Emily

I too grew up in Lebanon. When I was only five years old, Palestinian gunmen, in coordination with local militias, helped ethnically cleanse Christians from southern Mount Lebanon. In September 1983, they and their allies displaced tens of thousands of Christians from the Shouf and Aley regions, slaughtering at least 1,500 people in the process. This was not an isolated episode. In January 1976, Palestinian factions carried out what was then the largest act of ethnic cleansing of the Lebanese Civil War in the coastal city of Damour. At least 300 civilians—women, children, and the elderly—were murdered, and thousands more were driven from their homes. These were Lebanese civilians, killed in their own country by foreign armed groups. @TaghridAlMawed should be ashamed—unequivocally—for two reasons. First, she is falsifying history by portraying Palestinians as nothing more than victims in Lebanon. That is a distortion. Palestinian militias were not passive actors; they were perpetrators. They helped trigger the civil war in 1975, killed thousands of Lebanese Christians, contributed to the fragmentation of the country, and later turned their guns on one another (Abu Musa vs. Arafat) as well as on Lebanese factions such as Shia Amal during the War of the Camps (1985–1988). The scale of violence and devastation they inflicted on Lebanon—a country that had taken them in—cannot simply be erased or rewritten. Second, and even more reprehensible, is her willingness to exploit the deaths of two recently killed individuals in Lebanon for political point-scoring. These deaths occurred in a context entirely unrelated to a civil war that ended 36 years ago. Yes, Pierre Moawad was a Lebanese Forces activist. But unlike Palestinian gangs in the camps, or Hezbollah, the Lebanese Forces have long disarmed and operate today as a political party. To circulate images of the newly dead in order to resurrect old conflicts and weaponize their deaths is not just irresponsible—it is morally indefensible. Then again I am not surprised because I expect no better from extremist Palestinian activists. @TaghridAlMawed: shame on you.

After showing you: 1) Muslim Brotherhood-linked organizations were getting our federal tax dollars x.com/anjewla90/stat… 2)A Mosque tied to one of the MOST SIGNIFICANT terrorism financial trials also received money x.com/anjewla90/stat… x.com/anjewla90/stat… 3) This same Mosque bussed people to the pro-Hamas protests. (PS It wasn't the first or last time). I will now dive in to all the Chicago Politicians that have a relationship to this mosque. This includes Senator Dick Durbin @SenatorDurbin, Gov. Pritzker, @GovPritzker, former Rep. Marie Newman, State Senator Senator Jacqueline Y. Collins @senatorjacqui , State Rep. Representative Cyril Nichols @repnichols , Bridgeview Mayor Mayor Steven Landek, Hickory Hills Mayor Mike Howley, former Chicago Ridge Mayor Chuck Tokar, and Chief of Police Bridgeview Ricardo Mancha. Remember: "Jamal Said, one of the current leaders at the mosque, was listed as an unindicted co-conspirator in the Holy Land Foundation (HLF) Hamas financing trial in Texas, which ended with sweeping guilty verdicts on 108 counts in late 2008.Past president, secretary and board member of the Mosque Foundation,Rafeeq Jaber, was the president of the Islamic Association for Palestine (IAP) and the founder of the Chicago chapter of the IAP. Internal IAP memos and other pieces of evidence released during the HLF case in Dallas indicated that the IAP served as a Hamas support arm. One of the mosque's current Imam's, Kifah Mustapha, was also listed as an unindicted co-conspirator in the HLF trial as a member of the Muslim Brotherhood's Palestine Committee. A 1991 internal memo to the Palestine Committee members reveals that the members of this committee intended to further the Muslim Brotherhood's goals 'on the American front.'" - While this investigation is 15 years old, many still remain there and they are still on the website. mosquefoundation.org "Jamal Said is principal imam and a director of the Mosque Foundation. He has worked in that role since 1985. He grew up in the West Bank and has said that he was inspired by the Muslim Brotherhood as a child. In 1993, fellow leader Muhammad Salah was arrested in the Gaza Strip on charges of financing Hamas military operations, and jailed in Israel for five years. During questioning, Salah said that Said was responsible for recruiting him into the Muslim Brotherhood. In 2004, the Chicago Tribune reported that Said led a fundraiser for Sami Al-Arian, a Palestinian activist accused by the U.S. government of aiding terrorists. The same report noted that the theocratic government of Saudi Arabia paid part of Said’s salary at the mosque." influencewatch.org/non-profit/the… So ask yourself how they received this TAX PAYER funding, why Chicago Politicians praise them, and what role they play in the pro-Hamas protests.