{"id":693,"date":"2026-06-03T19:14:27","date_gmt":"2026-06-03T19:14:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/interstatelogisticshubs.com\/?p=693"},"modified":"2026-06-03T19:14:27","modified_gmt":"2026-06-03T19:14:27","slug":"an-islamist-ran-for-political-office-in-new-jersey-and-won","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/interstatelogisticshubs.com\/?p=693","title":{"rendered":"An Islamist ran for political office in New Jersey&#8230;and won"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>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:<\/p><p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/interstatelogisticshubs.com\/?p=690\">Vatican bigwig calls John Lennon\u2019s \u2018Imagine\u2019 the \u2018most beautiful song in the world\u2019<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Dr. Adam Hamawy\u00a0grew up in Old Bridge. The son of Egyptian immigrants, he graduated from\u00a0Rutgers 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\u00a0practice in New Jersey as a\u00a0reconstructive surgeon.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>That is, until you hear the darker side of his story. And, he\u2019s running for an open seat in the 12th Congressional District of New Jersey.<\/p>\n<p>Although Hamawy is depicted as a patriotic American who served in the military for 20 years\u2014he previously saved the life of Senator Tammy Duckworth along with other troops\u2014he 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 <em>defense<\/em> at the Blind Sheikh\u2019s trial:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Adam Hamawy, running in the Democratic primary to represent New Jersey\u2019s 12th Congressional District with Rep. Ilhan Omar\u2019s (D., Minn.) endorsement, was a 26-year-old medical student when Abdel-Rahman\u2019s lawyers put him on the stand to deny charges that the Blind Sheikh\u2014whose followers carried out the 1993 World Trade Center bombing\u2014had called for the murder of then-Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak. The\u00a0<em>New York Times<\/em>\u00a0reported on Hamawy\u2019s participation in the trial at the time, but dozens of pages of testimony\u00a0reviewed by the\u00a0<em>Washington Free Beacon<\/em>\u00a0reveal a yearslong relationship between the congressional candidate and the jihadist leader.\u00a0<em>Front Page Magazine<\/em>\u00a0first reported\u00a0on their connection.<\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>He also attended a conference with the Sheikh called \u201cTowards a Global Islamic Economy,\u201d and admitted at the trial that the conference was not about economics, and that \u201cjihad\u201d was frequently referenced.<\/p><p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/interstatelogisticshubs.com\/?p=688\">Paul Krugman wants to nuke red America from orbit<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Hamawy is the leading fundraiser among the candidates, but has had some questionable organizations contributing to his campaign:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>He has a significant fundraising lead\u00a0over his opponents, totaling more than $540,000 in donations to his closest competitor\u2019s $400,000. In addition to Omar, Hamawy has received the backing of anti-Israel organizations like American Priorities\u2014a new super PAC funded in large part by donors to Mayor Zohran Mamdani&#8217;s (D., N.Y.) mayoral campaign\u2014and Track AIPAC, which accuses pro-Israel politicians in the United States of being \u2018foreign agents.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>The political arm of the Council on American-Islamic Relations\u2014whose leader, Nihad Awad, said he was \u2018happy to see\u2019 Oct. 7\u2014endorsed\u00a0Hamawy in March.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>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\u2019s 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.<\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>We have far too many Muslims running for political office, and we have no way of knowing their current leanings in terms of jihadism.<\/p><p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/interstatelogisticshubs.com\/?p=683\">Oh no! 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