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| | When asked if she had heard that some police officers were hurt that night, Rahman again justified violence and blamed the mayor for not pulling the police back. Violence would continue, she warned, because "nothing else works." She also asserted that no reform of the police would be sufficient and declared, "It's not gonna be enough until they defund the police." | | When asked if she had heard that some police officers were hurt that night, Rahman again justified violence and blamed the mayor for not pulling the police back. Violence would continue, she warned, because "nothing else works." She also asserted that no reform of the police would be sufficient and declared, "It's not gonna be enough until they defund the police." |
| | Rahman has a history as both a supporter of the Palestinian cause and an anti-police activist from her student days at Fordham Law.</blockquote> | | Rahman has a history as both a supporter of the Palestinian cause and an anti-police activist from her student days at Fordham Law.</blockquote> |
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| | + | *Lamis Deek, a former Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) New York attorney and board member, In March 2022, Last month, she sent "All love and support to the magnificent" - to infamous<ref>[https://sanfrancisco.adl.org/news/adl-rebukes-s-f-muslim-leader-zahra-billoos-comments/ Muslim leader Zahra Billoo’s Comments], ADL SF, December 8, 2021.</ref><ref>[https://canarymission.org/individual/Zahra_Billoo canarymission.org |
| | + | Zahra Billoo]</ref> racist Zahra Billoo. In Apr 2022 at an Al Awda anti Israel demonstration she glorified Jihad and terror groups.<ref>Ariel Behar, [https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/326284 New York rally's blatant support of terrorism], |
| | + | ''INN'', 24.04.22.<blockquote> |
| | + | The Al-Awda rally made a clear statement that the group sees killing of Israeli civilians as "resistance" worth hailing and that its goal is the end of Israel.. Op-ed. |
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| | + | "But we say unapologetically and boldly: Hamas are freedom fighters! PFLP are freedom Fighters! Islamic Jihad are freedom fighters! Fatah armed forces are freedom fighters! All of our people in Palestine are freedom fighters," Lamis Deek, an attorney and Al-Awda's New York representative exclaimed Saturday... |
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| | + | At an American Muslims for Palestine (AMP) rally last May, Deek portrayed Israel as a global threat and "threat to all of us on the streets." As long as Israel exists, "we risk the resurrection of apartheid in South Africa, we risk the resurrection of colonization in Algeria." |
| | + | Deek is also a former Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) New York attorney and board member. Last month, she sent "All love and support to the magnificent" Zahra Billoo, CAIR's San Francisco chapter chief, after anti-Semitic remarks by Billoo led to her removal as a keynote speaker at San Mateo County's RISE 2022 women's leadership conference. |
| | + | Deek's outward praise for terrorist organizations fits into a broader pattern of strident and vitriolic hatred towards Israel.</blockquote></ref> |
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| | ==Jihadist John Allen Muhammad & CAIR's propaganda== | | ==Jihadist John Allen Muhammad & CAIR's propaganda== |