamas demonstrations to the post October 7th pro-Hamas marches around the country including in Nashville, to the intentional slaying of the young couple outside of the DC Capital Jewish Museum or the Denver molotov cocktail attack on a public gathering in support of the hostages then being held by Hamas.
Mamdani also tosses around the “free Palestine” catchphrase, short for “from the river to the sea Palestine will be free”, meaning there would be no Israel or Jews between the Jordan River and Mediterranean. It is the popular anti-Israel war cry of the BDS crowd which includes Mamdani and his circle of like-minded comrades. Not by coincidence it is also used by rabid Jew-haters like the Denver molotov cocktail thrower.
Samar Ali
Unlike Mamdani, Samar understands the political environment in which she operates, so instead of the direct Mamdani approach, she aligns with others who do the anti-Israel work.
Don’t underestimate the self-described “peacemaker”. In a poorly sourced and biased op-ed penned by Vanderbilt’s 2023 student body president, Samar defends Rep. Rashida Tlaib’s use of “from the river to the sea” because Tlaib didn’t “intend” for it to reflect her antisemitism. Samar’s round-about explanation and alleged sourcing of the phrase makes no mention of it’s adoption as the badge of the BDS movement whose expressed goal is the elimination of the State of Israel.
Tlaib was censured by Congress including support from twenty-two Democrats, for defending the slogan. The resolution formally condemned Tlaib for “calling for the destruction of the state of Israel”
Samar has served as Zulfat Suara’s, campaign treasurer during both of Suara’s Metro Council successful elections.
During Suara’s many years of leading the TN American Muslim Advisory Council (AMAC), the organization platformed some of the most vocal and poisonous Jew-haters including Linda Sarsour and Ash-Lee Henderson to “challenge Zionism”, the movement that helped to establish the State of Israel. Martin Luther King Jr., often cited by progressives as a symbol for social justice, understood that anti-Zionism is anti-Semitism. As he said, “When people criticize Zionists, they mean Jews. You are talking anti-Semitism.”
At the same time, local Tennessee Jew-hater Drost Kokoye served for years on Suara’s board who apparently didn’t get Kokoye to either tone down her anti-Jew rhetoric or resign from the board.
Years before connecting with Suara, in 2012, Samar traveled with Jimmy Carter to witness the election of the Muslim Brotherhood’s candidate Mohamed Morsi as Egypt’s new president. That’s the same Morsi who In a 2010, video declared, “[w]e must never forget, brothers, to nurse our children and our grandchildren on hatred for them: for Zionists, for Jews”.
Two years later in 2014, Carter again blamed Israel for the strife in the Middle East and demanded recognition of Hamas as a “legitimate political actor” despite its designation as a foreign terrorist organization in 1997, by the U.S. government.
After Samar’s trip with Carter, her father’s foundation began donating to the Carter Center.
Closer to the Ali home, is her father Subhi’s mentorship under Hisham Sharabi, the founder and chairman of what became the Jerusalem Fund (JF). Subhi served as vice-chairman taking over as chairman in 2005, shortly before Sharabi died.
In 2006, Samar served as the transatlantic liaison for one of the Jerusalem Fund’s projects. Her father Subhi continues to be listed as chairman of the Fund’s board.
Subhi’s mentor Sharabi was a board member of WISE(World and Islam Studies Enterprise) which was incorporated and led by Sami al-Arian who was subsequently sentenced in 2006 to prison and deported for conspiring to provide material support to the terror group Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ). According to the indictment, WISE funneled payments to the PIJ martyrs through the Islamic International Arab Bank (Arab Bank).
In 2003, while Subhi was serving as vice-chair of the board, the Jerusalem Fund hosted a conference titled, “Israel’s Policy of Apartheid and Ethnic Cleansing,” reflecting the Fund’s real purpose. Sharabi who described Hamas as “the true faida’i (self-sacriaice) resistance in Palestine since the outbreak of the Palestinian intifada, ”justified a Palestinian “armed struggle” if necessary, to end Israel’s presence in the West Bank and Gaza.
Under Samar father’s leadership, the Jerusalem Fund continued it’s anti-Israel agenda, celebrating its 40th anniversary featuring a keynote by then sitting Israeli-Arab Knesset member, Haneen Zoabi who compared Israel to Germany in the 1930s, claimed Israel has no right to exist as a Jewish state and suggested that Israeli-Arab members of the Knesset should work to undermine the State of Israel from within.
Speakers hosted by the Jerusalem Fund persist in spreading the false propaganda of Israel as an apartheid state.
Vocal antisemite Hatem Bazian, founder of the anti-israel groups Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) and American Muslims for Palestine (AMP), has been a invited speaker for the Jerusalem Fund (JF). A recent report from the Endowment for Middle East Truth, suggests stronger connections with Bazian, who, “is also a link between JF, AMP, and SJP, through his membership at Al-Shabaka: a global think tank for pro-Palestinian academics.”
According to Canary Mission, Bazian who is also a leader in the BDS campaign against Israel, he has “called for “intifada” in America, defended the Hamas terror group, expressed support for terrorists and fundraised for a Hamas-linked charity. He has politicized academic coursework, demonized Israel and Zionists, and showed support for pro-Hamas student encampments.”
Under Samar’s father’s leadership, the JF became even more vocal in pushing the BDS campaign against Israel. Yousef Munayyer, the Fund’s director and vocal BDS anti-Israel agitator, left in 2014, to take leadership of the U.S. Campaign for Palestinian Rights (USCPR). Tablet Magazine has exposed a troubling money relationship between USCPR and U.S. designated foreign terrorist organizations in the piece BDS Umbrella Group Linked to Palestinian Terrorist Organizations.
No surprise perhaps that Samar’s very close ally Metro Council member Zulfat Suara’s post-October 7th “ceasefire” resolution was “a template taken from the US Campaign for Palestinian Rights (USCPR) website”.
A closer look at Zulfat Suara’s alliances and activities related to Israel, Zionism and Jews, explains more perhaps about why Samar Ali has chosen to put herself in Suara’s camp, one that Samar has been raised to appreciate. Her mother immigrated to the U.S. from Syria and her father is a Palestinian who lived for a time in Ramallah, the city where Yasser Arafat, often referred to as the “father of modern terrorism” because of his “decades long involvement in terrorism“, established his Palestinian Liberation Organization (PLO) headquarters.
Arafat popularized the black and white keffiyeh now being paraded on college campuses by pro-Hamas idiots.
As stated in the report from the Endowment for Middle East Truth, Subhi Ali’s Jerusalem Fund “…is a prominent part of the Islamist network in the United States.”
It’s Time to End the Islamization of America
Today, when law enforcement finds a “manifesto” explaining the details of why and how an act of violence has occurred or will be occurring, it becomes a valuable, integral part of an investigation. These manifestos have been treasure troves of information, perhaps giving a deep look into the why the suspect committed the act of violence. Manifestos are so valuable, they have been the center of many lawsuits to prevent their contents from becoming public.
So why has the Muslim Brotherhoods “manifesto” been ignored and put on a back burner? Is it because there are no outward statements of violence? In the case of “An Explanatory Memorandum on the General Strategic Goal for the Group in North America” ( the Brotherhoods manifesto, first several pages are in Arabic, English follows)) there is no violence but rather a systematic, methodical outline of organizations and groups and how they will come from within to destroy America. Why would law enforcement ignore this valuable document? It even was admitted into evidence in the Holy Land Foundation Trial held in Dallas Texas in 2008.
Today, as we witness the outward aggressive progression of Muslims that have taken over many American cities, the question that begs to be answered is why the US Government is not doing anything about this. Except for Texas, where yesterday Gov Abbott proclaimed the Muslim Brotherhood and CAIR (Council on American Islamic Relations) to be terrorist organizations. CAIR, doing what it does best immediately issued a statement followed by threats of lawsuits against the state of Texas and its Gov Greg Abbott. A proclamation signed by Abbott claims that CAIR “is an Islamist organization that, according to the Federal Bureau of Investigations, was founded as a ‘front group’ for ‘Hamas and its support network’ in the United States.” It’s founder and current executive director Nihad Awad has admitted he is a supporter of Hamas.
I’m a supporter of the Hamas movement” Nihad Awad Executive Director of CAIR
Abbott has been the first Governor in the United States to take such action, but whether it has teeth or not will be seen in the future. Governors in every state should immediately follow Abbotts decision to do this, despite all the accusations of being Islamophobic. Whether or not the courts will reject this doesn’t matter… forcing CAIR to put money out to battle lawsuits would be detrimental to their finances for sure. It would also cause Muslim Brotherhood front groups to be exposed as to their intent to destroy America from within.
In order to be effective, politicians must first have a spine and not fear being called Islamophobes, bigots or haters. They must take into account the validity of their manifesto and understand the intentions of Muslims in todays America. We either will remain a democracy that embraces its Christian -Judeo principals or be turned into a land under sharia law.
I urge every American citizen that understands this legitimate threat to contact their state representatives and encourage them to take a stand against the Islamization of our cities. It no longer is something to be placed on a back burner, our country’s future is at stake.
Metro Councilman Jacob Kupin’s Favs – TN Rep. Aftyn Behn & Metro Council Member Zulfat Suara
Jacob Kupin wants everyone to know that he’s “a proud Jew”.
Nevertheless, Kupin has aligned himself with Aftyn Behn and Zulfat Suara, two far left purveyors of the grossly false “Israel genocide” lie.
Kupin’s fellow council member Zulfat Suara is a current board member of the TN American Muslim Advisory Council (AMAC), (having been its chair for over seven years). Recently, AMAC signed onto an August “free palestine” “stop the genocide” event held in Nashville, “to decry Israel’s genocide and forced starvation of the people of Gaza, all funded and enabled by the U.S. government.”
Eight months after the Hamas massacre, TN General Assembly House member Aftyn Behn visited the pro-Hamas encampment at Vanderbilt and then posted her solidarity with opposition to “state violence and calling for the end of genocide.”
Why has Kupin remained silent while his friends spread the “Israel genocide” lie?
Zulfat Suara
Suara is a second term, at-large Metro Council member who led the TN American Muslim Advisory Council (AMAC) since 2012, until she ran for public office in 2019. She remains active with the organization as a board member.
She wants to be Nashville’s next mayor.
Three weeks ago, Suara’s AMAC organization signed onto a “free palestine” “stop the genocide” event held at the beginning of August in Nashville, “to decry Israel’s genocide and forced starvation of the people of Gaza, all funded and enabled by the U.S. government.”
That Suara’s organization would endorse falsehoods about Israel should come as no surprise. Indeed, AMAC’s founding board member and current executive director Sabina Mohyuddin, questions “whether anti-Zionist views are antisemitic”.
According to Martin Luther King Jr., often cited by progressives as a symbol for social justice, anti-Zionism is anti-Semitism. As he said, “When people criticize Zionists, they mean Jews. You are talking anti-Semitism.”
The truth of King’s statement is on full display today as confirmed by the work of Liora Rez, Executive director of StopAntisemitism.org, that -“wherever anti-Zionism goes, anti-Semitism quickly follows.”
AMAC originally tried to conceal its antisemitism under the cover of anti-Zionism. In 2016, AMAC hosted an event featuring Linda Sarsour who is among the country’s leading proponents of the BDS movement who also refuses to say that Israel has a right to exist. BDS is known as the new antisemitism because it is a driver of hatred and violence against Jews.
Additionally, AMAC board members and Suara herself have cultivated close relationships with Jew-haters like Ilhan Omar and Rashida Tlaib.
In 2018, while Suara was chairman, AMAC sponsored a program challenging Zionism, with speakers that included their own vocal anti-Semite founder and board member, Drost Kokoye, and active BDS promoters, Ash-Lee Henderson and Amira Sakalla, former UT Knoxville Students for Justice in Palestine leader.
AMAC’s speaker Ash-Lee Henderson serving as co-director of the Highlander Center at the time, was also a member of the Movement 4 Black Lives (M4BL) policy leadership team that crafted the extreme anti-Israel platform labeling Israel an apartheid state and accusing Israel of committing genocide against the palestinian people. M4BL is the revolutionary umbrella group for black activist organizations including BLM.
The United States Commission on Civil Rights has stated, that “anti-Semitic bigotry is no less morally deplorable when camouflaged as anti-Israelism or anti-Zionism.”
Neither Suara’s support for AMAC’s anti-Israel advocacy, platforming speakers spreading lies about Israel, nor her refusal after the October 7th massacre to condemn Hamas, got in the way of Kupin co-sponsoring Suara’s (post October 7th) ceasefire resolution. No surprise then that Suara’s resolution did not condemn Hamas for the unprovoked slaughter, torture, mutilation and rape of Jewish civilians.
Author and social media influencer Alyssa Rosenheck exposed the fact that Suara’s resolution was “a template taken from the US Campaign for Palestinian Rights (USCPR) website, a group reported to have funneled tax-exempt donations to Palestinian organizations, including Hamas, Palestinian Islamic Jihad and other U.S.-designated terrorist groups.” “BDS Umbrella Group Linked to Palestinian Terrorist Organizations”
The Jew-hating USCPR’s focus is to turn Americans against Israel.
Despite Kupin’s support for Suara’s resolution, she was unable to defend its lopsided content that attempted to draw some imagined moral equivalency between the Hamas massacre, the taking of hostages and Israel’s defense of its citizens. She ultimately withdrew the resolution for consideration.
Fast forward one year and Suara’s AMAC is now spreading the Israel genocide” lie. A truer reflection of what Suara believes or whispers behind closed doors???
Then there’s Aftyn Behn – the wannabe Mamdani?
TN General Assembly Rep. Aftyn Behn a former progressive community organizer and self-described “pissed off social worker”, is running for the 7th District Congressional seat formerly held by Mark Green. Reportedly, Behn does not live in the 7th District.
Even though Behn doesn’t live in the 7th District, there is no rule requiring a candidate to live in the district they want to represent; Behn, however, will not be able to vote for herself.
Kupin is stumping for Behn’s Congressional run.
Last year when white supremacist groups like the Patriot Front marched through downtown Nashville, Behn launched her “Nashville Against Nazis” campaign to help educate others about the danger of “white nationalism.” Behn says that her background in organizing against white nationalism was part of her campaign that helped her get elected.
Behn ignored the overt and documented antisemitism of Patriot Front and instead, used her campaign as a political tool to attack Republicans and businesses that make donations to Republican candidates:
“Republican leadership in our state has failed to adequately respond to the rise of hate groups and white nationalist activities within our communities. This lack of decisive action and leadership has allowed hate groups to feel increasingly comfortable and bold in their activities, as evidenced by the recent Patriot Front rally in downtown Nashville. I will continue to demand accountability from Tennessee’s leadership.” https://aftynbehnfortn.substack.com/p/nashvilles-nazi-problem
It is common knowledge that the swastika was the branded symbol of the Nazis, the ones that planned and systematically killed six million Jews. It is the same swastika symbol that was held high by pro-Hamas demonstrators who marched through downtown Nashville three weeks after the October 7th Hamas massacre while also calling for the complete erasure of the Jewish state.
Neither the original Nazis nor the swastika carrying pro-Hamas demonstrators were part of Behn’s campaign. In fact, she never mentions Jews, focusing instead on state policies affecting transgender and immigrant rights.
Dickson County is in the 7th District which Behn wants to represent in Congress. The Dickson County Democrat Party has crowned Behn “the AOC of Tennessee”, presumably intended as a compliment. Whether the comparison includes ACO’s accusing Israel of committing genocide or failing to condemn the sexual violence committed by Hamas, is not known.
Regardless, in a recent live interview with CNN’s Audie Cornish, Behn chose to compare herself to the extreme anti-Zionist, pro-BDS, self-described socialist, Zohran Mamdani who could be New York City’s next mayor.
When Cornish raises the issue of establishment pushback against young (progressive/socialist) candidates like Mamdani who “has the buzz” right now, Behn says she sees his campaign progress and what he stands for, helps her in Tennessee.
Cornish then pivots to Mamdani in the context of the Democrat party’s overwhelming antipathy towards Israelis as compared to its overwhelming support for palestinians which she suggests also includes a generational component. Then comes the question that Behn side-steps and dismisses as a “culture war” …”a distraction from the real issue which are economic issues”:
“Cornish: Are there some issues like Israel where Mamdani becomes a problem, where just the position of young Democrats becomes a problem?”
“Behn: I think it’s a moment of reckoning for the Democratic party, and I think they need to look at where young voters appetites are, where their policy and their hunger is towards the political processes. And I think that they, you know, really need to lean into it. Young voters are the future.”
Perhaps if Behn had answered the Israel question honestly, she might have had to address her own failure to call out the antisemitism and anti-Israel falsehoods of her comrades on the progressive left.
On May 1, 2024, eight months after the Hamas massacre, Behn visited the pro-Hamas encampment at Vanderbilt, posting her solidarity with opposition to “state violence and calling for the end of genocide.”
Mamdani also supported the student encampments and the accusations of Israel as an apartheid state committing genocide in Gaza.
Behn appears to be an amalgam of both AOC and Mamdani.
Nevertheless, Jacob Kupin appears to be endorsing her candidacy for Congress. Shame on him. What a shame for Tennessee.
Drop Jacob a line and tell him what you think Jacob.Kupin@nashville.gov
Tennessee Home to Islamic Terrorist Organizations Part One
The buckle of the Bible Belt has been identified by the Dept of Homeland Security as one of many states infested by terrorist linked organizations. What’s even more disturbing is how former administrations have padded their pockets, allowing them not only to exist, but flourish.
According to a published report by the Middle East Forum, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) grants were awarded to terror-linked and extremist organizations. According to this study,” DHS authorized over $25 million between 2013 and 2023 to radical groups, many with documented links to foreign terrorist organizations. The funding was distributed through three DHS spending programs, with the majority originating from the Federal Emergency Management Administration (FEMA). Based on this review, DHS grant beneficiaries seemingly share a common ideological heritage with groups like the Taliban, the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS), Hamas, and the Islamic Republic of Iran.”
One of those groups was the Islamic Circle of North America (ICNA) Relief, whose director is Imam Rafiq Madhi of Knoxville TN. According to the report: “The Islamic Circle of North America (ICNA) Relief received the largest appropriations, totaling $10,346,248 in disaster relief funding despite its ties to Jamaat-e-Islami, a South Asian Islamist movement involved in a 1971 genocide against secular intellectuals in Bangladesh that killed up to 3 million people. Jamaat-e-Islami’s militant wing, Hizbul Mujahideen, is a U.S.-designated terrorist organization.”
In addition to that, the Islamic Circle of North America (ICNA) ICNA was named as one of the Muslim Brotherhood’s likeminded “organizations of our friends” in the 1991 Muslim Brotherhood Explanatory Memorandum plan for North America. ( several first pages are in Arabic, English follows)This document identified the likeminded “organizations of our friends” that shared the common goal of destroying America and turning it into a Muslim nation. These “friends” were identified by the Brotherhood as groups that could help teach Muslims “that their work in America is a kind of grand Jihad in eliminating and destroying the Western civilization from within and ‘sabotaging’ its miserable house by their hands … so that … God’s religion [Islam] is made victorious over all other religions.”
ICNA’s pursuit of establishing Islam as the “sole basis of global society and governance” was revealed with the publication of its 2010 Member’s Hand Book.
One way ICNA pursues this goal is through dawa in U.S. public schools, ie, proselytizing. ICNA reported that: “Reaching the youth has not always been an area explored by those in the Dawa field. Our representatives visit public schools sharing knowledge of Islam as an attempt to correct the misrepresentations often found in secular reading materials.” ICNA works closely with the Muslim American Society (MAS) that was recently confirmed to be Muslim Brotherhood.
Imam Rafiq Madhi oversees ICNA Relief in Knoxville, but also is affiliated with the Understanding Islam Dawa Foundation, an institution dedicated to planting the seed of Islam throughout non Muslim schools, and universities by way of groups such as the Muslim Student Association.
According to his profile on the ICNA website, Imam Rafiq Mahdi, born as William E. Henderson II in Knoxville, Tennessee, underwent a profound transformation from his Christian upbringing to Islam at the age of 23. Imam Mahdi’s thirst for knowledge led him to The Islamic University of Madinah, where he earned a diploma in Arabic Language and Islamic Studies. Under the guidance of Sheik Abu Bakr Al-Jazairy, he immersed himself in the intricacies of tafseer at the Masjid of The Prophet Muhammad in Madinah. Imam Mahdi co-founded The Muslim Community of Knoxville Inc., assuming leadership roles as its first Imam and vice president. He served as Imam in various communities, including Miami, FL, FT. Lauderdale, FL, and Knoxville, TN. Currently, Imam Mahdi serves as the Director of Disaster Relief Services and Outreach for ICNA Relief USA, aligning with his belief in the organization’s mission as a true expression of Islam’s core values.
This is just the tip of the iceberg as Tennessee is home to many groups and individuals with documented affiliations and support of Islamic Terror organizations. As we head into another election cycle one of the first questions we need to be asking candidates for all political offices is their awareness of this issue, their acknowledgement and extent of this threat, and what course of action they will take.
Stay tuned for part two!
Tennessee Muslims Claim Victim Status Amid Violence By Muslims
As we all know, Israel has been bombing Iranian assets to disable their ability to produce nuclear weapons. Several locations have been annihilated, including 3 nuclear sites, airports and research facilities.
Iran has in turn begun their bombing campaign against Israel by bombing civilian targets including apartment buildings, hospitals and neighborhoods. See the difference? One kills military resources, the other kills civilians.
Iran continues to chant “death to Israel and death to America”, as well as calling America the great Satan. The U.S Department of Homeland Security and the Trump administration have issued warnings there are Iranian sleeper cells in every state and to be aware. The former Biden administration had acknowledged many members of Islamic terrorist organizations had come across the border as well.
As law enforcement and government agencies have been warning Americans to be vigilant for possible terror activity as retaliation, many police departments have stepped up patrols for religious institutions such as synagogues, since Jews have been the intended targets, and Christians are close behind.
As not to be out done, Muslims have now again used their victimhood to claim they too are targets, and fear a rise in Islamophobia. Tennessee Islamic activist and director of the American Muslim Advisory Council (AMAC) Sabina Moyhuddin took her pleas to local Nashville TN News. “ Déjà vu for us when there’s wars and acts of aggression overseas, it always comes back at our community here”. Moyhuddin continued “ We all live in fear if anything else happens again our community will be targeted”.
Sabina Moyhuddin
WSMV anchor Holly Thompson reminded Tennesseans the “Members of the Muslim community are also concerned about a rise in Islamophobia similar to what happened after 9/11”. Her comments spoken as pictures of the Islamic Center of Nashville played in the background. Funny how that mosque is actually owned and operated by the Muslim Brotherhoods number one largest front group in the U.S, The Islamic Society of North America (ISNA) The Muslim Brotherhood is a designated terrorist organization in several Middle Eastern countries.
Moyhuddin doesn’t mention how Muslims are killing Muslims. In Tamra, a small Arab town about 25 km (16 miles) east of the port city of Haifa, an Iranian bomb exploded killing four members of a Muslim family. Israel has a 20% population of Arab Muslims.
Moyhuddin didn’t condemn Irans bombing of Israel, or of the Oct 7 massacre of innocent Israelis.
Moyhuddins counterpart at AMAC, Zulfat Suara, a Metro Nashville council member at large, who’s native county Nigeria is one of the top countries for Christian persecution. On June 15 2025, Muslims slaughtered Christians in the Benue State as they locked people up…and then doused them with gasoline and then set them ablaze. “Babies were burned.”
Benue State is approximately 97% Christian and has been the focus of brutal Christian killings. 149 miles away from Benue State Nigeria is Abuja,native home of Nashville TN Zulfat Suara. Suara who claims to be from royalty in Nigeria, is always one to quickly speak out and condemn acts of violence in Mosques around the world, or Muslims in general. Not a peep though regarding Christians.
So while Muslims in Tennessee are using the victim card to gain attention, Americans are keeping their heads on swivels, worried about the Ayatollahs call for sleeper cells to rise to jihad against the “great satan” also known as the United States.
The Threat In Our Backyard
The Islamic invasion is ramping up fast and furious in many cities, including the Dallas TX area. For years Muslims have promised they would come from within and eventually turn the world, including the west into Islamic states. Texas is ground zero, but lookout other states, you’re state isn’t safe.
Everyone is talking about Epic City in Plano TX, a future muslim enclave complete with a mosque, school, shopping and islamic center. Gov. Abbott has launched an investigation into the legality of this all muslim community, and hopefully it wont be allowed. However it doesnt matter, there currently are dozens of all Muslim neighborhoods surrounding the Plano/Irving mosque already.
In this video an unknown man on a motorcycle gives a tour of several “andalus” in the Plano area, showing street after street of muslim neighborhoods. The majority of the street names all are Islamic, where he declares “everyone is Muslim here”.
One of the men behind Epic City and other Muslim only communities is Yasir Qadhi who hails from Memphis TN. Qadhi is a strict believer in Sharia law. In this video clip, Qadhi cant help himself from chastising non believers for following and making laws
.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6b74d5aq3pM
But it gets better! Watch this video clip to see how Qadhi believes the next generation of non believers has joined their causes.
https://www.memri.org/tv/yasir-qadhi-islamic-conference-2024-americans-embracing-islam
This is serious stuff folks. Islamic intentional communities are a danger to our nation. Sharia law is completely antithetical to our Constitution and our culture. One purpose for thousands of Muslims living in the same communities is to increase and build power and influence. Power and influence leads to votes which turns into elected positions. Once elected into our system, they are able to effect change and the change is the implementation of sharia law. Usually implemented in small increments, so at first it isn’t noticeable. In future stages, sharia will be enforced in pockets of cities and towns.
One only has to look at what is occurring in Europe. The freedoms and rights of Europeans are being shredded, but so is our Constitution. Islam is not a religion, but a political ideology camouflaged as a religion. And in the United States that is all that matters. Our freedoms and rights are being used against us, and there is nothing we can do.
If you aren’t paying attention, it is time you do. This is a real threat. Muslims have told us for years what their goal is..why would we not believe them?
Rep. Tim Burchett Wants to Import More Arabs From Gaza to Tennessee
Responding to President Trump’s recent plan for the terrorist enclave called Gaza, Knoxville’s representative in Congress, Tim Burchett, says they should come to Tennessee:
“We already have Palestinians in America and some of them are the finest people that I know. They live in Knoxville, Tennessee, and they’re wonderful Americans if they want to assimilate and become Americans, but if they don’t, they wanna bring terrorism and hatred and things like that in this country. I don’t think we should, but we have a pretty good record with Palestinians at least in Tennessee, so I welcome them” https://www.msn.com/en-us/politics/government/rep-burchett-welcomes-idea-of-palestinians-relocating-to-us-tn/ar-AA1yChi5
Burchett then pivots to the problem of illegal immigration suggesting that a “litmus test” of who should be taken into the U.S. would apply to the Arabs (the proper non-political designation for so-called “palestinians”) because he says we already have the Taliban and Chinese spies in our country.
Presumably he is saying that bringing in more terrorist leaning anit-Jew and anti-America agitators is not a good idea.
Burchett has a short memory. This is the same Tim Burchett that as a Tennessee state senator, sponsored a 2007 bill, now law, that was supposed to penalize transporting illegal aliens into the state. The bill was amended to let certain NGOS (Catholic Charities???) defend bringing illegal aliens into the state if it was for so-called religious purposes like mission work. Of course the amendment made little sense since the goal of the bill was to punish transporting illegal aliens into the state.
In response to the religious defense amendment, House member Stacey Campfield, also from Knoxville, questioned whether this amendment would apply to an NGO bringing in aliens to commit jihad. Legitimate question but of course not taken seriously by the bill sponsors so the bill passed with the amendment.
Laughably Burchett believes there is a “litmus test” that can somehow discern which “palestinians” want to assimilate and become good Americans which just shows how little insight Burchett has to Islamist doctrine and thinking.
Ft. Hood’s 2009 jihadist U.S. Army Major Nidal Malkik Hasan was born and raised in the U.S. by “palestinian” parents who immigrated to the U.S. from the West Bank which is politically ruled by the Hamas supporting Palestinian Authority, aka, Fatah.
The 2015 Chattanooga jihadi Muhammad Youssef Abdulazeez, who gunned down five U.S. servicemen and wounded two others, while not born in the U.S., was raised in Tennessee by parents who were reported to be Palestinian-Jordanians and who “identified themselves as Palestinians”.
Daoud Abudiab, a “palestinian” who labels his birthplace as “occupied palestine” where his parents still reside, has had leadership roles with the illegal alien supporting TIRRC and Jew-hating American Muslim Advisory Council (AMAC).
Daoud Abudiab, was a co-founder of AMAC and its first chairman and is a fellow traveler of Israel haters. Trying hard to portray himself as an interfaither with the singular agenda of creating a positive impression of Muslims through his “Our Muslim Neighbor,” (a project of Religions for Peace USA, an organization itself tied to Muslim Brotherhood organizations), Abudiab launched his Faith and Culture Center in 2014. Then his Center joined Nashville’s leftist collective to strategize with the emerging local BLM chapter. That was the same year that BLM leaders traveled to “occupied palestine” and publicly announced their support for the Boycott, Divestment & Sanctions (BDS) campaign against Israel.
Coming out of the closet in his own way, Abudiab joined the Muslim Brotherhood organizations at the inaugural USCMO conference the same year the USCMO issued its “Washington Declaration”, an initiative intended to unite a globalized Islamist political force. The USCMO was founded by every major U.S.-based Jew-hating organization including CAIR, AMP (BDS leader American Muslims for Palestine), MAS – the Muslim American Society whose founder admitted that his organization was founded by members of the Muslim Brotherhood.
Following his attendance at the USCMO conference, Abudiab amplified his hatred of Israel by speaking at FOSNA’s (Friends of Sabeel North America) 2015 conference. FOSNA attacks Christian Zionism, promotes the BDS campaign against Israel, and has teamed up with Black 4 Palestine to bring black churches and clergy into their Israel and Jew hate efforts.
FOSNA remains on the Anti-Defamation League’s top ten list of anti-Israel organizations in the U.S.
In the course of pretending to be focused on a “struggle for a just peace” FOSNA predictably offered a panel discussion on BDS.
Omar Barghouti, co-founder of the BDS campaign made it clear in 2010, and again, more recently, that the goal of BDS is to eliminate Israel. He expressly rejects a two-state solution and says that a palestinian right of return is the way to end Israel as a Jewish state.
Tennessean Dana Swaies a pro-palestinian Hamas supporter as far back as 2014, is so venomous that it earned her a profile on Canary Mission, which “documents individuals and organizations that promote hatred of the USA, Israel and Jews on North American college campuses and beyond. Canary Mission investigates hatred across the entire political spectrum, including the far right, far left and anti-Israel activists.”
According to Canary Mission, “[a]s of August 2020, Swaies used the alias Bateekhahead and the screen name دانا on Twitter, Some of Swaies’ posts include:
According to Canary Mission, “As of March 2021, Swaies’s LinkedIn page said she was a Scheduling Coordinator at the Murfreesboro offices of Cumberland Pediatric Dentistry and Orthodontics, in Tennessee, since November 2020.”
To round out the known who’s who of Burchett’s “finest [palestinain] people” in Tennessee, there is former UT Knoxville student Amira Sakalla who as reported by Canary Mission, “called for an Intifada, demonized Israel and spread Israel hatred online. Sakalla was the founder of Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) at University of Tennessee (UTK) (SJP UTK), in 2012.”
And that is just a taste of Sakalla’s Jew-hatred. Among her many Jew-hating credentials was her 2015 -2016 stint as a staff intern at the anti-Israel organization Friends of Sabeel North America (FOSNA) which is the same time period that Daoud got connected to FOSNA. Hmmm.
For anyone who has paid attention to the TN American Muslim Advisory Council during Zulfat Suara’s leadership, it was no surprise that Sakalla and her Jew-hating comrade Ash-Lee Henderson, were featured speakers at AMAC’s 2018 attack Zionism event.
Someone in Tim Burchett’s district needs to share this information with him and strongly suggest that he reconsider expanding the community of “the finest people [he] knows”.
Jihad in the U.S. including Tennessee
The U.S. House Subcommittee on Counterrorism and Intelligence just released a snapshot report titled “Foreign Jihadist Networks and Homegrown Violent Extremism: a Persistent Terror Threat to America”. https://homeland.house.gov/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/Updated-Terror-Threat-Snapshot-copy.pdf
The 14-page report lists selected incidents of U.S.-based jihadi attacks, foreign terrorist networks and homegrown violent extremism. The report is a thin summary of the many jihadi-inspired attacks in the U.S. over the years. More on that at a later date.
The report’s contents should not surprise anyone who has been paying attention since the jihadis have been here for a loooooong time. They have been enabled to metastasize and enlarge their circles of influence through immigration, conversion and preaching a doctrine that hates the Judeo-Christian west with the end goal of eliminating it – subjugation through acts of terror, political sharia, providing material support to jihadi groups, killing individuals with vehicles and knives – whatever it takes.
It’s perfectly reasonable to assume that at least since the 2007 successful prosecution of leaders of the Holy Land Foundation and the exposing of the Muslim Brotherhood’s presence and plan (referred to as the 1991 Memorandum for North America, linked below), our government has known about these actors and their intentions.
It does not appear, however, that our government was either consistent or persistent in taking the Brotherhood and jihadi commitment to our destruction, seriously enough.
Originally named the “Occupied Land Fund”, the Holy Land Foundation was the largest Islamic charity in the U.S. which claimed it was raising funds to bring humanitarian relief to needy Palestinians in the “occupied territories” – a claim dispelled by the prosecution of the fund’s leaders.
The 2007 prosecution by the DOJ shut down the Foundation for funding Hamas and other Islamic terrorist organizations.
Several of the Islamist organizations operating in the U.S. and named in the Muslim Brotherhood’s 1991 plan titled An Explanatory Memorandum On the General Strategic Goal for the Group In North Americawere named as unindicted co-conspirators for providing material support in the form of raising money to support the U.S. designated terrorist organization Hamas.
In 2009, when ISNA (Islamic Society of North America), and several other of the big Islamist organizations still in full operation today, unsuccessfully challenged their unindicted co-conspirator status, the judge held that “[t]he government has produced ample evidence to establish the associations of CAIR, ISNA, NAIT, with NAIT, the Islamic Association for Palestine, and with Hamas.”
(As a side note, Metro Nashville Council member Zulfat Suara has been an active participant with ISNA which named her “Muslim policy advocate of the year”,speaking at their 2018 conference on a panel with her good friend and fellow Jew hater Rashida Tlaib.. That was the same year that during Suara’s leadership of AMAC, they featured virulent Jew-hating anti-Israel speakers to attack Zionism).
The point of this history lesson is to question why members of Congress like Rep. Mark Green who chairs the House Homeland Security Committee aren’t talking about the organizations operating in the U.S. which are affiliated with or otherwise connected to and supportive of Hamas?
Mark Green could perhaps start with a hearing featuring people like CAIR’s executive director Nihad Awad. The committee and viewing public could watch Awad’s 1994, unconditional statement of moving his support from one terrorist organization, the PLO, to Hamas:
I used to support the PLO, and I used to be the President of the General Union of Palestine Students which is part of the PLO here in the United States, but after I researched the situation inside Palestine and outside, I am in support of the Hamas movement more than the PLO.
Shortly after the October 7th massacre Awad amplified his support for terrorism and Hamas.
Better yet, why not indict and move forward with prosecutions of the organizations confirmed in the 2009 court ruling based on “ample evidence” to be connected to Hamas, a U.S. designated foreign terrorist organization? (Maybe Mark Green should meet with Steve Emerson ((investigative project on terrorism)) who has one of the most detailed catalogues of this type of documentation).
Why not peel back the layers of the Israel hating BDS group like the U.S. Campaign for Palestinian Rights which, sounding similar to the Holy Land Foundation scheme, “helps facilitate tax-exempt donations to a Palestinian coalition that includes Hamas, Palestinian Islamic Jihad, the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, and other groups the U.S. State Department designates as terror organizations.” https://www.tabletmag.com/sections/news/articles/bds-umbrella-group-linked-to-palestinian-terrorist-organizations
Will the day come when Congress tires of simply compiling “reports” to tell us that jihad in the U.S. is a continuing problem and instead, take action to dismantle at least some parts of its U.S. based jihadi infrastructure? After all, the report says it is a “persistent” threat. Maybe email Mark Green and ask him what comes after the 14-page snapshot report? https://markgreen.house.gov/email-me
Jihad Comes to America
They have been telling us for years. They believe we are the oppressors, and America is the “great Satan”. Their “holy” book, the Koran encourages death to non-believers.
The first pillar in Islam is the most unifying of all pillars among all Muslims across the world. “There is no god but allah, and Mohammed is the prophet”. Flags of several terrorist groups use that to display on their flags.
At 3 am Jan 1 2025 in the French Quarters of New Orleans, a Muslim man named Shamsu Din Jabbar, a convert to Islam with the black flag of ISIS attached to the rear of his truck drove intentionally into News Years revelers, killing 15 and injuring at least 25 more.
Not only did he use his vehicle to kill, he had explosives strapped to his neck, and used a handgun to shoot at police. At this time, several more IEDs were located throughout the French quarters. Do not believe for one second this was a “copycat” incident, or a lone wolf. He was not “radicalized” by ISIS, he was radicalized by Islam.
In the Koran there are over 109 verses that urge violence against non-believers (non-Muslims). Jews are referred to as people of the book. Below is a small number of suras regarding fighting against the infidels ( all non-believers) as well as from the Book of Bukhari( the Hadiths)
This isn’t to say every Muslim around the globe prescribes to this ideology, but professing the Shahada, and following Sharia law will tell you they follow the life of the prophet Muhammad, which is a Muslim that adheres to this ideology and believes the return of the global caliphate must occur. DO not be confused by the definition of Jihad. In Arabic it is “ a struggle”, in Islam it means “ holy war”.
While ISIS was knocked down years ago, it has re-emerged in several areas of the world, and continued where it left off with violence. In a leaked memo from Homeland security months ago, it was discovered members of ISIS have entered the U.S via the open southern border, but later was covered up by saying 400 migrants were brought in as human smugglers, not terrorists. This isn’t the first sign ISIS has infiltrated our country, in June of 2024 8 Tajikistan men were arrested in NY, Philadelphia and Los Angeles identified as potential ISIS affiliates.
Shamsud Din Jabbar attended the Masjid Bilal in Houston. Interestingly enough this mosque is operated by the Islamic Center of Greater Houston, whose own property is owned by the North American Islamic Trust (NAIT) which is the Muslim Brotherhood. The Muslim Brotherhood is a designated terrorist organization in many countries, however not in the United States…yet.
Today as Federal agents spoke over and over, they continued to insist “if you see something say something”. Really? The current administrations stance on Islamic terrorism is hardly friendly. Last month the Biden administration released a 67 page report titled “ The National Strategy on Countering Islamophobia and Anti-Arab hate”. 67 pages on how to make Muslims happy by appeasing them.