Omar Abdel-Rahman

He just won District 12.

And there's a great piece in The Atlantic about how he was hanging out with the Blind Sheikh in the 90s.

He was in the Blind Sheikh's posse who was convicted of attempting to blow up the World

Trade Center.

Center, Holland Tunnel, Lincoln Tunnel, UN building, and was a jihadist preacher.

This is the New York that experienced 9-11, and she downplayed 9-11, said it was the fault of Western white supremacists.

New Jersey's Democratic congressman-elect Adam Hamaway was an associate of Omar Abdul Rahman and spoke in favor of him at his trial.

Rahman was sentenced to life in prison for plotting to blow up New York City landmarks.

These are the people Americans have elected to power.

Amazingly, Rothman writes, she did so while articulating almost verbatim Osama bin Laden's logic for the September 11th attacks.

Then you've got Adam Hamaway of New Jersey, longtime associate of the Blind Sheikh.

I've been reading about him in the Atlantic of all places, the lefty Atlantic.

Dude is down with Islamism.

According to The Atlantic, Quote, if we are to assume that Adam Hamali's political coming of age included a turn away from such men as Abdulrahman, the puzzle is why he does not talk candidly about that change of heart rather than continuing to insist that to ask such questions is hateful.

So who is Abdulrahman? Omar Abdulrahman is a man called the Blind Sheikh.

The Blind Sheikh was the man behind the 1993 World Trade Center bombing.

And Adam Hamali was associated with him.

Hamaoui described Abdulrahman in the early 1990s as akin to a religious celebrity.

He was someone who led prayers and was known for his recitation of the Koran.

I met him, Hamaoui said, like so many others.

In 1991, the blind sheikh, again, a terrorist, was invited to speak at an Islamic conference in Detroit.

Mahfouz paid a price as well.

Egypt banned his novel for blasphemy and in 1989, a year after he won the Nobel, the radical cleric Omar Abdel Rahman, leader convicted of plotting to bomb New York landmarks, said that Mahfouz deserved to die for writing it.

And in 1994, an Islamist stabbed him in the neck.

outside of his Cairo home.

right and uh right

so he um basically i mean he uh was admitting through part of that process that the Blind Sheikh said every day things about jihad against America.

And meanwhile, as the opponent claims to be America-loving or American or whatever, He didn't never think that, okay, if somebody is threatening the United States every day and you're right there, don't you try to get out of there first of all, you know, quit on principle and then go to the authorities and say, hey, you got a dangerous guy here.

You should monitor him at least to see what he's up to because he's making all these threats and he has an organization and he's been convicted and a bunch of stuff.