As 9/11 Anniversary Approaches, Jihad Candidate Abdulrahman Mohamed El Sayed to Headline Terror-Tied Islamic Convention

The Democratic nominee for the Senate seat in Michigan is showing us his true colors.

ISNA was explicitly named in the Muslim Brotherhood document—titled “An Explanatory Memorandum on the General Strategic Goal for the Group in North America“—as one of the Brotherhood’s 29 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.”

ISNA’s has a long history of  antisemitism and fomenting of violence. According to Discover the Networks, “ISNA leaders view Islam as being superior to all other faiths and destined to replace them. Taha J. Alwani, a leading official of the Fiqh Council of North America, which is run under ISNA, writes: ‘In considering the earth as an arena for Islam, Allah has promised its inheritance to His righteous people, and He has promised that Islam will prevail over other religions.’…In July 2008, ISNA’s lawyers conceded that their organization, through its affiliate NAIT, had given financial support to Hamas leader Mousa Abu Marzook. Their defense was that documentary evidence of those ties dated back to the late 1980s and early 1990s, before the U.S. government had officially designated Hamas as a terrorist organization.”

* Enforces extremist Wahhabi theological writ in America’s mosques
* Established by U.S-based members of the Muslim Brotherhood who also had a background as leaders of the Muslim Students Association
* Largest Muslim organization in North America

We Found Every 9/11 Tweet Abdul El-Sayed Didn’t Want You to See

Chuck Ross at Free Beacon:

El-Sayed is headlining the Islamic Society of North America’s annual convention in Detroit on Saturday. There, El-Sayed will speak on a panel to examine a “turmoiled America” alongside left-wing pundit Cenk Uygur and Zaid Shakir, an outspoken New Jersey-based cleric, according to a convention itinerary (Free Beacon). Detroit Free Press: The 63rd annual ISNA (Islamic Society of North America) convention is being held in downtown Detroit over Labor Day weekend. More than 20,000 are expected to attend the 3-day convention at Huntington Place in Detroit. “We are proud Americans, we are proud Muslims,” ISNA’s CEO said…. One of the panels, titled “Cultivating God Awareness in a Turmoiled America,” will include Dearborn Mayor Abdullah Hammoud and U.S. Senate Democratic nominee Abdul El-Sayed. They and other panelists will talk about taqwa, an Islamic term that means ‘God awareness,’ and how it relates to the challenges facing society. “ISNA meets the moment by framing taqwa (God Awareness) not only as personal piety but as a public strategy for success,” reads the panel description on ISNA’s program. “It urges the Muslim community to mobilize taqwa to uphold unity, ethical integrity, and an uncompromised commitment to justice” (Free Press).

El-Sayed Equates Lives Lost on 9/11 With Lives Lost in Wars Against Terror-Supporting Nations

The comments came on 9/11/2021—at the 20-year anniversary: “Today, I mourn the 3K lives, 6K injuries, & infrastructural devastation in NYC, perpetrated ignorantly in the name of my faith. Tomorrow, 111m mourn ~1 M lives, millions of injuries, & infrastructural devastation in 3 countries, perpetrated ignorantly in the name of my country.” El-Sayed has tried to scrub the record of thinking on 9/11. Matt Vespa at Townhall pulled together them together. Vespa: “he tried to turn the deadliest terror attack into a “both sides” argument, saying 9/11 was awful, but our justified war against terrorism, a long campaign of self-defense, was somehow equally atrocious.” Quoting El-Sayed on our response to the terror attack, from an op-ed in 2021: The cancer born of a bellicose White supremacy that has stained so much of our history metastasized still (Townhall).

More on ISNA:

 the FBI concluded that the Muslim Brotherhood members who founded U.S.-based groups had risen to “leadership roles within NAIT [North American Islamic Trust] and its related organizations,” including ISNA, “which means they are in a position to direct the activities and support of Muslims in the U.S. for the Islamic Revolution.” Expanding on this, a late-’80s FBI memo said:

“Within the organizational structure of NAIT, there have been numerous groups and individuals identified as being a part of a covert network of revolutionaries who have clearly indicated there (sic) support for the Islamic Revolution as advocated by the Ayatollah Khomeini and his government as well as other fanatical Islamic Shiite fundamentalist leaders in the Middle East. This faction of Muslims have declared war on the United States, Israel and any other country they deem as an enemy of Islam. The common bond between these various organizations is both religious and political with the underlying common goal being to further the holy war (Islamic Jihad).”

Declassified FBI memos indicate that ISNA was identified as a Muslim Brotherhood front as early as 1987. “The entire organization is structured, controlled and funded by followers and supporters of the Islamic Revolution as advocated by the founders” of the Brotherhood in Egypt, said one source. In August 1988, that same source furnished the FBI with a private ISNA document “clearly stat[ing] that ISNA has a political goal to exert influence on political decision making and legislation in North America that is contrary to their certification in their not-for-profit tax returns as filed both with the State of Indiana and with IRS.” And a 1988 U.S. Muslim Brotherhood document bluntly identified ISNA as part of the “apparatus of the Brotherhood.”