Failed Heroes of the Left: Linda Sarsour - The 4 Freedoms Library2024-03-29T00:02:52Zhttp://4freedoms.com/forum/topics/failed-heroes-of-the-left-linda-sarsour?groupUrl=argumentation&feed=yes&xn_auth=noLinda Sarsour Asks Muslims To…tag:4freedoms.com,2018-10-15:3766518:Comment:1979732018-10-15T01:53:23.855ZAlan Lakehttp://4freedoms.com/profile/AlanLake
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<div class="byline">Posted By<span> </span><a href="https://www.realclearpolitics.com/authors/ian_schwartz">Ian Schwartz</a><span> </span><br/>On Date July 6, 2017</div>
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<div class="video-body-text"><p>Activist Linda Sarsour, co-chair of the 2017 women's march against Donald Trump, called for a "jihad" against the president at the Islamic Society of North America (ISNA) convention in Chicago over the weekend. Sarsour was a delegate to the 2016 Democratic National Convention.<br/><br/>Sarsour is a supporter of the BDS movement against Israel and opposes bans of sharia. She also is a<span> </span><a href="https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=linda+sarsour+msnbc">somewhat frequent MSNBC guest</a><span> </span>and has appeared on<span> </span><i>The Rachel Maddow Show</i>.<br/><br/>"I hope that we when we stand up to those who oppress our communities that Allah accepts from us that as a form of jihad. That we are struggling against tyrants and rulers not only abroad in the Middle East or in the other side of the world, but here in these United States of America where you have fascists and white supremacists and Islamophobes reigning in the White House," Sarsour said.<br/><br/>"Our number one and top priority is to protect and defend our community, it is not to assimilate and please any other people and authority," she said. "Our obligation is to our young people, is to our women, to make sure our women are protected in our community."<br/><br/>"Our top priority and even higher than all those other priorities is to please Allah and only Allah," Sarsour declared.<br/><br/>Ben Jacobs of<span> </span><i>The Guardian</i><span> </span>tweeted Sarsour "was a vocal surrogate for Bernie Sanders during the 2016 primary and a DNC delegate."<br/><br/></p>
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<p class="Tweet-text e-entry-title" lang="en" dir="ltr" xml:lang="en">Sarsour was a vocal surrogate for Bernie Sanders during the 2016 primary and a DNC delegate</p>
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<div class="Tweet-metadata dateline"><a class="u-linkBlend u-url customisable-highlight long-permalink" href="https://twitter.com/Bencjacobs/status/883054476818599936">9:06 PM - Jul 6, 2017</a></div>
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<a href="https://twitter.com/berniesanders/status/823682138000293892">Sanders tweeted on January 23, 2017</a>: "Thank you @lsarsour for helping to organize the march and build a progressive movement. When we stand together, we win. #IMarchwithLinda"<br/><br/>
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<div class="Tweet-body e-entry-content"><p class="Tweet-text e-entry-title" lang="en" dir="ltr" xml:lang="en">Thank you <a href="https://twitter.com/lsarsour" class="PrettyLink profile customisable h-card" dir="ltr"><span class="PrettyLink-prefix">@</span><span class="PrettyLink-value">lsarsour</span></a> for helping to organize the march and build a progressive movement. When we stand together, we win. <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/IMarchwithLinda?src=hash" class="PrettyLink hashtag customisable" dir="ltr" rel="tag"><span class="PrettyLink-prefix">#</span><span class="PrettyLink-value">IMarchwithLinda</span></a></p>
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FULL SPEECH: Linda Sarsour addressing at 54th Annual ISNA Convention</div>
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<p><strong><span style="font-size: 2em;">Linda Sarsour Solicits Donations to Left-Wing Community Organizers for ‘Hurricane Relief Fund’</span></strong></p>
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<p><strong><span style="font-size: 2em;">Linda Sarsour Solicits Donations to Left-Wing Community Organizers for ‘Hurricane Relief Fund’</span></strong></p>
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<div class="entry-content"><h2>In the wake of the <a href="http://www.breitbart.com/live/live-wire-harvey-moves-back-gulf-100k-ordered-evacuated-advance-river-flooding/">ongoing devastation</a> in Texas as a result of Hurricane Harvey, progressive activist Linda Sarsour has solicited donations for a community organizing group that she has described as a “hurricane relief fund.”</h2>
<p>On Wednesday, Sarsour sent out a tweet asking people to donate to “hurricane relief,” when in fact all donations allegedly go towards the Texas Organizing Project (TOP), a <a href="http://organizetexas.org/" target="_blank" rel="noopener" class=" x5l">left-wing advocacy group</a> that openly opposes President Donald Trump and the Republican Party.</p>
<p>“While we are deeply saddened and disheartened with the results of the presidential election, Donald Trump’s win only strengthens our resolve to fight even harder for marginalized communities,” the front page of TOP’s website reads.</p>
<p>Meanwhile, their ‘hurricane relief fund’ page <a href="https://act.myngp.com/Forms/-3833118145683060992" target="_blank" rel="noopener" class=" x5l">claims</a> that they will “organize and advocate for our devastated communities, shining a spotlight on inequalities that emerge in the restoration of lives, livelihoods, and homes, amplifying the needs of hard-hit communities, and providing legal assistance for residents wrongfully denied government support.”</p>
<p>The tweet provoked a furious response from many of Sarsour’s followers, who accused her of using the tragedy for political gains.</p>
<p>This is not the first time that Sarsour has been connected with charities. In March, Sarsour partnered with Tarek El-Messidi, founder of the Celebrate Mercy nonprofit, to launch a crowdfunding effort for Muslims to help fix vandalized Jewish cemeteries.</p>
<p>However, despite a total of $162,468 being raised, only $50,000 of the money went to toward Jewish cemeteries in St. Louis, Chicago, and Rochester, while the rest of the money remains <a href="http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2017/07/12/democrat-linda-sarsour-wheres-100k-raised-jewish-cemetery/">unaccounted</a> for.</p>
<p>Sarsour, who describes herself as a feminist despite being an advocate for Sharia Law, has also <a href="http://www.breitbart.com/national-security/2017/07/06/linda-sarsour-calls-jihad-president-donald-trump/">previously declared</a> “jihad” against the Trump administration, and has <a href="http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2017/07/07/muslim-immigrants-must-not-assimilate-says-progressive-ally-linda-sarsour/">called on</a> Muslims in the United States to actively not assimilate into American society, but instead act “to please Allah and only Allah</p>
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<p><strong><span style="font-size: 2em;">Muslim activist goes on a rant with claims about Mohammad</span></strong></p>
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<div class="post-single-content box mark-links entry-content"><div class="thecontent"><p>Palestinian-American-Muslim Linda Sarsour, best known as a civil rights activist and national co-chairperson of the Women’s March, has emerged with some interesting claims about the Prophet Mohammad.</p>
<p>Sarsour, co-founder of MPower, “a grassroots movement of Muslim Americans working to build social, spiritual, racial, and economic justice for all people” said in a recent appearance at the infamous Dar Al-Hijrah mosque, home of Anwar al-Awlaki and numerous other terrorists, “We are in a critical moment in this country, and the question is, will you define Islam, or will you allow the racist, bigot, Islamophobes to define Islam?”</p>
<p>She continued by saying, “The truth, which is that our beloved prophet Mohammad was a human rights activist, he was a racial justice activist, he was an environmental justice activist … He also cared about the animals. He was an animal rights activist. He was a feminist in his own right–uplifted the women in his community.”</p>
<p>Sarsour, who has spoken out in strong support of sharia law, stated that the Prophet Mohammad “was the first victim of Islamophobia. You think you got it bad now–you think, oh, poor Muslims in America. Let’s take it back to when our beloved prophet was called a magician, a sorcerer, when people threw garbage at him.”</p>
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<p><span style="font-size: 2em;">VanNess: Linda Sarsour, Women’s March Organizer and Fake Feminist</span></p>
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<p class="byline"><span class="by-author"><span class="by">by</span> <a class="byauthor" href="http://www.breitbart.com/author/alex-van-ness/">ALEX VANNESS</a> </span><span class="bydate">3 Feb 2017…</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size: 2em;">VanNess: Linda Sarsour, Women’s March Organizer and Fake Feminist</span></p>
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<p class="byline"><span class="by-author"><span class="by">by</span> <a class="byauthor" href="http://www.breitbart.com/author/alex-van-ness/">ALEX VANNESS</a> </span><span class="bydate">3 Feb 2017</span></p>
<p class="byline"><span style="font-size: 1.5em;">Linda Sarsour is a principal organizer for Woman’s March on Washington following President Donald Trump’s inauguration.</span></p>
<div class="entry-content"><p>Her rise to liberal stardom following the march has occurred in spite of her support for anti-feminist views and outrageous attacks on anti-Sharia women leaders.</p>
<p>Sarsour, who serves as the executive director of the Arab American Association of New York (AAANY) and who was honored by former-President Obama’s White House as a “<a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20150612143649/http://www.whitehouse.gov/champions/giving-back-to-community/linda-sarsour" target="_blank" rel="noopener" class=" x5l">champion of change</a>,” seems as if she makes it a point to attach herself to every social justice cause known to man and tie it to Palestine. For example, in November, she attached herself to the cause of blocking Dakota Access Pipeline and made sure to <a href="https://twitter.com/PalsJustice/status/801858988748861440" target="_blank" rel="noopener" class=" x5l">bring her Palestinian flag.</a></p>
<p>This shameless promotion could also be seen at the Women’s March as well. When <a href="http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/223707" target="_blank" rel="noopener" class=" x5l">addressing the crowd</a>, she made sure to inject some Palestinian solidarity into the cause, stating “you can count on [her], your Palestinian Muslim sister to keep her voice loud.” She also made sure to note that she was her “Palestinian grandmother’s who lives in occupied territory wildest dream.”</p>
<p>However, her biggest splash that weekend was when the level of her hypocrisy towards the cause espoused by the Woman’s March was pointed out to the public.</p>
<p>Specifically, a <a href="https://twitter.com/lsarsour/status/534073703588700160" target="_blank" rel="noopener" class=" x5l">tweet of Sarsour’s</a> dismissing the misogynistic views of Saudi Arabia simply because the country has a paid maternity leave program, has been making the rounds on social media.</p>
<p><a href="http://media.breitbart.com/media/2017/02/Linda-Sarsour-Tweet-Saudi-Maternity-Leave-2016.png" target="_blank"><img src="http://media.breitbart.com/media/2017/02/Linda-Sarsour-Tweet-Saudi-Maternity-Leave-2016.png?width=450" width="450" class="align-left"/></a>Sarsour dismisses the fact that women in Saudi Arabia are treated as second-class citizens who are <a href="http://www.theweek.co.uk/60339/nine-things-women-cant-do-in-saudi-arabia" target="_blank" rel="noopener" class=" x5l">unable</a> to drive, interact with men, and dress as they please as inconsequential.</p>
<p>In addition to her dismissal of Saudi subjugation of women, she has <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HlN7t1u5Kyc" target="_blank" rel="noopener" class=" x5l">attacked</a> a documentary calling attention to the plight of women in the Islamic world. Sarsour has been a vocal critic of the executive producer of the film, Ayaan Hirsi Ali, a former Dutch Parliamentarian, ex-Muslim, and vocal critic of Islam who was also the victim of female genital mutilation.</p>
<p>In 2011, Sarsour <a href="http://archive.is/bVA02" target="_blank" rel="noopener" class=" x5l">took to twitter and vulgarly berated</a> Hirsi Ali; and ACT for America founder, Brigitte Gabriel, and said, “I wish I could take their vaginas away – they don’t deserve to be women.” This is especially in vulgar considering the suffering Hirsi Ali has endured. Shortly after the tweet was uncovered, instead of owning up to the vulgar tweet and apologizing, she tried to delete it before it was seen by too many people.</p>
<p><a href="http://media.breitbart.com/media/2017/02/sarsour-ayaan-hirsi-ali-tweet-2011.png" target="_blank"><img src="http://media.breitbart.com/media/2017/02/sarsour-ayaan-hirsi-ali-tweet-2011.png?width=450" width="450" class="align-right"/></a></p>
<p>Sarsour also has a long history of criticizing Israel in ways that cross the line into anti-Semitism and terrorist sympathizing.</p>
<p>She <a href="https://twitter.com/lsarsour/status/525324761053020160" target="_blank" rel="noopener" class=" x5l">supports</a> the discriminatory and <a href="http://www.jpost.com/Opinion/Columnists/The-world-from-here-Hamas-and-BDS-344303" target="_blank" rel="noopener" class=" x5l">terror-tied</a> BDS Movement and has <a href="https://twitter.com/lsarsour/status/263651398250545152" target="_blank" rel="noopener" class=" x5l">claimed</a> that “nothing is creepier” than Zionism.</p>
<p>She called for <a href="https://twitter.com/lsarsour/status/633747409265233920" target="_blank" rel="noopener" class=" x5l">solidarity</a> with Muhammad Allan, a member of the terrorist group Palestinian Islamic Jihad who has a <a href="http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/199716#.V2rW5OcrKiA" target="_blank" rel="noopener" class=" x5l">history</a> of recruiting suicide bombers.</p>
<p>After her hypocrisy towards Woman’s issue’s was exposed, she <a href="https://www.facebook.com/linda.sarsour/posts/10155090238470572" target="_blank" rel="noopener" class=" x5l">defended herself</a> by describing attacks on her as fascist, claiming “Fascism is here” and that “[w]e cannot allow them to criminalize our leaders and movements using baseless claims… Remember, we are and can be the true <a href="https://www.facebook.com/hashtag/neveragain?source=feed_text&story_id=10155090238470572" target="_blank" rel="noopener" class=" x5l">#NeverAgain</a> generation.”</p>
<p>She describes those supporting her as her “Love Army.” To them, legitimate criticisms of both her views and her associations ring hollow.</p>
<p>Groups that sponsored the march – including the official twitter account of <a href="https://twitter.com/womensmarch/status/823613178760351744" target="_blank" rel="noopener" class=" x5l">Woman’s March</a>, <a href="https://twitter.com/hrw/status/823923667704934400" target="_blank" rel="noopener" class=" x5l">Human Rights Watch</a>, <a href="https://twitter.com/Blklivesmatter/status/823653787629797377" target="_blank" rel="noopener" class=" x5l">Black Lives Matter</a>, <a href="https://twitter.com/amnestyusa/status/823643602475687940" target="_blank" rel="noopener" class=" x5l">Amnesty International</a>, and the <a href="https://twitter.com/splcenter/status/823639309240729601" target="_blank" rel="noopener" class=" x5l">Southern Poverty Law Center</a> – have launched a full scale defense of Sarsour. The hashtag #IMarchWithLinda trended on Twitter.</p>
<p>Cable news personality Sally Kohn issued several tweets defending Sarsour, including <a href="https://twitter.com/sallykohn/status/823704847383834625" target="_blank" rel="noopener" class=" x5l">calls for people to donate</a> to the AAANY. I don’t think Kohn is aware that the AAANY used to receive financial support from <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20150120100741/http://www.arabamericanny.org/our-supporters/" target="_blank" rel="noopener" class=" x5l">Qatar Foundation International,</a> an organization <a href="http://www.clarionproject.org/analysis/ny-arab-advocacy-group-funding-linked-qatar" target="_blank" rel="noopener" class=" x5l">closely linked</a> to the Qatari government. Additionally, because of her ties to New York Mayor Bill de Blasio, the AAANY was able to secure <a href="http://nypost.com/2016/04/02/city-gives-500k-to-activist-at-center-of-palestine-israel-twitter-war/" target="_blank" rel="noopener" class=" x5l">$500,000</a> in funding for the AAANY.</p>
<p>Sarsour also received several celebrity endorsements from, among others, <a href="https://twitter.com/SusanSarandon/status/823626991702339586" target="_blank" rel="noopener" class=" x5l">Susan Sarandon</a>, <a href="https://twitter.com/MarkRuffalo/status/823726043697737728" target="_blank" rel="noopener" class=" x5l">Mark Ruffalo</a>, and <a href="https://twitter.com/UncleRUSH/status/823594411326078976" target="_blank" rel="noopener" class=" x5l">Russell Simmons</a>.</p>
<p>Hey, if Mark Ruffalo likes her she must be good, right?</p>
<p>While personal attestations are nice, they are not proof that someone’s even a good person. Even terrible people can find someone who thinks they’re nice.</p>
<p>Those supporting her do not care that she promotes terrorists; they don’t care that she vulgarly called for a victim of female genital mutilation to have her genitalia removed; and they are not concerned that she downplays misogyny in Saudi Arabia. As far as they’re concerned, she helped set up a March so therefore she’s the bees knees.</p>
<p>Sarsour is seen as a rising star in leftist circles and the Democratic Party. The left needs to take the blinders off and take a long, hard look at the people they’re propping up as role models.</p>
<p><em>Alex VanNess is the director of the Middle East Peace & Security Project at The Center for Security Policy.</em></p>
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