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
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.
42 year old Shamsud Din Jabbar
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.
News flash: Over 30,000 people clashed with Capitol Police and the Secret Service using smoke bombs in an attempt to crash through fencing. Sound familiar? Only this wasn’t the staged Jan 6th 2021, this was June 8th 2024.
This wasn’t an insurrection, this is a level of Islamic Jihad. And yet Americans continue to support and embrace pro-Palestinian rallies and protests. For years and years Islamists have claimed the West would be taken “from within”, and Sharia Law would be the law of the land. America and Europe will fall to the Islamic State ( or as some say, the Global Caliphate.)
America they are telling us their goal, why don’t you believe them? One only has to look at Britain to see how far Muslims have advanced, but one has to remove their blinders and rose colored glasses to do so. Islam is not a peaceful religion, Islam has vowed to be superior to all other religions at any and all costs.
Jihad is the means to achieve that. Muslims will tell you Jihads definition in Arabic is “to struggle”, In Islam jihad means holy war. The Quran specifically exempts the disabled and ‘weak’ from Jihad ( Sura 4:95, 9:91), which would make no sense if the word is being used within the context of spiritual struggle. Jihad is mentioned over 50 times in reference to the words of Muhammad (in sahih verses). Each carries a clear connotation to holy war.
In one of the most detailed, revealing manifestos ever seen by US law enforcement and intelligence experts is the Muslim Brotherhoods manifesto titled “An Explanatory Memorandum on the General Strategic Goal for the Group in North America”, written in 1991. This document was found in a Hamas members basement during a raid by the FBI. It later was used as evidence to help indict several Hamas members and co-conspirators for funding Hamas, a designated Foreign Terrorist Organization on the US State Depts Terror watch list. Their intentions in this document are very clear:
As things are to go, the first stage of Islamic conquest has already taken place with the successful attempts to portray Muslims as peaceful and victims of racism, (Even though Islam is not a race) calls to criminalize “Islamophobia” as a hate crime, threats of legal actions against those “discriminating” against Muslims, and interfaith events to indoctrinate non-Muslims. Now, the Biden administration has published “The U.S National Strategy to Counter Islamophobia and Anti-Arab Hate”.
Muslims are masters at being victims, and America loves victims. We have embraced and accepted their agenda all under the guise of religion, despite the exposure of their goals. As the numbers of Muslims increase, so does the threat. Islam is a united front, what occurs “over there” will also occur here, in a matter of time.
In a recent article by Robert Spencer published on PJ Media, a disturbing trend has in fact taken place in many cities where the mayors are Muslims. Why does that matter? Effecting change can only be done by changing policies, rules and laws and politicians are the ones that are able to do that. Dismissing traditional policies to implement Sharia law has already begun, and will continue as numbers of Muslims grow.
As we saw over the last year with Muslims openly declaring war on America with the burning of our flag, and the desecration of historical monuments, it no longer is just about the war in Gaza..it is about their disdain for America and all we stand for.
Only in America with the current political and social climate could a terrorist organization take to the streets without any consequences. In case you are one of many still asleep, Hamas is a designated foreign terrorist group here in the United States. Here is the link :
Hamas is no different than Al-Qaida, Boko Haram or ISIS. Yet we have allowed them to flourish here in America. We have given them platforms across the country to spread their ideology also known as Islam. We have given them permission to enter our colleges and universities under the guise of “religious” freedom. We have embraced them as they portray themselves as constant victims. We have bowed to them as they tell you how pious they are during “interfaith” gatherings. And now we are standing back and watching them destroy our history and our country. For those that remain ignorant or gullible, Islam is the foundation to how and why these groups operate.
Yasir Qadhi, a dean at the Islamic Seminary of America and resident scholar at the East Plano Islamic Center in Plano TX clearly states in this talk how Muslims having multiple children (5.6 or 7) is the secret weapon to advancing the Muslim world.
The big question is why has this happened in Tennessee and why hasn’t it been questioned?
Have Islamists like those who founded and run the TN American Muslim Advisory Council (AMAC), reduced Tennesseans to useful idiots? Have they done such a good job of perverting and subverting our rights to serve their doctrinal hatred of Jews as to make questioning their Jew-hatred verrboten?Has their continual whining about imagined and alleged discrimination made it off limits to “offend” them in some way?
An early vocal and venomous Jew-hater who started as a high-schooler and continued in college is former MTSU student and Muslim Students Association organizer Dana Swaies whose antisemite profile is posted on Canary Mission website which exposes haters of the U.S., Israel, and Jews. https://canarymission.org/individual/Dana_Swaies. According to this entry, 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. Makes you wonder what she says to her co-workers.
2016 is the same year when under Zulfat Suara’s leadership of the AMAC, they brought zealous Jew-hater Linda Sarsour to be a featured speaker at an AMAC event and provide a platform for her to spread her lies about Israel and suggest ways for others to advocate against the sole Jewish state in the world. https://klp.wnv.mybluehost.me/amac-normalizes-anti-semitism-in-tennessee/
With the help of AMAC and student groups like the Muslim Students Association (MSA) and the Middle Eastern Studies Association (MESA), Sarsour has been enabled to foul and pollute college campuses in Tennessee. In July 2023, because of its extreme antisemitism and advocacy for the Boycott, Divestment & Sanctions campaign against Israel, MESA got booted from its headquarters located at George Washington University.
Sarsour’s special brand of Jew hatred has been wrapped in the intesectionality/allyship, a socialist theory of connecting groups in a common struggle with the “oppressed” against the “oppressor”. Not surprisingly, the “oppressors” are stereotyped as privileged white supremacists.
Intersectionality, allyship and the other garbage that those like Sarsour and her sycophants like former AMAC board member and anti-Jew agitator, Drost Kokoye dish out, deliberately weaponize these theories against Jews even if they aren’t white or privileged.
It’s notable that Kokoye, a Kurdish refugee who came to live in Nashville at the largesse of the U.S. and was a long-standing board member of AMAC, was one of the earliest anti-Israel provocateurs, standing on Nashville streets with her sign parading the Israel genocide lie and taking her bullhorn to rally for the destruction of Israel. She also has an extensive write-up on the Canary Mission website https://canarymission.org/individual/Drost_Kokoye
Amira Sakalla, another speaker featured in AMAC’s 2018 anti-Zionism program, was among UT Knoxville’s earliest anti-Israel campus agitators. Her dishonest rhetoric and hateful actions earned her a write-up on Canary Mission. https://canarymission.org/individual/Amira_Sakalla
Joining Sakalla in AMAC’s 2018 Jew-hate fest event, was super Jew-hater Ash-Lee Henderson whose greatest wish to destroy the U.S. and Israel is detailed in the Dailyrollcall documented eight part series.
Zulfat Suara, was a co-founder and leader of AMAC since 2012. Suara is now a Metro Nashville council member who stepped down as public leader of AMAC when she ran for office. But her commitment to the same anti-Jew agenda has not stopped so she remains a named board member of the organization.
Linda Sarsour & Suara
As a Metro Council member Suara has steadfastly refused, even after the October 7th massacre, to condemn Hamas. To drive this point home, Suara used templated language from the U.S. Campaign for Palestinian Rights (USCPR), and sponsored a resolution calling for a ceasefire in the war started by Hamas.
The Jew-hating USCPR’s focus is to turn Americans against Israel. The USCPR has troubling ties to Tennessee.
Just as Suara has refused to condemn Hamas, neither does her resolution, despite the fact that Hamas has vowed to repeat October 7th over and over again until all Jews are dead and Israel destroyed. Instead, Suara validates Hamas by citing it’s U.S. counterpart CAIR’s allegations of Islamophobia. FBI statistics consistently show hate crimes against Jews dwarf anti-Muslim activity.
Author and social media influencer Alyssa Rosenheck exposed the fact that Suara’s resolution was “a template taken from the USCPR website, a group funneling 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.” StandWithUs.com also has a great fact sheet exposing USCPR.
It has been known and documented for decades since the Holy Land Foundation prosecution, that the Muslim Brotherhood tentacles are wrapped in and around Islamist organizations like CAIR and the Muslim Student Association (MSA).
But instead many have embraced, supported and accepted their warnings under the guise of religion.
Now as we watch the UK fall to its knees, we must either acknowledge their deceit or prepare to accept their way of life. What will it be America?
Undoubtedly, we will be labeled Islamophobes, haters and bigots but just like the democrats who are now showing us their communist colors, Islamists are no longer hiding their destructive agenda.
As we have witnessed terrorist organizations publicly attack American icons and desecrate our flag, we stand silent. Why?
Now, let me introduce you to another organization coming out of the dark here in the United States. Cage International. Cage is an anti Jewish, anti- American Islamist advocacy group that appears as a human rights group on behalf of known Al Qaida and convicted terrorists. Once again, many will see this as helping Muslims who have been unfairly treated in America. What needs to be known is Cage wants to see dangerous terrorists released from prisons. One such person is Al- Qaida operative Aafia Siddiqui, a Pakistani scientist convicted and sentenced for attempting to kill US soldiers in Afghanistan. Siddiqui was sentenced to 86 years, which CAGE now claims the nine allegations she was convicted of were “lies and inconsistencies”.
The biggest voice for Cage here in the United States is Omar Sulieman, founder and president of the Yaqeen Institute in Irving TX and also an adjunct professor at the Southern Methodist University. Sulieman is a strong supporter of the BDS movement, as well as CAIR (Council on American Islamic Relations AKA Hamas) and AMP (American Muslims for Palestine). He believes the war on terror equates with a war on Muslims, a popular belief by Muslims in the United States, as they continually portray themselves as victims.
Because Suliman is considered by many as a pious Islamic preacher, his relationships with Christian preachers will be used to further this cause. What religious leaders here in the United States need to understand is embracing those advocating for the release of convicted terrorists that have killed Americans, or attempted to, were tried and convicted by our criminal justice system and must not be released under the false guise of “Muslim persecution”, or Islamophobia.
Leaders of Cage International promote jihadi and terrorist ideology, using the victim card as the chance to see violent Islamic terrorists in the UK and the US be released from prisons under humanitarian and social justice rights.
It is only a matter of time, all the Islamic organizations here within the United States ban together and declare the call to jihad. It’s happening in the UK, and it is not far behind for us.
News flash: Over 30,000 people clash with Capitol Police and the Secret Service using smoke bombs in an attempt to crash through fencing. Sound familiar? Only this wasn’t the staged Jan 6th 2021, this was June 8th 2024.
This wasn’t an insurrection, this is a level of Islamic Jihad. And yet Americans continue to support and embrace pro-Palestinian rallies and protests. For years and years Islamists have claimed the West would be taken “from within”, and Sharia Law would be the law of the land. America and Europe will fall to the Islamic State ( or as some say, the Global Caliphate.)
America they are telling us their goal, why don’t you believe them? One only has to look at Britain to see how far Muslims have advanced, but one has to remove their blinders and rose colored glasses to do so. Islam is not a peaceful religion, Islam has vowed to be superior to all other religions at any and all costs.
Jihad is the means to achieve that. Muslims will tell you Jihads definition in Arabic is “to struggle”, In Islam jihad means holy war. The Quran specifically exempts the disabled and ‘weak’ from Jihad ( Sura 4:95, 9:91), which would make no sense if the word is being used within the context of spiritual struggle. Jihad is mentioned over 50 times in reference to the words of Muhammad (in sahih verses). Each carries a clear connotation to holy war.
In one of the most detailed, revealing manifestos ever seen by US law enforcement and intelligence experts is the Muslim Brotherhoods manifesto titled “An Explanatory Memorandum on the General Strategic Goal for the Group in North America”, written in 1991. This document was found in a Hamas members basement during a raid by the FBI. It later was used as evidence to help indict several Hamas members and co-conspirators for funding Hamas, a designated Foreign Terrorist Organization on the US State Depts Terror watch list. Their intentions in this document are very clear:
As things are to go, the first stage of Islamic conquest has already taken place with the successful attempts to portray Muslims as peaceful and victims of racism, (Even though Islam is not a race) calls to criminalize “Islamophobia” as a hate crime, threats of legal actions against those “discriminating” against Muslims, and interfaith events to indoctrinate non-Muslims.
Muslims are masters at being victims, and America loves victims. We have embraced and accepted their agenda all under the guise of religion, despite the exposure of their goals. As the numbers of Muslims increase, so does the threat. Islam is a united front, what occurs “over there” will also occur here, in a matter of time.
In a recent article by Robert Spencer published on PJ Media, a disturbing trend has in fact taken place in many cities where the mayors are Muslims. Why does that matter? Effecting change can only be done by changing policies, rules and laws and politicians are the ones that are able to do that. Dismissing traditional policies to implement Sharia law has already begun, and will continue as numbers of Muslims grow.
As we saw this past week with Muslims openly declaring war on America with the burning of our flag, and the desecration of historical monuments, it no longer is just about the war in Gaza..it is about their disdain for America and all we stand for.
Only in America with the current political and social climate could a terrorist organization take to the streets without any consequences. In case you are one of many still asleep, Hamas is a designated foreign terrorist group here in the United States. Here is the link :
Hamas is no different than Al-Qaida, Boko Haram or ISIS. Yet we have allowed them to flourish here in America. We have given them platforms across the country to spread their ideology also known as Islam. We have given them permission to enter our colleges and universities under the guise of “religious” freedom. We have embraced them as they portray themselves as constant victims. We have bowed to them as they tell you how pious they are during “interfaith” gatherings. And now we are standing back and watching them destroy our history and our country. For those that remain ignorant or gullible, Islam is the foundation to how and why these groups operate. It is beyond time to believe what the Islamists are telling us.
It’s the heartless and barbaric history of Muhammad and Islam. It’s also the same present-day contemporary Islam. It’s doctrine and practice that hasn’t changed or abated in 1400+ years.
October 7th? Islamic Jihad. In more than one place the Koran describes Jews as “apes and swines”, a slur that supposedly is meant to refer to the ancient Jews who refused to convert. However, it is still used today by imams, by Jew-hating writers, on Palestinian Authority TV and most recently, in a Fatah broadcasted message two days after the terrorist attack on October 7th – “‘[s]trike the sons of apes of pigs… slaughter everyone who is Israeli’”
Add to this that in the Hadith, the examples and sayings of Muhammad, who Allah says all Muslims must emulate, Islamists learn that “[t]he Hour [end of time when Islam will rule the world] will not be established until you fight with the Jews, and the stone behind which a Jew will be hiding will say”.O Muslim! There is a Jew hiding behind me, so kill him”.
The same hadith is still in vogue, included in a circular distributed by the Palestinian Authority Ministry of Religious Affairs two weeks after the October 7th massacre, to be preached in mosques. And to no surprise, the directive to kill Jews is included in Article 7 of the Hamas 1988 founding document, also referred to as the Hamas Covenant.
Five years after the founding of Hamas, Nihad Awad and Omar Ahmad met in Philadelphia with members of Hamas and then organized CAIR which in 1997, was designated as a foreign terrorist organization. Awad, who in 2014, publicly switched his support from the PLO terrorist group to supporting Hamas, has also voiced his support for the October 7th massacre of Israelis.
Nihad Awad (center in black jacket) at Murfreesboro mosque with imam Bahloul
“‘A 2023 joint publication by United Nations Watch and the Institute for Monitoring Peace and Cultural Tolerance in School Education (IMPACT-se) reported that ‘teachers and schools at the UN agency that runs education and social services for Palestinians regularly call for the murder of Jews, and create teaching materials that glorify terrorism, encourage martyrdom, demonize Israelis, and incite anti-Semitism.’”
9/11? Islamic Jihad. No explanation needed.
Islamic murder and persecution of Christians and Jews should come as no surprise; the hatred is embedded in Islamic doctrine taught to children – “O believers! Take neither Jews nor Christians as guardians—they are guardians of each other. Whoever does so will be counted as one of them. Surely Allah does not guide the wrongdoing people.”
In 2017, a story in the TN Star ran a story that included a promotional video for Anoor Academy, an Islamic school in Knoxville. At 1:05 of the video there is a row of textbooks titled What Islam Is All About. The TN Star piece includes excerpts from the textbook that denigrate Christians and Jews.
52,000 Christians slaughteredin Benue and other Nigerian states? Islamic Jihad.
In February 2024, Nigerian Christian clergy correctly labeled the “hack[ing] a person to death with a machete” and “…blasting unarmed villagers in the back with an AK-47 as they seek to escape a terrorist raid” – “[i]t is Islamic jihad.”
Does Nigerian Muslim Council Member Zulfat Suara have anything to say about the jihad of her fellow countrymen?
Apparently not. Nigerian born Suara did, however, find time in 2020, to organize a rally in downtown Nashville to protest “political corruption and police brutality” in Nigeria even though Nigeria’s jihadi Boko Haram was slaughtering civilians that same year in a Christmas Eve raid on a Christian village, killing people, burning down a church and abducting a priest.
Suara is now serving her second at-large council term. First elected in 2019, she was heralded as the first Nigerian to be elected to any public office in the U.S. and the first Muslim to be elected to a public office in Tennessee.
Prior to serving on the Council, she led the TN American Muslim Advisory Council (AMAC) since 2012. While she resigned her leadership role immediately prior to running for the Council, she remains on the AMAC board.
Under her leadership, the AMAC dove head-first into programming with leading anti-Israel agitators including Linda Sarsour, Ash-Lee Henderson and fellow AMAC member Drost Kokoye, helping to normalize antisemitism by pretending that attacking Zionism is simply about criticizing the Israeli government. It is well understood that challenging Zionism is challenging Israel’s right to exist.
As expected, given AMAC’s anti-Zionist agenda, Suara’s AMAC promoted the early pro-Hamas rallies organized by the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) held in Nashville following the October 7th attack on Israeli civilians. (Suara served as one of Bernie Sanders’ state campaign chairs. It should also be noted that at this time Suara had already connected with Bernie’s antisemite surrogate Linda Sarsour and Jew-hating Rashda Tlaib who along with super Jew-hater Ilhan Omar were all supporting Bernie).
One of the earliest DSA organized rallies included signs with swastikas and the “river to the sea” chanting which calls for the elimination of Jews and the Jewish homelandWhile Israelis were still reeling from the October 7th unprovoked jihadi barbarism of mutilating women, cutting a fetus from a mother still alive and then killing the baby in front of her, decapitating and shooting people of all ages including children, all documented with photographs and video from the cameras of captured Hamas and civilian Palestinians who joined the massacre, AMAC was making sure that Jew haters in Nashville were informed about their protest rights.
WARNING – videos 2 & 3 contain extremely upsetting and graphic information
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In keeping with its self-described victim status upon which AMAC was founded, they quickly advised schools to watch out for bullying or any form of discrimination against Muslim and Arab students.
According to the TN Star, Suara has refused to condemn Hamas and apparently has made no mention of the hostages including baby Kfir.
It doesn’t appear that Suara who is involved in a slew of WOMEN identified groups including the Tennessee Women’s March, a leadership role in the National Women’s Political Caucus and is an inductee to the Women’s Hall of Fame, has spoken out about the sexual violence and extreme brutality against women during the October 7th massacre. The virtually indescribable savagery of the terrorists has been well documented.
Barely a month after the slaughter in Israel, AMAC was promoting a “ceasefire now peace rally” to tell Congress to “stop funding and supporting genocide” and another rally encouraging the wearing of the keffiyah, a symbol of Jew hatred which Palestinian cowards use to cover their faces while they attack Jews overseas and here in the U.S.
More recently, Suara was the prime Metro Council sponsor of a ceasefire resolution promoted by the U.S. Campaign for Palestinian Rights (USCPR), an organization whose focus is to turn Americans against Israel. The USCPR also has troubling ties to Tennessee.
Suara’s ceasefire resolution
Suara’s ceasefire resolution includes a healthy dose of Hamas-inspired propaganda including the reference to and use of the Gaza Health Ministry (GHM) alleged death toll of women and children even though the numbers have come under scrutiny. Even the U.S. House through a bipartisan amendment is trying to block the State Department from using the Gaza Health Ministry data. The amendment passed with 62 Democrats voting yes. No action yet in the U.S. Senate.
Suara’s resolution repeatedly attempts to draw a nation state equivalency between Israel and “Palestine”. While Israel has been a State recognized by the U.S. government since 1948, there has never been a “State of Palestine” nor does one exit in present day. The region referred to as Palestine preceding the declaration of the State of Israel was a British run mandate which was established following World War I.
Just as Suara has refused to condemn Hamas, neither does her resolution, despite the fact that Hamas has vowed to repeat October 7th over and over again until all Jews are dead and Israel destroyed. Instead, Suara validates Hamas by citing it’s U.S. counterpart CAIR’s allegations of Islamophobia. FBI statistics consistently show hate crimes against Jews dwarf anti-Muslim activity.
Suara’s resolution fails to mention that Hamas is a U.S. designated foreign terrorist organization and that video has documented Arab civilians killing alongside the uniform-clad Hamas terrorists.
Anti-Israel bias drips from the resolution characterizing Israel as “retaliat[ing] for these attacks by bombing Gaza” when in fact, Israel has been clear from the start that the goal was to rescue the hostages and eliminate the Hamas terrorist entity – not, to take revenge on the civilians in Gaza even though polls show that sadly, Hamas has wide support from the people.
And if the bias and lack of credibility of Suara’s resolution wasn’t enough to have it tossed, it’s direct tie to the anti-Zionist, Jew-hating U.S. Campaign for Palestinian Rights (USCPR) may have caused it to be withdrawn. The USCPR was formerly known as the U.S. Campaign to End the Occupation.
Author and social media influencer Alyssa Rosenheck exposed the fact that Suara’s resolution was “a template taken from the USCPR website, a group funneling tax-exempt donations to Palestinian organizations, including Hamas, Palestinian Islamic Jihad and other U.S.-designated terrorist groups.
The USCPR promotes a significant part of its anti-Israel agenda in the municipal arena including action involving the local governing body. Hamas’ October 7th attack on Israel has been factually perverted by the USCPR into a “stop the genocide ceasefire now” campaign complete with a toolkit to run the false narrative campaign through city council resolutions.
Just like the one that Suara sponsored.
USCPR’s connections to Tennessee
In 2014, former Jerusalem Fund (JF) director Yousef Munayyer left to run the USCPR.
Samar Ali’s father Subhi Ali has served on the JF board since 2000, and has led as the JF chairman since 2005. Samar serves as Suara’s campaign treasurer.
From its founding the JF was opposed to the creation of the State of Israel. As early as 2003, the JF was labeling Israel an apartheid state guilty of ethnic cleansing (of Palestinians) spreading one of the many lies told by political propagandists seeking to delegitimize and target the Jewish homeland.
Munayyer was also very public in his anti-Israel pro-BDS (boycott, divestment and sanctions) advocacy.
Subhi Ali helped intensify the attacks on Israel with help from Omar Barghouti, co-founder of the BDS movement and with speakers like “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.”
The current JF director Ahmad Abuznaid has elevated and expanded the propagandist attack on Israel through his connections with the Movement 4 Black Lives (M4BL) and Black Lives Matter.Abuznaid, co-founder of a group called “Dream Defenders” has been running trips for BLMers to help them solidify their extreme antisemitism. He also helped draft the M4BL anti-Israel policy platform with Suara’s Tennessee-bred anti-Israel basher Ash-Lee Henderson.
Ash-Lee Henderson & Abuznaid
The M4BL is responsible for a policy platform which asserts that Israel is an apartheid state, is “complicit in the genocide taking place against the Palestinian people”, that homes of Palestinians and land “are routinely bulldozed to make way for illegal Israeli settlements”, and that “Israeli soldiers also regularly arrest and detain Palestinians as young as 4 years old without due process. Everyday, Palestinians are forced to walk through military checkpoints along the US funded apartheid wall.”
The carry-over from Abuznaid’s learn-to-hate-the-Jew trips, is to spread this hostility into U.S. churches. He has been somewhat successful pushing the Marxist intersectional Black-Palestinian Solidarity agenda with the more left-leaning Methodists and their Federation for Social Action. (BTW, when you open this link you will see TN Rep. Justin Jones’ buddy William Barber all in with this stuff).
Zulfat’s campaign treasurer Samar Ali, daughter of Jerusalem Fund chairman says she’s worried about Christians in Gaza
Before Suara’s ceasefire resolution was withdrawn, she attempted to defend it on a public Metro Council discussion board. During the discussion, Suara wrote – “An interesting add was from my friend Samar who suggested that the resolution should mention Palestinian Christians whose voices are sometimes forgotten in this conflict.”
If Suara wants to credibly bring up Palestinian Christians then she must acknowledge the work of Rev. Naim Ateek, Sabeel, and Friends of Sabeel North America (FOSNA).
Sabeel Ecumenical Liberation Theology Center (Sabeel), founded by Ateek in 1990, is a Palestinian Christian organization based in Jerusalem which opposes Christian Zionism, pushes anti-Israel advocacy in churches and promotes the BDS movement among other anti-Israel campaigns.
Ateek helped formulate “Palestinian liberation theology” and described Hamas as “an Islamic liberation theology movement.” In other words, Palestinian victims must be liberated from the Israeli oppressor under which they are forced to exist. No different than Suara, Sabeel does not waste its time on the persecution of Christians living in Muslim majority countries, Muslim radicalism, or the terrorism, suicide-bombings and rocket attacks perpetrated by Hamas against Jewish civilians.
FOSNA carries Sable’s anti-Israel work into U.S. churches to turn them against Israel. Currently, the extreme Jew-hating FOSNA is spreading disinformation regarding the atrocities of the October 7th. Denying the deep doctrinal roots of Islamic jihad, FOSNA believes that if Hamas were just welcomed into the political process, then Hamas would “moderate” its position and peace would be achieved. In 2013, FOSNA was added to the Anti-Defamation League’s top ten list of anti-Israel organizations in the U.S.
To no surprise, Suara’s promoted anti-Israel event speaker Ash-Lee Henderson has also been a speaker for FOSNA.
Rather than the biased and false narrative resolution sponsored by Suara, the Metro Nashville Council would benefit from education acknowledging that Islamic jihad is the source of death and persecution for both Jews and Christians. Nashville leaders of good conscience should take the next step and publicly acknowledge that this current day doctrine is responsible for October 7th and the continuing massacre of African Christians.
The University of Tennessee at Chattanooga (UTC) has joined the ranks of institutions that are filled with activists instead of students’ worthy of taxpayer funding. In particular the Student Government Association (SGA) members that are embracing the ideology of the Muslim Student Organization (MSA). While the students may not view this group as the dangerous, terror linked group it is, perhaps the parents and taxpayers will.
Following what seems to be an antisemitic trend on college campuses, many members of the SGA have voted for a resolution that will support two Gazan students financially due to the situation in their home country, and how unfair it is that all colleges in Gaza have been destroyed, yet the many in Israel have not.
Another disturbing aspect of this resolution is that is comes from members of the Muslim Student Association, the Muslim Brotherhoods second largest front group in the United States. The Muslim Brotherhood has been designated a terrorist organization in countries across the Middle East.
In 2008 in Dallas Texas evidence was presented to a court during a trial against the Holy Land Foundation, which was funding Hamas. That evidence included a manifesto titled “An Explanatory Memorandum on the General Strategic Goal for the Group in North America”. The Muslim Student Association is listed as the number 2 group that is “A list of our organizations and the organizations of our friends [Imagine if t they all march according to one plan!!!]”
The MSA uses this mission statement “The Muslim Students Association at UTC is a faith-based organization that seeks to unite our community and create an atmosphere of knowledge and understanding through the use of education”.
The MSA was founded in 1963 by international students with the goal of “spreading Islam in North America”. Otherwise known as dawah, or the proselytizing of Islam.
The mere fact our American institutions have embraced and allowed a terror linked organization to flourish on their campuses is one danger, but the continued acceptance of anti-Israel rhetoric by the MSA and others such as Students for Justice in Palestine is a loaded powder keg which needs to be extinguished.
The following is the resolution presented to the Chancellor of UTC, Steven R. Angle. At this time, Chancellor Angle has not signed this resolution.
It’s sad to hear how ignorant many of today’s college students are, and their inability to be articulate regarding a controversial topic. Rather its apparent they only use the example of Gaza’s colleges being ruined, but Israel’s are not .Thanks to those that did understand the gravity of the subject, and objected to the resolution.
College campuses across America have become home to blatant anti- Israel sentiment, and pro Hamas agenda. Funding for Gazan students that are in the United States should not be given a status designation, while other students have the same need. Call Chancellor Steven Angle (423-425-4141) and advise him to not sign this resolution, which will undoubtedly cause more division among students, and ultimately Americans.
Coming up: Strange bedfellows..The Democratic Socialists of America student group and the Muslim Student Association.
You really can’t make this stuff up. Powers’ resolution HJR840 is a waste of time and paper. Legislators’ efforts would, without question, be better spent repealing the gratuitous Shane Reeves law which incentivizes Biden’s migrants and Obama’s DACAs – all of whom do not have any lawful immigration status, from settling in Tennessee.
Among the most inane parts of Powers’ resolution is recommending to Congress that to “combat illegal immigration”, they should pass a law that works like this:
(1) An illegal alien should be given a one-year grace period in which to order his or her affairs, leave the United States, and return to his or her country of lawful residence.
and then,
(2) If an illegal alien complies with these provisions, that person should be allowed to apply for legal readmission into the United States.
The first and most important question for Rep. Powers specifically is, who does he consider to be an “illegal alien”?
Last year Powers had his bill HB1247 in committee. The bill was intended to prohibit illegal aliens from living on state-owned property. During the March 29, 2023, committee hearing, a DACA recipient who, under federal immigration law has no lawful immigration status, complained to the committee that the bill would prohibit her from living in a state college dorm.
Rep. Rebecca Alexander who showed that she has swallowed the TIRRC kool-aid and knows nothing about DACA, asked, “so if you have DACA, then you are not considered illegal, is that correct?”
The TIRRC advocate responded that “DACA students currently have a legal status”. Except they don’t.
In fact, the U.S. Citizens & Immigration Services (USCIS) states clearly about DACA that, “deferred action does not confer lawful immigration status”.
Powers then made it clear that he wants to protect DACA recipients and any other illegal aliens who are “documented” and are here “legally”. Huh?
The rules and criteria required to be approved for the DACA two-year temporary deferral from deportation requires that they prove that they were in the U.S. with no lawful immigration statuswhen Obama put the legally invalid DACA program in place.
DACA grantees are removable at any time and do not have any lawful immigration status under federal immigration law and Congress has not decided to give them any. They are by definition, illegal aliens.
This year Rep. Jake McCalmon has the House companion bill, HB2774, to Ferrell Haile’s bill on illegal immigration. That bill has a comprehensive and accurate definition of “illegal alien” based on immigration status and which specifically includes anyone granted deferred deportation which includes DACA.
Rebecca Alexander has signed on as a co-sponsor to McCalmon’s bill. Does she see herself coming and going?
The bumbling and fumbling that goes on with legislators when it comes to illegal immigration is simply pathetic.
So, regarding Powers’ HJR840, inquiring minds want to know, how are you finding these illegal aliens that you think should self-deport? Is there any time limit for living here in violation of the law, say like five years, ten years or more, that would disqualify them from legally re-entering the U.S.? Are you planning to create an exception for DACA?
Are you, Rep. Powers going to support Rep. McCalmon’s bill on illegal immigration even though it outs your protected DACA recipients as illegal aliens?
It may be that the only thing SB2158/HB2774 does is show how worried Ferrell Haile is about winning his primary election.
The fake conservative Haile has a strong primary opponent who has the added bonus of being endorsed by the proven conservative John Rich.
So because Haile has voted to reward illegal aliens with the state public benefits of in-state tuition (the 2015 bill that passed the Senate but failed in House by a single vote), and the more recent reward of commercial and professional licenses, he now has to pretend that he really is opposed to endorsing Biden’s agenda on illegal immigration.
Haile’s SB2158 is going to require all the state agencies which btw, are funded by the legislature’s appropriations, to tell the legislature how much illegal immigration costs the state.
Does this mean that the legislature plans to send Biden a bill?
But Haile’s real hypocrisy or the fact that he really doesn’t know squat when he votes on immigration related bills and just does follows the marching order from Randy McNally, Jack Johnson, the NFIB or the Chamber, is exposed in his new bill.
Haile’s new bill would add yet another definition of “illegal alien” to the Tennessee Code. The bill says:
(g) As used in this section: (1) “Illegal alien” means an alien as defined in 8 U.S.C. § 101(a)(3), who is present in the United States without lawful immigration status and therefore subject to removal pursuant to federal law. An alien granted parole under 8 U.S.C. § 1182(d)(5), temporary protected status, deferred action, deferred enforced departure, or similar exercise of administrative grace or prosecutorial discretion is not deemed to have lawful immigration status;
These are the very same “illegal alien[s]” that in 2022, Haile voted to give them state public benefits.
For example, “deferred action” in Haile’s definition applies to DACA recipients. The DACA and temporary protected status folks were the two groups of illegal aliens who Shane Reeves told the Senate were the intended beneficiaries of his 2022 commercial and professional licensing bill.
Never mind that Reeve’s bill, now law, rewards many other groups who have no lawful immigration status because his law applies to any illegal alien who has work authorization.
What Haile and his cronies may not be prepared for though is the dollars and cents response likely to be generated by the very emboldened pro-illegal immigration groups in Tennessee. Just watch the response from TIRRC and their counterparts like Catholic Charities of TN which the legislature gifted with $7.3 million dollars to help them expand into new Tennessee territory. https://klp.wnv.mybluehost.me/tn-state-funds-catholic-charities-infrastructure-for-refugee-resettlement/
As far back as 2016, pro-legal and illegal advocacy groups like the Republican heavy Partnership for a New American Economy (later shorted to New American Economy), were churning out state reports to show how much money the legal immigrants and the “undocumented”, aka, migrants without lawful immigration status, were generating for state coffers.
For example, the 2016 NAE Tennessee report says that over 10,000 “undocumented entrepreneurs” generated $244.3 million dollars and overall in 2014, Tennessee’s “undocumented immigrants” earned $2.1 billion dollars, paying the tidy sum of $71.1 million dollars in state and local taxes, “leaving them with $1.8 B in spending power.”
Now of course this report says nothing about the remittance money that diverts a large portion of that discretionary cash. Has anyone’s state legislator ever mentioned the $625 million in 2020 and $748 million in 2021, that permanently left Tennessee’s economy in overseas remittances?
The American Immigration Council (AIC) which advocates for legalizing illegal aliens, issued its own report regarding “immigrants” in Tennessee. Their report claims that the subset of “undocumented” have paid $267.1 million in taxes with $104.2 million going to state and local taxes leaving these same households with $2.5 billion in spending power.
Of course what’s not clear from any of these reports is how much of the “spending power” is recycled public assistance which illegal aliens who have U.S. born children are able to access along with tax breaks like the child tax credit.
On the House side, freshman legislator Jake McCalmon (R-Franklin) is carrying HB2774, the companion bill to Haile’s bill.
McCalmon’s bill has a bunch of co-sponsors including several, who, like Haile, voted in 2022, to give illegal aliens the state public benefit of commercial and professional licenses. Just like Haile, House members Rebecca Alexander, Michele Carringer, Bud Hulsey, Iris Rudder and Clark Boyd, are now supporting a bill in which they effectively admit that the same groups they call out as “illegal aliens” and who they think cost the state money, are the very same ones they rewarded in 2022.
