Much has been made of the candidacy of a military hero who served as a doctor in Iraq and responded to help at Ground Zero after 9/11, who just won the Democrat primary Tuesday night. His name is Dr. Adam Hamawy, and at first glance, his credentials are impressive:
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Dr. Adam Hamawy grew up in Old Bridge. The son of Egyptian immigrants, he graduated from Rutgers Medical School. Hamawy joined the New Jersey Army National Guard and treated Sept. 11, 2001, terror attack victims at Ground Zero. He served as a trauma surgeon in Iraq and rose to the rank of lieutenant colonel. Now, he has a family and his own practice in New Jersey as a reconstructive surgeon.
That is, until you hear the darker side of his story. And, he’s running for an open seat in the 12th Congressional District of New Jersey.
Although Hamawy is depicted as a patriotic American who served in the military for 20 years—he previously saved the life of Senator Tammy Duckworth along with other troops—he has yet to address his relationship with the Blind Sheikh, the mastermind of 9/11. How close were they? Close enough that he was called in to testify for the defense at the Blind Sheikh’s trial:
Adam Hamawy, running in the Democratic primary to represent New Jersey’s 12th Congressional District with Rep. Ilhan Omar’s (D., Minn.) endorsement, was a 26-year-old medical student when Abdel-Rahman’s lawyers put him on the stand to deny charges that the Blind Sheikh—whose followers carried out the 1993 World Trade Center bombing—had called for the murder of then-Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak. The New York Times reported on Hamawy’s participation in the trial at the time, but dozens of pages of testimony reviewed by the Washington Free Beacon reveal a yearslong relationship between the congressional candidate and the jihadist leader. Front Page Magazine first reported on their connection.
Hamawy and Abdel-Rahman met in 1991 when the Islamist firebrand delivered a lecture at Matawan-Aberdeen Middle School in Cliffwood, N.J. From there, the Egyptian-born Hamawy said, he followed the Blind Sheikh to speaking events at mosques, visited the cleric in his home, and provided him with translation help.
He also attended a conference with the Sheikh called “Towards a Global Islamic Economy,” and admitted at the trial that the conference was not about economics, and that “jihad” was frequently referenced.
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Hamawy is the leading fundraiser among the candidates, but has had some questionable organizations contributing to his campaign:
He has a significant fundraising lead over his opponents, totaling more than $540,000 in donations to his closest competitor’s $400,000. In addition to Omar, Hamawy has received the backing of anti-Israel organizations like American Priorities—a new super PAC funded in large part by donors to Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s (D., N.Y.) mayoral campaign—and Track AIPAC, which accuses pro-Israel politicians in the United States of being ‘foreign agents.’
The political arm of the Council on American-Islamic Relations—whose leader, Nihad Awad, said he was ‘happy to see’ Oct. 7—endorsed Hamawy in March.
There are two additional points that are worth noting. First, people might be tempted to point to his compassionate activity as a doctor, both in the U.S. and Iraq. Yet it’s also important to point out that another medical doctor, Ayman al-Zawahiri, was the deputy of Osama bin Laden, and took over Al Qaeda when bin Laden was killed.
The second point is that instead of trying to explain his early and extensive relationship with the Blind Sheikh and his affiliation with other jihadists, he points to his U.S. military service, as if it would absolve from his own questionable history.
We have far too many Muslims running for political office, and we have no way of knowing their current leanings in terms of jihadism.
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