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HARRIS: Today’s Muslim Refugees = Jews Who Fled the Third Reich
In a series of tweets which she posted on January 27, 2017 — International Holocaust Memorial Day — Harris compared Jews who escaped Nazi genocide during the Third Reich, to modern-day Muslims seeking refuge in the United States from terrorism-connected countries in the Middle East. She also used the occasion to condemn President Trump’s then-recent executive order declaring a temporary moratorium on travel to the U.S. by people from a small handful of such terror-tied nations. Tweeted Harris:
HARRIS: Lamenting “Islamophobia”
On November 13, 2015 in Paris, a coordinated series of Islamic terrorist attacks killed 137 people and wounded more than 400. Three weeks later, a husband-and-wife pair of Islamic terrorists shot up a Christmas party in San Bernardino, California, killing 14 and wounding 22. Soon after the latter atrocity, Harris, who was then the Attorney General of California, convened a session on “Islamophobia” that included participants from the Council on American-Islamic Relations, the Muslim Public Affairs Council, and the Muslim Students Association — all of which had previously defended Islamic terrorists. Even after “the recent attacks in Paris and San Bernardino,” she explained, it would be wrong “to stoke fear and cast aspersions against an entire faith and the millions of law-abiding American Muslims.”
In June 2016, an Islamic terrorist gunman killed 49 people at a nightclub in Florida. Harris, who was running for the U.S. Senate at the time, blamed this attack – as well as those in San Bernardino and Paris — on “mental illness and violent extremism.” She also lamented that Muslims had become victims of widespread “Islamophobia” rooted in hate.
In July 2016, Harris passionately denounced “Islamophobia” during a Ramadan event at the Islamic Center of Southern California (ICSC), which spun off the Muslim Public Affairs Council, a close ally of the Islamic supremacist Muslim Brotherhood which has been described by Islam expert Robert Spencer as “the parent organization of Hamas and al Qaeda.”
HARRIS: Relationship with Hamas-Linked CAIR
The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) is a Muslim extremist group co-founded in 1994 by individuals affiliated with the Islamic Association for Palestine (IAP). The IAP was created by senior Hamas operative Mousa Abu Marzook and functioned as Hamas’ public-relations and recruitment arm in the U.S.
In 2015, Hussam Ayloush, executive director of CAIR’s Los Angeles office, lauded Harris for including CAIR in an interfaith meeting with law-enforcement officials. He also stated that Harris “exemplified leadership” by having pledged to address the allegedly widespread scourge of “Islamophobia” in America.
In December 2015 — shortly after two Muslim terrorists had killed 14 people and wounded 22 others in a San Bernardino, California mass shooting — Harris hosted CAIR for an interfaith community event.
In 2016, CAIR’s political action committee donated $1,750 to Harris’ U.S. Senate campaign.
In October 2017, Harris said the following about CAIR: “The Council has strived to improve understanding about Islam, and move toward a future in which we welcome people of all faiths and nationalities into our neighborhoods and our schools, as well as [into] our hearts and our minds.”
In September 2018, Harris wrote a letter of support to CAIR on the occasion of the organization’s 24th anniversary. Said the letter: “As you celebrate this milestone, please accept my gratitude and admiration for your tireless work to promote peace, justice, and mutual understanding. For nearly a quarter century, CAIR has worked diligently to dismantle Islamophobic rhetoric, mobilize the American Muslim community, and encourage civic engagement…. In the face of intolerant and exclusionary policies, CAIR has steadfastly defended the Constitutional rights of American Muslims … Today, as we continue to promote tolerance and eliminate hate in our society, CAIR’s work remains as important as it was the day of its founding in 1994.”
CAIR advised Harris on community issues during her time as Attorney General and Senator in California.
HARRIS & BIDEN: Ties to Radical Muslims
In September 2024, “during the blessed last 10 days of Ramadan,” VP Harris posed for a photo with those whom she called “our Administration’s incredible Muslim team.” Reporter Daniel Greenfield pointed out the identities of some notable members of that team:
WALZ: Ties to Hamas-Linked CAIR
In October 2017, Walz said to a gathering of CAIR members: “The years you have spent serving our community and defending civil liberties are an incredible accomplishment. Thank you for the wonderful work you do in Minnesota and across our great nation.”
WALZ: “Challenging Islamophobia”
On March 28, 2019, in the city of St. Paul, Walz spoke at a “Challenging Islamophobia” conference hosted by CAIR’s Minnesota chapter. In the course of his remarks, he proudly announced the formation of a new civil-rights office that would address the alleged prevalence of “Islamophobia” in Minnesota, which was home to more Somali Muslims than any other state in America. Photos taken at the conference showed Walz posing with Hatem Bazian, a prominent anti-Semitic scholar who: (a) has long defended Palestinian terrorist activities targeting Israel; (b) founded Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP), which organizes and sponsors anti-Israel events and campaigns more actively than any other student group in America; and (c) founded SJP’s parent group, American Muslims for Palestine, which promotes the Hamas-inspired BDS movement against Israel and has been investigated for allegedly financing Islamic terrorism.
WALZ: Ties to the Islamic Extremist Asad Zaman
While serving as governor of Minnesota between 2019 and 2024, Walz hosted Imam Asad Zaman, executive director of the Muslim American Society (MAS) of Minnesota, on at least five separate occasions. One of those occasions was an MAS-Minnesota event on February 16, 2018, where then-gubernatorial candidate Walz said: “I am a teacher, so when I see a master teacher, I know it…. It was a lesson when Imam [Zaman] told me to go speak to people. I have pushed back through my whole career on the demonization of Islam, on the demonization of immigrants.… In this space, Imam Zaman is right on this, there is Islamophobia, there is a hatred that is being stirred.”
Some noteworthy facts about Zaman:
WALZ: $100,000 for the Muslim American Society
Gov. Walz’s administration in Minnesota gave $100,000 worth of grants to MAS’s national organization, which was founded in 1992 as the U.S. chapter of the Muslim Brotherhood.
WALZ: Admiration for Rep. Ilhan Omar
In a video posted to social media on August 7, 2024, Walz said: “When I’m having a tough day, and I’m feeling kinda down and the world is pressing on me, I think, ‘Ilhan Omar is a congresswoman,’ and it just brightens you up.” Omar is a U.S. House member who has repeatedly
TRUMP: Destroyed the ISIS Caliphate
In June 2014, the terrorist organization ISIS announced the existence of what it called a new Islamic caliphate. Six months after that, an ISIS spokesman announced his group’s genocidal intentions: “We will conquer Europe one day. It is not a question of [whether] we will conquer Europe, just a matter of when that will happen…. For us, there is no such thing as borders. There are only front lines…. Our expansion will be rapid and perpetual.” As of January 1, 2015, ISIS controlled at least 45 separate cities and towns across northern Iraq and eastern Syria.
The Obama-Biden administration greatly hampered the American military effort against ISIS by imposing highly restrictive rules-of-engagement on U.S. bombers capable of striking terrorist targets from the air. Obama-Biden’s weakness in dealing with ISIS had horrific consequences for millions of people in the Middle East. In January 2016, NBC News reported that “at least 18,802 civilians have been killed in Iraq in ISIS-linked violence in under two years,… with millions of others forced from their homes and thousands more held as slaves.”
But the American assault on ISIS intensified dramatically after Donald Trump became president. Within five months, the number of bombs that were dropped each month by the U.S. military onto ISIS strongholds and assets, more than doubled. Moreover, as CNN reported: “Trump decided to equip the anti-ISIS Syrian Democratic Forces — a largely Kurdish militia — with mortars, anti-tank weapons, armored cars and machine guns.”
The Trump administration also gave U.S. military commanders authority to carry out their missions without micromanagement from Washington, a move that played a key role in America’s military advances against ISIS. On December 26, 2017, Fox News reported: “ISIS has lost 98 percent of the territory it once held — with half of that terror group’s so-called ‘caliphate’ having been recaptured since President Trump took office less than a year ago.”
By taking a strong approach in dealing with ISIS, President Trump saved countless thousands of Muslim lives — a reality that thoroughly contradicts the Democrats’ depiction of Trump as “anti-Islamic.”
TRUMP: The Killing of Major Terrorist Leaders
Under President Trump’s command, U.S. forces in August 2019 killed Hamza bin Laden, a high-ranking al-Qaeda member and son of the late Osama bin Laden, in a counter-terrorism operation in the Afghanistan/Pakistan region.
In October 2019, President Trump authorized a special-forces operation that targeted and killed ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi in Syria.
In January 2020, Trump ordered the CIA to launch a drone strike that killed Qassim al-Rimi, the leader of al-Qaeda’s affiliate in Yemen.
That same month, Trump ordered a drone strike that killed Qasem Soleimani, the notorious general who: (a) headed Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps; (b) had long been considered a terrorist by American officials; (c) headed Iranian-affiliated terrorist operations that trained Iran proxies who were responsible for more than 600 American deaths; and (d) was believed to be in the process of preparing additional attacks on U.S. diplomats in the Middle East.
