Thread by @samwestrop

Here's the gist of this deeply unsettling story in a thread:

1. Ahmed Taha, a deeply unpleasant radical activist who has republished text calling for the killing of Jews, is appointed to an anti-racism taskforce in Champaign Illinois…

dailywire.com/news/49790/wes…

2. Along with lots of examples of anti-Semitism, he’s also a key figure in the Muslim American Society (MAS). You might remember, in May, MAS’s Philadelphia branch paraded some children singing about their desire to kill and torture Jews.

3. It seems no one bothered to do the slightest of google searches about Ahmed Taha and his long history of hateful rhetoric and involvement in extremist causes.

4. We asked the city whether they knew about his extremism. Their response? No comment.

5. When we contacted the local journalist who had written a fawning profile of Taha, he refused to investigate on the grounds that we, the messengers, were “racist”

6. How have we got to the point where journalists and politicians openly embrace someone who republished violent rhetoric against a minority because it suits a ‘progressive’ political agenda? This is madness.