By Michael Ashcraft –
While the pending deportation of Columbia student Mahmoud Khalil is a flashpoint for progressives, analysts from the Middle East call him — and others like him — terrorists, plain and simple.
“In America, they’re called activists,” says Amjad Taha, an analyst from the United Arab Emirates. “In the Middle East, they’re called terrorists. You have now more extremists in the United States of America than you have in the Middle East. Why are you allowing these extremists to destroy this beautiful amazing Western Civilization?”
Khalil should be deported, Taha says. But Western progressives are fighting under the guise of free speech for the people, who if put in power, would deny free speech to anyone and everyone except for radical Islamists.
Somali-born Ayaan Hirsi Ali should know. Once a member of the terrorist organization the Muslim Brotherhood, Ayaan emigrated to the West, rejected Islam and embraced Western values. She’s now warning against the weird partnership between progressives and radical Islamists.
“Islamophobia is a made-up word,” Hirsi Ali says. It’s made up by a political movement that wants to exploit and capitalize on white’s guilt to achieve its end goal, which is the revival of the caliphate and to convert all of us into Islam whether we like it or not.”It’s good to fight for American values: free speech for everyone, right to assemble, right to protest, etc. But progressives are selective in who they really fight for. During Covid, churches were denied the right to assemble while BLM protesters granted. The federal government pressured and social media platforms complied with the suppression of free speech over the science of vaccines.
The alliance between progressives and Islamists is baffling. Aside from getting votes from extremists, why do progressives so assiduously support people groups who would assassinate them, if in power?
Like Hirsi Ali, Mansour al-Hadj sheds light on America’s plight from his own experience. A Sudanese who grew up and got radicalized in Saudi Arabia, he studied sharia law in Sudan. He found out there throughout history there have been millions of peace-loving Muslims who lived in harmony with people of other religions. The extremists claimed falsely to represent true Islam, he says.
Al-Hadj immigrated to America because he espoused those values. What was his shock? Many mosques here in America preach the hatred of the Muslim Brotherhood. They use the freedoms given by America to try to subvert the freedoms of America, he says.
“Instead of promoting U.S. values that give them voices, (Islamists in America) do the te complete opposite by promoting hate, anti-Americanism and the Muslim Brotherhood ideology that demonizes the West,” al-Hadj says.
Mahmoud Khalil was born to Palestinian parents in a Syrian refugee camp. He then fled to Lebanon, where he called himself a “double refugee.” Granted Algerian citizenship, he applied to study international relations at Columbia University, where he participated in raucous anti-Israel, pro-Hamas protests.
He is married in the United States and holds a green card, which the Trump administration is revoking on the basis that he betrayed a fundamental component of the green card program: to not support terrorism. Khalil is being held at a Louisiana detention facility while his deportation has been stayed by a federal judge in New Jersey.
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