Congressional candidate accuses Freedom Center of “guilt-by-association attacks on Muslim and Arab candidates.”
On April 20th, I emailed the campaign of ‘Adam’ Hisham Hamawy, an Egyptian Muslim plastic surgeon running for Congress in New Jersey, asking him three questions about his ties to Sheikh Omar Abdel Rahman, the ‘Blind Sheikh’ whose followers had bombed the World Trade Center and plotted to blow up the Statue of Liberty and other landmarks in the ‘Monuments plot’.
1. What was your relationship with Sheikh Rahman? How long had you known him before the ride?
2. How did you come to be asked to testify at the trial?
3.Do you still stand by your testimony?
Hamawy never got back to me. Four days later, Freedom Center Investigates ran the story exposing the congressional candidate’s relationship with an Islamic terrorist leader, his closeness to a man whom an FBI informant noted had paranoid security, and the politician’s testimony on the terrorist leader’s behalf at one of New York City’s biggest terror trials.
The story has since gone viral, appearing across social media, and was picked up by FOX News, the Free Beacon, Politico and local media in New Jersey. Rather than answer questions, Hamawy and his campaign have blamed ‘Islamophobia’ and accused us of being ‘anti-Islam’.
“’Hamawy’s campaign pointed out that the initial story was written in FrontPage Magazine, a website affiliated with the anti-Islam David Horowitz Freedom Center, and called it ‘guilt-by-association attacks on Muslim and Arab candidates,” media outlets reported.
David Horowitz had long called out ‘Islamophobia’ as a dishonest dodge by Islamists and their political allies to cover up their extremism while silencing those who point it out, and Hamawy’s efforts to hide his past by calling us “anti-Islam” show how how right he was all over again. --->READ MORE HERE
Adam Hamawy told reporters the sheikh only discussed 'innocuous things,' blatantly contradicting what he said under oath at the sheikh's 1995 terror trial
A Democrat now making a strong run for a New Jersey congressional seat pointedly refused to condemn his late mentor—the notorious, terror-plotting "Blind Sheikh"—and claimed the sheikh was just a gentle old man when local media confronted the candidate on Thursday.
Adam Hamawy, now a plastic surgeon in Princeton, dismissed questions about Omar Abdel-Rahman, the so-called Blind Sheikh who played a key role in the 1993 World Trade Center bombing, calling Abdel-Rahman "a blind old man" and a "well-known person in the community" who only talked about "innocuous things."
"He was a leader of the community that talks about how to pray, how to wash, how to practice as a normal Muslim. … He wasn't preaching death and destruction all the time," Hamawy said.
When a reporter pressed about how "charismatic" the sheikh must have been to get Hamawy to follow him, the surgeon added, "Not just me, the entire community. He was an old man that was disabled and … people volunteered. It was the entire community."
The sheikh was 54 in 1993.
When another reporter asked about whether Hamawy would condemn the sheikh—or the concept of "jihad"—Hamawy laughed.
"Any extremism [of] any kind is bad," he said, referring to his service as a military doctor. "I'm against all war and all violence."
He refused to specifically condemn the sheikh or Islamic jihad, instead saying, "I condemn all extremism and all violence of any kind."
At one point a Hamawy handler tried to shut down the terrorism talk—but the surgeon was in a chatty mood.
"As a Muslim they're always going to find something to attack," Hamawy said. "I'm used to this all my life." --->READ MORE HERE
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