My latest in PJ Media:
Basheer Jones is a Cleveland city councilman and a candidate for mayor of Cleveland in the upcoming September 14 primary election. He is also unusually forthright, even for a twenty-first-century Democratic politician, about his contempt for the land in which he seeks elected office.
Jones is a devout, observant Muslim, and already, according to CleveScene, his “personal religious beliefs and organizational ties have become linked with his campaign. Jones made a number of questionable campaign expenditures in 2020 to international Muslim organizations and figures, including expenses likely related to his December travels in Egypt and the sponsorship of a Muslim orphanage there and a Quranic school in Senegal.”
What’s more, “a recent controversial video shows Jones saying, ‘women are not our leaders.’” Jones, like Muslim spokesmen all over the Western world when confronted with statements that are politically inconvenient, insists that his words were “taken out of context.”
But that is not remotely the worst of it. On Sunday, the RAIR Foundation published an exposé on Jones that contained audio of Jones speaking on January 3, 2016, and making fun of Muslim immigrants who were thankful to be in the United States, and recited the Pledge of Allegiance.
“Before 9/11,” Jones asserts, “our people, our brothers and sisters from the immigrant communities, like, ‘America is a great place. Oh, it’s the land of the free, home of the brave.’ You’d see the imams, big imams, on the stage, singin’, you know.” Here the crowd starts to laugh softly; Jones chuckles a bit along with them and continues: “‘I pledge allegiance to the flag,’ you know, ‘this is the greatest place in the world.’ And we were tellin’ you, ‘Ah, no it’s not. Ah, we know about this place. This place, we know, we know that guy, somethin’ about him.’ And then 9/11 hit. Everybody started comin’ to us. ‘Brothers, please, come, come march with us, stand –’ Brother, we been tellin’ you, that they’ll change on you just like that, man.”’
Jones was apparently referring to American authorities supposedly turning on Muslim communities after 9/11 and subjecting them to “Islamophobic” counter-terror measures. In any case, his contempt for the grateful immigrants, and I-told-you-so implication that he had somehow been vindicated after 9/11, when America proved to be not so great a place after all, ought to have raised eyebrows among those who backed Jones for Cleveland City Council and are now supporting his mayoral ambitions.
There is no indication, however, that anyone was concerned in the slightest with their candidate’s anti-Americanism. We are, after all, talking about the Democratic Party. This is the party that stood by and did nothing when Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Kabul) tweeted: “We must have the same level of accountability and justice for all victims of crimes against humanity. We have seen unthinkable atrocities committed by the U.S., Hamas, Israel, Afghanistan, and the Taliban. I asked [Secretary of State Antony Blinken] where people are supposed to go for justice.”
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mortimer says
Why not find out all the people who despise the United States of America and offer them all a free one-way ticket to any other country. The proviso must be that they never return even to visit the US.
Anyone who votes for Basheer Jones is asking for a few years of high crime and flight of capital from Cleveland. When the jihadists move in, the entrepreneurs will move out and crime will go up through the roof.
Don’t people know that. Just look at what happened to the city of London after a jihadist lawyer became the mayor! Higher amounts of crime. Higher amounts of Islamic terrorism.
gravenimage says
+1
maria says
Yes but these people must be found quickly and this basheer Jones(probably convert to islam and black should not be allowed to candidate tobe Mayor, but indicted for hatred of the US and jailed. He is a danger to the US
mortimer says
His political views although hateful, stupid and absurd are not illegal as long as he does not openly solicit the overthrow of the US constitution.
A US mayor takes this oath: “”I do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I am duly qualified, according to the constitution of this state, to exercise the duties of the office to which I have been elected and that I will, to the best of my ability, discharge the duties thereof, and preserve, protect, and defend the Constitution of this state and of the United States …”
gravenimage says
No devout Muslim will act to defend the Constitution–but few Infidels know this.
bill says
This not quite apropos but relevant. Remember a while back, the BLM leaders were telling us how superior the brown race was over the ‘decadent’ whites? I just read an article in the Spectator 31st July by Andrew Kenny writing about S Africa since the end of apartheid in1994, when the economy was the strongest in Africa. It is very revealing and pertinent, as the BLM mob was telling us to “burn it down”, referring to the US system.
The article is not racist and of course there are millions of decent people in S.A, but that is what in effect has happened in the country. It is too long to repost here but I recommend everyone who can, to read it.
gravenimage says
I believe this is the article, bill:
https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/the-real-reasons-for-south-africas-riots
Just sad.
Diane Harvey says
“Jones is a devout, observant Muslim’
That alone should give any responsible person the willies.
mortimer says
Yes, a ‘devout’ Muslim is one who seeks to behave like Mohammed, a caravan robber, a slave trader, a misogynist, a genocidist, a warlord.
A very, very devout Muslim will behave like the late Caliph Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi who self-consciously behaved like Mohammed 24-hours a day.
gravenimage says
+1
Jim says
It is not funny. People do vote for such candidates. That is how Joe won the fair and free election. Or Ilhan Omar or all the other patriotic anti-Americans that take power. And in other countries, such as Trudeau in Canada. They may seem bad to conservatives, but that does not mean they would not be elected. The ways of voters are mysterious.
Keith O says
Know what yo mean Jim, Somehow we got Scott Morrison here in Australia.
He’s so bad that people are starting to call him “scroto”.
gravenimage says
Several Muslims have been elected here in the US already–and is it worse in Britain. Definitely a real concern.
Kagman says
You can be George Soros will be all over this one…. He could find no greater hater of America than this treasonous toad…. Exactly what Soros is looking for.
Kagman says
With Cleveland’s huge African American community, this guy is a shoe-in…. In their view, the more hate, the better…
Count on it..
gravenimage says
There are at least four other candidates for mayor of Cleveland who are African-American.
Keith O says
If Jones and his ilk hate America so much, then they can all F*#k off back to whatever hell hole they crawled out of.
gravenimage says
I wish they would–but Muslims intend to conquer the whole world.
gravenimage says
Basheer Jones Hates America. He Wants to Be Mayor of Cleveland.
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Yes, he does. He is involved with Jihad terrorists, sneers at the victims of 9/11, and is a complete misogynist.
You know you are in trouble when Communist Dennis Kucinich looks good (and yes, he is running for mayor of Cleveland again).
Johnny B says
It’s a strange phenomenon. The more you despise your own country and everything it represents the more successful you become. You just don’t see anyone expressing how much they love their country and praise it if they want to make it in politics today. That’s not entirely true though, here in my own country, Denmark, there are actually a couple of women who love their country with more guts than any of the men in the Danish political system. They want to completely halt immigration and drastically shrink our monstrous government system and are probably the most demonized politicians here at the moment. I really admire them and it gives me a little hope for the future of my country.
gravenimage says
You are right–patriotism for civilized western nations is all too rare these days.
Bikinis not Burkas says
The Muslims are patriotic to the MURDEROUS IDEOLOGY of ISLAM!
Keep your eyes open to keep your head on!
gravenimage says
+1
Clifford Fodor says
“Basheer Jones Hates America. He Wants to Be Mayor of Cleveland.”
That’s nothing. Obama sat in church of a pastor who said, ‘God damn America.’ for 20 years. Obama went on to become president of the United State.
gravenimage says
Spot on, Clifford.
Bikinis not Burkas says
Everyone that runs for any elected office should be forced to swear and sign a statement saying “I do not support the MURDEROUS IDEOLOGY of ISLAM!
Giacomo Latta says
Correct me if I’m wrong but up till now the Democratic Party has only happily allowed female muslims such as Omar, Tlaib, et al, to spout off without Party supervision. Now that it’s a male is it going to tell him to tone down with the misogyny and other muslim practices?
gravenimage says
Giacomo, Muslims Keith Ellison and André Carson predated Ilhan Omar and Rashida Tlaib by over 10 years. Ellison has been accused of domestic abuse by an ex-girlfriend–not sure about Carson. Of course, their maintaining their Infidel names makes them lower profile.
OLD GUY says
Sorry to say it is a big mistake to elect muslim/islamic individuals to public office, they will always push the islamic sharia over American constitutional law. And in many cases these islamic candidates hate America and want to destroy our freedom. Don’t vote for Basheer Jones he is just another islamic soldier wanting to take our freedoms away.
faraway says
…and pillage our prosperity and turn our countries into islamic hell-holes so they feel more at home.