The woke takeover was accomplished by first establishing cancel culture and accepting restrictions on speech that are imposed by Islamic supremacists via “diversity” and “anti-racism” programs. Woke Virginia board member Abrar Omeish, with “radical Islamic terror” associations herself (as is pointed out in the article below), is repeating a toxic, divisive message that is dividing America and other free societies. It needs to stop, while Islamic jihad needs to be taught about, including how its exponents and enablers deceptively trick societies into subversion.
Omeish’s influence is strong in her area. According to a 2019 report:
Abrar Omeish made history …..as both the youngest woman and first Muslim woman to hold elected office in Virginia’s history.
“Abrar’s campaign worked hard to elevate young voices and those of underserved and underrepresented communities, proactively reaching out to constituencies who have otherwise not been engaged by registering 1,500 new voters and training hundreds of new volunteers,” Omeish’s campaign said in a statement celebrating her victory to an at-large seat.
“She strives towards facilitating a school system that believes fully in the potential of the leader in every child and believes that the investment in that child is worthwhile no matter their race, ethnicity, socioeconomic status, religion, gender, sexual orientation, or immigration status,” the campaign continued.
Based on all appearances, voters couldn’t see what she was up to.
“Woke Virginia school board member who branded Iwo Jima ‘evil’ voted against 9/11 tribute and urged lessons about attacks to avoid using terms ‘radical Islamic terrorism’ and ‘jihadist’ over fears of Islamophobia,” by Lewis Pennock, Daily Mail, March 2, 2023:
A Virginia school board member who stirred controversy for refusing to support a 9/11 tribute also wanted to ban terms like ‘radical Islamic terror’ and ‘jihadists’ from classes about the terror attacks, it has emerged.
Abrar Omeish, 28, said teachers in Fairfax should use a ‘culturally responsive’ guide that doesn’t ‘explore the definition of terrorism’ to inform children about the atrocity.
The guide recommended by Omeish in 2021 said the word terrorism is ‘often used in a biased manner’ and classes about the September 11 attacks, which claimed the lives of 2,977 victims, should focus on the impact on ‘communities of color, including Muslim Americans’.
Omeish, who in 2021 declined to support a commemoration of 9/11 victims, is the youngest Muslim woman in Virginia to hold elected office. Details of the lesson plan have emerged just days after she stated America’s victory over the Japanese in the Battle of Iwo Jima in World War II showed what ‘human evil is capable of’.
Those comments were made last Thursday in reference to the Day of Remembrance, a day of observance for the internment of Japanese Americans during World War II. It occurs on the same calendar day as the first US landings on the island of Iwo Jima on February 19, 1945.
A Republican official in Fairfax told Fox News: ‘Her cruel attacks on the memory of 9/11’s victims and heroes should be the last straw. They were not just incredibly tone deaf — they were vicious and, frankly, anti-American.’
Another recommendation in the teaching guide, published by the Family and Youth Institute, said teachers should ‘wear cultural items from Muslim countries as a show of support’, like scarves, while teaching about 9/11.
Teachers are also encouraged to use the term ‘endless wars’ about conflicts in countries like Iraq and Afghanistan. Astonishingly the guide claims such conflicts ‘only harm Black and Brown communities’.
Elected into office in 2019 at just 24, Omeish also has a history of anti-Israel rhetoric, and has said that the district’s admissions policy has an anti-Asian bias.
Her father, 55-year-old Esam Omeish, is also a member of the Board of Directors of the the Dar Al-Hijrah mosque where three of the 9/11 hijackers had prayed before carrying out the attacks.
Esam is the chief of General Surgery at Inova Alexandria Hospital, and former President of the Muslim American Society (MAS).
The mosque previously employed a man suspected of working with Al-Qaeda. That man, Anwar al-Awlaki, was killed by a US government drone strike, ordered by President Barack Obama, in 2011.
When she voted against the 9/11 tribute last year, Omeish said it would cause ‘harm’ because it didn’t ‘recognize the extensive and unwarranted structural discrimination and ethnic and religious profiling following 9/11’…..
PRCS says
ban term ‘radical Islamic terror
It’s a stupid term and it should be dumped.
How, exactly, do run-of-the-mill Islamic terrorists differ from “radical Islamic terrorists”?
Taking this one step further, which headline would be more accurate and honest: “Radical Islamic terrorists blew up a church in Southern Nigeria” or Muslims blew up a church in Southern Nigeria?
bill carr says
Iwo Jima happened over 3/4 of a century ago, I doubt she know anything about it. What was evil about Iwo Jima and all the other island battles was the decision by the Japanese war cabinet to sacrifice the lives of their young men to no purpose. It only delayed the outcome and was futile. Just as Hilter’s generals kept on fighting to the bitter end when it was clear they could no longer win the war.
PMK says
The term should be dumped and replaced with a more inclusive one. What they do is not radical in any way. Go back to its origins and everything these terrorists do is found in the Qur’an. So lets call it Qur’anic Terrorism.
Northern Virginiastan says
Hi Christine,
Fairfax County, where I live, is a deep blue county near Washington, DC. I am ashamed to say that Abrar Omeish was the second top vote getter for an at-large seat on the Fairfax County Public Schools board.
Abrar’s father Esam Omeish ran in the Democratic primary for a seat in the House of Delegates
– in my district! He placed 3rd out of 4 candidates, with 16% of the vote. As Robert noted, if Dr. Omeish could get 16% of the vote, imagine how much many more votes a stealthier jihadist candidate could garner.
I usually want to crash after work. Even though I was tired and there was driving rain, I made damned sure that I’d vote agains him in the primary.
࿗Infidel࿘ says
NV
I live next door, in Loudoun county. Despite that county being one of the major battlegrounds in the LGBTQIA+ grooming in the last few years, most of the Dems held their seats in the elections 2 years ago: it’s only the ones west of Leesburg who were Republican. I think this area is lost, and Virginia should just cede it to Maryland if they want to remain a red state
somehistory says
She “wants”….she “demands”….because she “wants” the Truth to be hidden from the kids; and she wants islam to be celebrated by those who have authority over the children, so the kids will not realize just how evil, how unholy, how demonic, islam truly is and what mozlums have in mind for all who oppose them.
mozlums don’t get elected for the usual reasons people run for office. mozlums want to make everything in society, in every city, town, corner of the earth, comport with their evil thought processes that are formed by the book of evil, demonic, unholy filth.
The citizens should have her recalled…removed….sent packing.
dazzleme says
She can go straight to h3ll. Who is she to decide anything about this country.
࿗Infidel࿘ says
Even if one disagrees w/ some of the things President FDR did to get the US into war, bypassing public opinion, or the internment of Japanese-Americans and their villification for decades, that line of criticism is completely different from anything ‘islamophobic’ – real or imagined – that either the US governments or American citizens have supposedly done
JimJFox says
Even if one disagrees w/ some of the things President FDR did to get the US into war, bypassing public opinion…
WTF are you claiming? FDR ordered the Pearl Harbour atrocity? Or colluded with the Japanese?
Sometimes I wonder about the state of mind of some here.
࿗Infidel࿘ says
What I am claiming is that since US public opinion was strongly against going to war, FDR implemented a blockade of Japan, cutting off not only oil, but food as well. That in fact is an act of war against any country, and provoked them. One can be opposed to Japanese expansionist conquests in the Pacific, but still notice how FDR decided to bypass public opinion and do things that would force us into a war
Once the war started, atrocities happened. As Rush Limbaugh once said years ago, “There are no such things as ‘war atrocities’: war itself is an atrocity”. The thing I’m critical of is not what happened during the Pacific Theater War, but what happened in the run-up to it
Hesham Shehab says
https://www.meforum.org/islamist-watch/60532/a-tale-of-two-terror-linked-families
Hesham Shehab says
Please see my article on Omeish: A Tale of Two Terror-Linked Families
by Hesham Shehab
American Thinker
March 4, 2020
https://www.meforum.org/islamist-watch/60532/a-tale-of-two-terror-linked-families
PRCS says
Yes indeed, the apple doesn’t fall far from the tree.
Too many Muslims–to whom Islamic law reigns supreme over our secular, man-made laws–have been elected/reelected as lawmakers.
She’s one of them.
With few exceptions, there aren’t enough Muslims to elect them alone. Useful idiots have played their part in that.
dazzleme says
PRCS +1
wpm says
True woke useful idiots like the people who voted for Biden and brain damage Fetterman live in every state. They vote for the democratic no matter what, more so if the person running checks many “inclusive ” boxes. The democratic party is quickly moving from the party of the KKK in the 1920s south to the party that will back Sharia law in the near future as the rule of the land.
dazzleme says
wpm I agree and that’s really sad, our country is coming to that though.
Jim says
Teachers need to teach the truth about various ideologies and religions and not simply whitewash them, because we should respect other peoples’s beliefs. And having an advocate for one of them does not meet this need.
AN says
So how long shall we discuss Islam in America in a passive manner in this forum, while the cancer metastatizes unabated? Robert Spencer, David Wood, Bridgit Gabrielle, Pamela Gellar and many are doing their best to caution rank and file Americans. But it is not working. Islam is marching on in America. I am worried. We must take it to the street. Ask politicians straight questions. Organize meeting and rallies. Vote republican or who ever recognizes and oppose the danger of Islam in America. Otherwise, we can defeat China, defeat Russia, defeat bad economy, infation, but cannot defeat the enemy within! Let us work before it is too late.
dazzleme says
AN -Absolutely
Northern Virginiastan says
More about Abrar Omeish’s shenanigans, this time to obstruct Ayaan Hirsi Ali from speaking at Yale:
OMEISH: On MSA’s letter, https://yaledailynews.com/blog/2014/09/15/omeish-on-msas-letter/. The whole story stinks.