by Frank Holmes, reporter
One of the leading Democrats running for president in 2020 has teamed up with an anti-American radical who has met with terrorists, praised violence as brave, and encouraged people to wage “jihad… here in these United States of America.”
Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders decided Women’s March founder Linda Sarsour was just what his campaign needed.
Crazy Bernie tweeted out a clip of her endorsement this fall, designating her as an official campaign surrogate.
"I would be so proud to win, but also to make history and elect the first Jewish American president this country has ever seen and for his name to be Bernard Sanders." –@lsarsour pic.twitter.com/INPRlvmMur
— Bernie Sanders (@BernieSanders) September 6, 2019
Sarsour isn’t exactly new to Sanders’ campaign. She stumped for his longshot primary challenge to Hillary Clinton in 2016 and tweeted later that the experienced “changed my life.”
What an amazing gift. Memories that will last forever. Thank u @BernieSanders & @janeosanders. You changed my life forever. #StillSanders pic.twitter.com/TTo1EBj5Z9
— Linda Sarsour (@lsarsour) March 21, 2017
Too bad it didn’t change her views.
Sarsour runs the Arab American Association of New York, and her mentor—Imam Siraj Wahhaj—was an unindicted co-conspirator in the 1993 World Trade Center Bombing.
She’s been on the hard edge of anti-Americanism ever since.
Sarsour told her fellow Muslims to wage “jihad… not only abroad in the Middle East or on the other side of the world, but here, in these United States of America.” She said the American people had elected “fascists and white supremacists and Islamophobes.”
Sarsour tweeted that America living under Islamic Shari’a law “sounds nice.”
Sarsour met this year with convicted Palestinian terrorist Rasmea Odeh, who masterminded a terrorist attack that killed two young Jewish college students in Israel. Then she lied about it to U.S. immigration; she ended up being deported.
When they shared a stage in 2017, Linda Sarsour said Odeh is her kind of woman.
Sarsour said she was “honored and privileged to be here in this space, and honored to be on this stage with Rasmea,” the blood-soaked terrorist.
The real enemies, as far as Sarsour was concerned, were the police.
She accused the NYPD of persecuting poor Islamic radicals and somehow tricking them into trying to commit deadly acts of terrorism against the United States.
“We believe many of those cases are entrapment cases,” Sarsour said in 2012. “We believe that the NYPD informants actually manufacture these cases so they can justify the funding that comes to the NYPD.”
She ended up protesting until New York City ended its surveillance of likely Islamic terrorists…and terrorism exploded shortly afterwards.
Even the artwork she slapped on posters for her “Women’s March” featured a woman defacing the American flag by wearing it as a headscarf.
What kind of role model is Sarsour for young women, when she’s accused of quashing a Muslim woman who accused a man at Sarsour’s workplace of sexual harassment?
Sarsour said the man couldn’t have harassed the woman, because he’s a “good Muslim” who was “always at the mosque.”
The whistleblower said Sarsour “told me I’d never work in NYC ever again for as long as she lived,” and that—if she didn’t shut up—Sarsour “had the right to sue me for false claims.”
Critics say making false claims is what Sarsour does best, especially about Israel and the Jewish people.
Sarsour refused to condemn the Nation of Islam’s Louis Farrakhan and said that anyone who criticized Congresswoman Ilhan Omar owed “their allegiance to Israel over their commitment to democracy and free speech.”
Earlier this month, Sarsour claimed that the nation of Israel is “built on the idea that Jews are supreme to everybody else.”
Jewish groups are bewildered that Bernie thinks this is the woman he should have representing him on the hustings.
“Linda Sarsour is a virulent anti-Semite,” said the president of the World Jewish Congress, Ronald Lauder.
The Zionist Organization of America called Sasour a “vicious Jew-hater and terrorism promoter.”
Sarsour’s been so toxic that even the Democratic National Committee cut its formal ties with the Women’s March in January—and the Women’s March kicked her off its board this fall.
But that’s not too extreme for Bernie. Sanders’ press secretary, Briahna Joy Gray, called Sarsour “a wonderful spokesperson” who “continues to be surrogate for the campaign.”
Instead of holding his surrogates accountable, Sanders wrote in his article on “How to Fight Anti-Semitism” in that Donald Trump was responsible for killing Jews!
Will that be the shape of a Bernie Sanders presidency: palling around with terrorists, ending anti-terrorist programs, praising Islamic murderers, and trying to pin the spike in domestic terrorism on Donald Trump and his supporters?
Frank Holmes is a veteran journalist and an outspoken conservative that talks about the news that was in his weekly article, “On The Holmes Front.”